This shuffle is getting very slow... hardly here at all these days! Anyway, just a few updates:
The event at Hospitalfield in Arbroath last weekend was loads of fun. I'd started to wonder whether I could still get up and do a poetry "set" as such (because it's been a while and I've been busy with very different activities) but in the end I really enjoyed it, did a mix of poems I'd never done before and got some great feedback. Some closest to me said it was "best I'd ever done" which felt good... and interestingly it didn't make me desperate to go out and do it again (and again, and again). I'm not so good at repetition... I like things to be different every time... and I think that's what makes it exciting for me (I am learning that, in some things at least, I do like excitement... and difference... the unexpected). So that, a few glasses of wine, a responsibility-free night out and the music of Onion Club's Pauline and Stephen and other poetry from Kevin Reid and it was a good experience all round.
Just as well really as I'm off next Sunday (10th March) to do another event in Dundee this time (ADDED LATER - THIS EVENT HAS JUST BEEN CANCELLED).
Gone a bit quiet over on the new blog... any one else got something on hopes and dreams for me?
4 comments:
I like to think that you are too busy doing interesting things to find time to blog Rachel - that is as it should be. Just blog when you feel like it.
Yes, lots going on, Weaver! I only tell blogworld the poetry bits really... well, and maybe the odd other detail!
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Good going, missus! I have yet to do a public reading of any sort! Glad you're back to enjoying it.
Yes, but you do lots of the stuff I don't... enter competitions, send to journals, write prose, write...
I think I've always enjoyed the public side of poetry/performing... just don't ever go looking for it now (for various reasons) and only do it if it comes looking for me. This recent one was a good event too which always helps!
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