Hello everyone
As we talked about in our last newsletter this month I poetry TV will be launching our poe-tography competition. This competition is the start of our mission to create new and exciting work by fusing poetry with a range of multimedia.
This competition tasks you with combining two of our favourite art works here at I poetry TV, Photography and Haikus. What we want is for you to take a great photo on a theme of your choosing and write a traditional haiku (three lines of 5,7,5 syllables respectively) to go with it.
How To Enter
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Each entry must be one photograph with a haiku underneath it into a Microsoft word document (or a document that is compatible with Microsoft word)
To enter attach submissions to an e-mail with the subject line:
Poe-tography Competition
Include in the e-mail your name and mobile number (if you do not consent to us keeping your mobile number after the competition closes please mention this in the e-mail).
Send this e-mail with your entries attached to
submissions@ipoetrycompeti
Once your entries have been received we will send you a confirmation asking you to pay the entry fee. Once you have paid the entry fee your submissions will be entered into the competition and you will be eligible for one of three cash prizes.
(Note: Even though the competition is open to anyone from any country all poems must be submitted in English)
Fees
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£5.00 for one poem/photo combination
£7.50 for up to three poem/photo combinations (that’s just £2.50 for each submission)
£10.00 for up to ten poem/photo combinations (that’s just £1.00 for each submission)
(There is maximum of ten poem/photo combinations per e-mail address)
(Note: fees are presented here in Great British pounds but the competition is open to anyone from any country. Payments from any country can be accepted, for exact fees in your country apply current exchange rates)
(Note: proceeds from this competition will go towards helping us provide our live and online workshops for you)
Prizes
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As we’ve been saying there are cash prizes up for grabs:
1st Prize: £200
2nd Prize: £50
3rd Prize £25
(Or converted equivalent in your local currency)
(Note: each person can only win one prize no matter how many entries are submitted however more entries will increase your chances of winning)
The closing date for the competition is 15th of March 2010
The winner will be announced on the 15th of April 2010
So good luck we looked forward to seeing some wonderful work
Poetic thought of the month
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The Poetic thought for this month comes from SRI WINTALA ACHMAD (Gunung Gamping Indonesia).
The Daytime's Downpour
(Short Letter for Tukoku Kamei)
Under the sky the arousing timpani of thunder
The Rain's gratings were her curving fingers
Playing the violin of defeat
For all dreams about the deteriorating sun
Buried no strewn flowers, but
Sadness the rain played on old tins
Felt by her it was the triangle
Pouring its tears out
From the deepest hurt heart
To twilight where the day
Closing its black screen
Indonesia, 2002-2009
We feel the beauty of this poem stands as testament to the quality of work many of you have been producing
New Year New Profile
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We have been delighted with the response to I poetry TV on facebook. The response has been so good that our facebook profile has nearly reached its limit but fear not, if you still want to be a friend of I poetry TV we have new profile associated with us: so please send all new friend request and suggestions to Brenda Ipoetrytv or follow this link: http://bit.ly/6whHDK
Poetry from around the world
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For this edition of poetry from around the world we thought we go out on a new year’s favourite:
Auld Lang Syne
A Scottish poem believed to be written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294). It is well known in many English-speaking (and other) countries and is often sung to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight.
The song's Scots title may be translated into English literally as "old long since", or more idiomatically, "long long ago" or "days gone by". The phrase "Auld Lang Syne" is also used in similar poems by Robert Ayton (1570–1638), Allan Ramsay (1686–1757), and James Watson (1711) as well as older folk songs predating Burns.
Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, “The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man". Some of the lyrics were indeed "collected" rather than composed by the poet; the ballad "Old Long Syne" printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns' later poem, and is almost certainly derived from the same "old song". It is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of the poem to Burns himself.
There is some doubt as to whether the melody used today is the same one Burns originally intended, but it is widely used both in Scotland and in the rest of the world.
And with that we will say good bye to 2009 and hope that you will all enter our competition and continue to support us in 2010.
Now lets all ring in the New Year together with Robert Burns classic
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
and surely I’ll buy mine !
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine† ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give us a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
SEE YOU IN 2010
