I poetry TV: END OF THE YEAR Newsletter – Cash prizes up for grabs in our Poe – tography competition

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

tions.com

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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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

I Poetry TV -November Newsletter - poetry/photography competition coming next month

We know you have been eagerly awaiting the start of our training workshops. We want to reach everyone whether you’re a visual artist or just a great poet . For this reason, we are launch our first poe-tography (a wonderful combination of poetry and phtography) training workshop in early 2010 to all our members.

In the meantime, I Poetry TV will be launching a first poe-tography competition that we want you all to enter.

Full details will be released next month. Winners of the competition will be reviewed on our website and be awarded cash prizes.

So for now get your thinking caps on.


Poetry from around the world - English poetry

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Its poetry has spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England, or poetry written in the English Language. The earliest surviving English poetry was likely oral or in early versions that haven‘t survived; thus, dating the earliest poetry remains difficult. The earliest surviving manuscripts date from the 10th century. The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. English poetry now.

In the twenty-first century, only a small percentage of the world's native English speakers live in England or are native English speakers. A number of major national poetries, including the American, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and Indian poetry have emerged and developed.

There has also been a growth in interest in women's writing, and in poetry from England's ethnic groupings, especially the West Indian community. Performance poetry has gained popularity, fuelled by the Poetry Slam movement. Poets who emerged in this period include Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion, Craig Raine, Wendy Cope, James Fenton, Blake Morrison, Liz Lochhead, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah.


This weeks poetic thought of the month comes from
Peter Burnell

I have the power to paint a sentence blue
yet i am no artist so what else can i do
i have the power to set emotions rife
to regenerate,assimulate and turn into strife
i have the power to subdue and shock
to humiliate,degenerate and anger unlock
i have the power of emphasision
to intimidate,obliterate with open derision

i have the power to see through pretention
to shun etiquette as a feeble invention
to open you eyes through emphasis of feeling
to put special stress to aid in your dealing
i have the power to cut to the chase
with vulgar expression in a language called base
i cut through formality with he strength of my aim
the greater the strength the greater my claim

i have the power to humble the proud
turn the emporer's new clothes into a shroud
i have the power to play to the masses
to bring forth emotion promoting dark clashes
to exalt false courage to placate your fear
to destroy those standards you hold to so dear
i have the power and on that i swear
for that is the power,the power to dare

The swear word by Peter Burnell

If you would like the chance to feature in the poetic thought of the month please leave a poetic thought in the i Poetry TV group discussion board

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National Poetry Day Live, ipoetryreviews.com and I poetry TV now on twitter

Hello Everyone

On Thursday the 8th of October 2009 I poetry TV attended National poetry day Live at the Royal festival hall and below is a summary from the day:

Why Just About Anyone Can Write and Perform Poetry

The performances at Royal Festival Hall’s (RFH) National Poetry Day Live are resounding proof of this.

When you truly imagine that there is something in it for everyone, then you begin to see the RFH’s National Poetry Day Live as a great and even groundbreaking time for celebrating poetry.

It was a day when Caroline Duffy, the poet laureate, was followed by a host of poets including Lemn Sissay; Selma Hall; Anjan Saha and Lost Luggage; Birmingham’s own Dreadlock Alien; John Headley and Liverpool’s Roger McGough.

For the full review go to our brand new website http://ipoetryreviews.com

But what is ipoetryreviews.com?

Ipoetryreviews.com is a new website brought to you by i poetry TV here you can get news and info on artists and events from poetry, photography, music, art and video. The site also provides users a chance to see products on related subjects which help support the growth of I poetry TV.
So please check out http://ipoetryreviews.com and tell all of your friends.

Poetry From Around the World
This month in Poetry From Around the world we look at modern poetry in Brazil:

Modern poetry in Brazil is no less mysterious than the country itself.
The Iberian Baroque, Italian Arcadianism, French Romanticism, Parnassianism and Symbolism have all have held sway in Brazil over the course of it's history, each manifesting itself in a highly original way.

Around 1922, during the centennial celebrations of Brazil's independence from Portugal, an eclectic group of young writers, poets, artists and musicians, most of them from São Paulo state's coffee-growing high bourgeoisie, came together to promote a Modern Art Week at the São Paulo Municipal Theatre.

The initial movement of Modernism in the 20's introduced into Brazilian poetry a global attitude, incorporating broad cultural interests, irreverence, humour, and free verse. In addition to Oswald de Andrade, some pioneers included Mario de Andrade, Raul Bopp and Luis Aranha. and arguably Brazilian poetry's finest hour, came in the 30's, with the second wave of Modernists. The poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Murilo Mendes, Vinícius de Moraes and Manuel Bandeira, both individually and as a group, were equal to the principal currents of Western Modernism. The high quality of these poets is matched only by their sheer bad luck in having been confined to a readership, not only in their own tongue, but also in their own country, since they are exceedingly little known.

Source – Consulate General of Brazil
http://www.brazilsf.org/culture_poetry_eng.htm


The Poetic thought of the month

The poetic thought of the month for this newsletter comes from Joan McNerney:

Even Goya's portraits are
less intriguing than faces
of frost on my window.

This poem was chosen for it's ability to convey a powerful poetic thought in a small space. Sometimes big things really do come in small packages. I'd like to thank Joan for her contribution.

And Finally

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for up to the minute i Poetry TV news

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Until the next newsletter

I poetry TV

Introducing Poetry From around the World

I Poetry TV Newsletter
Number 2: Sep 2009

Hello everyone
To begin this month’s newsletter I Poetry TV would like to introduce a brand new section. It’s called Poetry from Around the World. Every month we will explore different countries and their poetic heritage.

For our first installment we will take an ancient and mysterious form of poetry. Create an image in your mind, like a photograph, letting nature be your theme. Write three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively and you will have the centuries-old form of Japanese poetry, the Haiku. This is one of ours:

Weather changing how
Autumn left to come again
Winter’s no new pain
© I Poetry TV, 2009

Haikus began as Hokku the opening stanza of an orthodox collaborative linked poem. In the middle of the 17th century Hokku had begun to appear as an individual poem. By the end of the 19th century the Japanese author/poet Masaoka Shiki renamed the standalone Hokku to Haiku. Today, Haikus are written in many languages and have become a well accepted poetic art form around the world.

Make sure you check out next month’s newsletter when we will be diving into poetry from Brazil. If you have any contributions you would like to make please don’t hesitate to let us know.

We are still on the look out for more entries for the poetic thoughts of the month. This month’s thought comes from Jonas McCloud. We would like to thank him for his poem. Check out Jonas’ work below:

my conceptz are contagious
couragously leakin onto pages
seepin thru the ages
like a virus - creepin thru the matrix
breathin as i leap over the fakness
meetin fam - speakin of the latest
spontaneous moves deep in the spaces
and if u kno sun ra, u kno thats where the place is

so im orbitin round the radius
plutoground labourist
fableist lyricist
the butterfly struggles out the crysalis
meticolous motion poetry spoken by the tongue physicist
brilliant like the sun reflected in an amethyst
re-arrangin the everchangin heart beat of an arrythmitist with spirit fists
cloudz represent with truly mythic lips

lyrics sick like a fever
cypha demeanour in this geeza
i give poets n mc's no breather
cos the 1's who make it
r the 1's who r keener

so i move forwards with directional consistency
diction conviction intentional and insistent b
brisk and free in its movement of air - mystikal blow -
on a search to repair and spiritually grow
so i vigourisley flow
for the mighty unseen force and the 1's who kno
coz they r the 1's who r ready to go......

peacenlight
© Jonas McCloud, 2009

We at I Poetry TV thought many of the submissions were worthy of inclusion but Jonas’ work got the edge this month. Please keep them coming as we want to get to know you through your poetry. Alternatively, why not try your hand at something you may not have done before and write a Haiku of your own.

If you want to submit a poem for inclusion in next month’s newsletter please leave it under the poetic thought of the month topic on the discussion board.

We at I Poetry TV are looking to be a springboard for new poetic talent. We want to feature new and exciting poets in our newsletter. If you are interested in taking part in an I Poetry TV interview, e-mail us to request our easy to use interview template at ipoetrytv@googlemail.com, complete it and return it to us. We’ll feature the best interviews in future newsletters.

One final note, to those of you who have responded and told us that you would like to be a part of the future of I Poetry TV; we welcome your requests and will be in touch with each of you personally very shortly. We at I Poetry TV are excited by all the responses and have been putting steps in place to get our workshops/performances off the ground. Initially, they will be hosted in London. But we are keen to go national and international. And from your responses so are you. If you want to be part of I Poetry TV and haven’t already please get in touch. Together we will make it happen.


Until next month’s edition
I Poetry TV

Hello to everyone

I Poetry TV is about to launch its three year programme of training, workshops and productions. I do not want the programme to be big. I want it to be mega. I want to hear your thoughts, your feelings and your ideas. I want to meet and work with as many of you as possible. I have a passion for words and at present I’m doing what I love best working with a group of teenagers some of who like poetry and some who clearly don’t. This group is using poetry and visual images in order to express themselves. I get to journey along their paths through the words they use, the images they create and the thoughts they share. I want I Poetry TV to be involved in more journeys of this nature but I don’t want to go it alone. Post your poems on our wall. Email me your desires. Tell me if you’re interested in taking part in training. Could you see yourself working for I Poetry TV? If so, let me hear from you.

Until next time
Brenda
Creative Director of I Poetry TV

The poetic thought of the month

If I told you
I have taken all the words
In the world and
Sealed them away
For good
You might think of me as crazy
And maybe you should

If I told you 7 million
of us struggle with words today
Yet still it’s not a lost cause
When poetry gets its way

If you would like to feature in the poetic thought of the month, please leave your thoughts under the “Poetic thought of the month” discussion topic.

Would you like to make a career out of being a multimedia poet?

Would you like to inspire others to find their poetic voice?

If yes, to the above, why no get in touch and tell me how: ipoetrytv@googlemail.com