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