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

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