All Day Poetry, Art and Performance and Dance Event, SPRING 2015 – This Sunday, March 8th at Embrace Arts, Leicester

If you’re not near Leicester, England this runs the risk of being even more obscure than we normally enjoy being here at P.A.T.H. (This acronym that has not been officially sanctioned by  our corporate “limb”, though – we have more than a few, if you buy a book we’ll have cause to start another limb, making corporate walking very difficult.) We do suppose, however, that you enjoy being more than a little obscure too. A lot of people keep following us wheresoever we go, which would be unnerving in other circumstances but it’s not, it’s lovely and you are absolutely the ticket, and we are very quite fond of you, golden princes and princesses that you are, myseriously clicking “like” buttons and reading even sometimes our most bonkers stuff with your two or more, or one, reading eye(s). Now I’ve buttered you up with strawberry Marmite, here’s the thing that may not be relevant to you…but WAIT! Soon, on March 8th 2015, I am working with choreographer and dancer Louise Katerega for a workshop and performance called “Throw Me A Life Line”, as just one of many brilliant workshops taking place on the day. Here’s the description of our 3pm workshop:

In “Throw Me A Life Line”, led by Poet Peter Buckley and renowned choreographer and dancer Louise Katerega, we will conjure magic from the mundane using energy, memory, and telephony to consider cycles of ending and beginning. We will find poetry in the conversations that might take place in times of change, and transform these into duets of movement. In keeping with the season of Spring, we will be inspired by folk traditions, ritual and rites, and will respond to moods suggested by our jumping-off point, a scene from the film “A Matter of Life and Death”. Participants are asked to bring along a round object if possible.

Here are some question-prompts we will be using for inspiration. Why not try answering one in a comment below or using one as a creative prompt for your own poem or blog? question worksheet pdf

Please do come along, if you can. It will have something to do with telephones.

Here is the schedule for SPRING this Sunday at Embrace Arts:

Here is the schedule for SPRING this Sunday at Embrace Arts – 12 noon to 8 pm

Workshops at 12.30

Alison Dunne supported by Bobba Cass in Hall: The Body – Poetic Monologues
Carol Leeming supported by Marcus Joseph in Studio 1: Dancing the South – Poetic Play of Music and Words
Liz Gray supported by Andrea Giugliano in Studio 3: Feel the Rhythm – Experience Poetry, Rhythm and Movement
Paulo Carnock in Studio 4: Drumming and Chanting

Workshops at 3 pm

Peter Buckley supported by Louise Katerega in Hall: Throw Me A Life Line
Boston supported by Rishii Chowdhury in Studio 1: Beat It with Bossman!
Rob Gee in Studio 3: Comic Term?
Momodou Sallah supported by Paulo Carnock in Studio 4: Poetry as Therapeutic and Poetry as an Instrument of Change

Installation in Cafe / Bar Area: FACT: ion

Performance in Hall at 6 pm. concluding with Mellow Baku

Workshops will last an hour and a half with plenty of time for additional practice including practice in the Hall between 5 and 6 pm

An’ this is just for fun:

A Spontanious Poem

Since we began,
the bluebells knew to be themselves
as they were gathered
in communal bunches.

After we talked,
I walked to the end of the sea.

In the woods,
I wandered,
a dress to sweep painted flowers.

It didn’t matter who I was,
it was always more about
the flowers to you.

In a wide arc,
I would learn to paint more gently,
into sleep.

The sweep of bluebells
that sprung up,
in a warm Spring.

£5.00 + £1.00 postage

Hello,

Our workshop at the SPRING! event on the 24th was such a great, exciting day with a staggering array of ideas, inspirations, and acts of poetry swirling around. It was great to meet so many new people in a room with such energy and creativity! I must thank my lovely, awesome superheroes for joining me for my first workshop, and my friend Bobba and everyone involved in bringing us together.

Now, to celebrate our success in creating and becoming superheroes, I have a limited number of copies of my book, Peter And The Hare’s Fireside Companion at the special SPRING! price of:

Click Buy Now to purchase a copy of “Peter And The Hare’s Fireside Companion” via PayPal.

Also available on Lulu

Amazon.com (US) and Amazon.co.uk (UK)

And also very occasionally available on eBay

More information about this, my first illustrated collection of poems and stories, can be found here.

I will package your order brilliantly and send it promptly.

This way one can avoid both the extortionate postage costs of Lulu and the inflated price of Amazon. You can pay securely via the trusted and widely used PayPal platform in a snap. PayPal, as you may know is the same payment method used on eBay and numerous popular on-line stores, so many of you will be already familiar with its use. What’s more, you don’t need an existing PayPal customer account to make a purchase.

I’ve sourced the books directly myself and you would be buying from me directly, through the PayPal platform. This may well become a permanent solution to make things cheaper and easier for my readers.

We had a few unforeseeable hiccups at my book stall at the event, so I hope this will make up for it, and that those of you who couldn’t purchase a copy at SPRING! and were hoping to, will be able to take advantage of the reduced price here.