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Favourite Poetry from Showcase(s)? (1 Viewer)

broken_jukebox

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Hey most of you poets would have read or memorised the Showcase Poetry Collections, i was wondering which ones were your favourites???


2001:
24 Impressionist Preludes
Prism
Fresh Meat

2002:
Paper skin
Scattered Peas

2003:
Hawk in a handsaw?
storm in a tea cup
Serious Banter

2004:
What shall we do tomorrow


Rumours that there will be five poetry for 2005???

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My favourite would have to be "Paper Skin" =brilliant, just absoultely definitly not a students work lol. But fantastic, though its very hard to read.

"storm in a tea cup" subtle.

I quite like "Serious Banter and Scattered Peas"

I wish RS were in 2001s... "Prism" very Ani Di Franco (well she did foreword ani)
 

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these lines captured me:
(from memory, so this may not be perfect but i'll try)

i cannot cry
i have chopped onions
and held them to my eyes
and still i cannot

by Attard, Hawk from a Handsaw

-wow!
 

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"Serious Banter" was hot
Tian dealt with serious issues in a humourous way.
and the tricks he/she(?) played on us in 'Eve' were great:
"Then again, I like her behind
the wheel"
and
"My friend likes to dance around
In the garden not wearing much
Sunscreen."
 

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I don't do poetry, but I really like Hawk from a Handsaw, especially the part with the big long sentence...can't remember all of it but the end is

and i just tried to hold him together because we can replace the windows the vases but i just wonder what else is broken
Didn't really have time for the other poetry in 2003. Didn't appeal to me as much at all.
 

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