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Listening to Paint Dry
£9.95
Over 80 poems from the gut, the heart, the street, and National Trust tea rooms.
Paperback - ISBN - 978-1-7385341-8-0
Listening to Paint Dry
By Pip Barlow
Listening to Paint Dry charts the life of a soul sensitive to pathos, to injustice, to the patently ridiculous and the howlingly funny.
Pip Barlow has long been performing his poetry, both as spoken word and song. This comprehensive collection offers readers the chance to experience the full range of his writing, by turns affectionate and angry, rueful and ribald, in his own unflinching voice and in those of the people he feels for.
From ‘I was conceived at Christmas/Nineteen fifty-eight/As the advent bells were ringing/And my folks tempted fate’ to ‘Nought to sixty in sixty years/The bottom is coming up to meet me,’ the poems express not only the life of one man but also the life of much of Britain since the 1960s.
Every step leads to dividing lines
Where painters search for hidden rhymes
Between blue-grey-palette sea and sky
And poets gather words by
Listening to paint dry
A creative springboard.
28 page booklet with 22 colour photographs
ISBN: 978-1-7385341-0-4
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Abandoned Shoe Haiku
By Andrew Gurnett
A book designed as a collection of curious photographs and a series of writing prompts to encourage creativity.
“While walking our dog Jasper every day, I kept noticing abandoned shoes. Often one but sometimes a pair. I could not help but wonder what had happened. Why had the shoes been left there? Forgetfulness? Haste? Clumsiness? Or something more sinister? Of course the dramatic ideas were the ones that stuck with me.”
The images in this short book are a perfect starting point for creative writing, whether that is a short story, a character study, a poem or as the book offers, a haiku. Included with the Abandoned Shoe images is a short guide to writing a haiku, three example haiku verses and a series of questions designed as writing prompts. A great book for teens to adults who want to kickstart their writing.
“I enjoyed the photo prompt - it’s a really atmospheric shot, with the focussed details of the shoe and ivy but enough space in the green around it to let the imagination take over and create what might be in the shadows as well as how it got there.”
- Sarah James, poet and author
