Today's poet

[freckle]

I've felt the same. I've had a quick read of a posted poem then things have shot on and I've never been back to it. You can't beat the feel of a book to enhance the experience of reading a good poem. Its just not the same on a screen. Plus I like tearing and sticking my post-it note strips to ones I want to go back to.

Thanks Hes, its nice to be here...i agree, it is nice to peruse a book, to feel the pages and slowly digest the words...i also think it is nice to hear poems read although sometimes it can be off putting depending on the reader! I have a copy of a book called Words that Burn that has a CD in the back and the version of Frost's Two Roads Diverged poem is read beautifully...

[Harry H Howgill]

I like that! I keep picking up poetry books and finding pressed leaves or bus tickets marking my favourites...I love the feeling of being taken straight back to a precise moment in time and the feelings that you felt when you last read the poem.

How about printing some FPS bookmarks?

I save postcards, theatre tickets, photos, all sorts, to use as bookmarks for that very reason. It certainly doesn't feel right sticking a post it note into some of the very old books.

[Hes]

Thanks Hes, its nice to be here...i agree, it is nice to peruse a book, to feel the pages and slowly digest the words...i also think it is nice to hear poems read although sometimes it can be off putting depending on the reader! I have a copy of a book called Words that Burn that has a CD in the back and the version of Frost's Two Roads Diverged poem is read beautifully...

That sounds good. A friend of mine once read me a poem over the phone in their soft hebridean accent and it was really lovely.

[Hes]

How about printing some FPS bookmarks?

I save postcards, theatre tickets, photos, all sorts, to use as bookmarks for that very reason. It certainly doesn't feel right sticking a post it note into some of the very old books.

Tell you what...at the fell poets' meet, I'll bring you all some print fragments to use as bookmarks. I sometimes have prints with a small flaws in that I can't sell so I save them and tear pieces off to make cards. They would be nice bookmarks I reckon. I'd better post a poem before Xrunner tells me off for chatting!

[Harry H Howgill]

That sounds good. A friend of mine once read me a poem over the phone in their soft hebridean accent and it was really lovely.

What a nice thing for someone to do. A lovely idea.

[freckle]

That sounds good. A friend of mine once read me a poem over the phone in their soft hebridean accent and it was really lovely.

Now you see this is just a bit off putting even tho he is a great actor...oh and i got the name of the poem wrong but you catch my drift!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzUm0...eature=related

i like the idea of fell poet bookmarks...very much...no pressure!
the other idea i had was a fell poet calendar for 2011, we could divvy up the months and collaborate with poems/art?

[Harry H Howgill]

Tell you what...at the fell poets' meet, I'll bring you all some print fragments to use as bookmarks. I sometimes have prints with a small flaws in that I can't sell so I save them and tear pieces off to make cards. They would be nice bookmarks I reckon. I'd better post a poem before Xrunner tells me off for chatting!

What a brilliant idea. That would be great. I was just thinking that we hadn't written a thing ourselves tonight.

Poets nattering
Is all well and good but there
are fine words to write

[freckle]

Tell you what...at the fell poets' meet, I'll bring you all some print fragments to use as bookmarks. I sometimes have prints with a small flaws in that I can't sell so I save them and tear pieces off to make cards. They would be nice bookmarks I reckon. I'd better post a poem before Xrunner tells me off for chatting!

Oh yes pleeeeeeeeeease!

Poems enriched
by mistaken prints
from wandering star

above just to keep aforementioned happy

[Harry H Howgill]

Now you see this is just a bit off putting even tho he is a great actor...oh and i got the name of the poem wrong but you catch my drift!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzUm0...eature=related

Yes. A fine moustache that I couldn't take my eyes off, but I didn't take in a bloomin' word of what he said!

[Hes]

Now you see this is just a bit off putting even tho he is a great actor...oh and i got the name of the poem wrong but you catch my drift!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzUm0...eature=related

i like the idea of fell poet bookmarks...very much...no pressure!
the other idea i had was a fell poet calendar for 2011, we could divvy up the months and collaborate with poems/art?

That's a great idea! I think between us all it could be really good.

Oh my god! Just listened to the youtube clip....that made me larfff.