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red botinki skip to main skip to sidebar red botinki monday 7 december 2015 the michael marks awards the first telling which i wrote about in an earlier post has won this tremendously generous award and i am reeling with joy it was a splendid and glittery evening a chance to meet everyone else on the shortlist both poets and publishers and i very much enjoyed attending couldn t believe it when my name was listed as the winner and i was delighted in a more sobering way as the first winner of this award was the late elisabeth burns a very fine poet with whom i corresponded when she was suffering from cancer she had seen my article on louis macneice s poem snow which sustained me greatly when i too was ill with cancer the winning of this award brought it home to me how lucky i am still to be here even luckier to be off to greece next year to take up the 2 week residency at the centre for hellenistic studies napflion which is the second part of the award i can t wait posted by red botinki at 09 17 no comments monday 28 september 2015 poetry breakfast at beaton s chester a welcome start to a week in beaton s tearooms chester to gather a group of writers together and share poetry and breakfast for an hour the event was very well supported beaton s breakfast was excellent croissants pains au raisins toasted tea cakes or simple toast and jam lots of tea or coffee and the poems read were very good our theme was city life and we had poems on the good side of city life and the dark side poems about london prague chester and liverpool poems about trains traffic lights bridges and many more an hour s worth of delight for all concerned we also had poems on the city walls provided by julia mcguinness who is soon to launch her first collection about our historic walls on october 21st at alexander s jazzbar we ll be running another event on monday 2nd november when the theme is the zoo chester zoo has just added an elaborate section based on islands of the world and we hope for some poems on this theme but anything to do with zoos zoo animals zoo keepers visitors the human zoo etc will be welcomed www beaton s tearooms co uk julia mcguinness www creativeconnectioncheshire co uk posted by red botinki at 06 07 no comments thursday 23 july 2015 buttons helena nelson has recently posted an article about buttons on her blog at happenstance press she kindly included my poem the wayward button as an example of how buttons can pinpoint a memory it seems from the responses that many people love their old button tins often passed down from grannies or mums i had such a tin once but it annoyed me that all those buttons and i could never find a suitable replacement button in it when i needed one so i gave it to a friend who does craftwork however i did keep a bagful of very beautiful glass buttons which i ll probably never use but i might posted by red botinki at 06 41 no comments sunday 19 july 2015 injury time haven t posted anything lately as i ve been sitting with my leg up on a pillow after falling off a wall it s been too painful to sit and type but things are improving rapidly now and i am hoping to continue my series of reviews of the work of contributors to caboodle prole books very soon i have tweeted occasionally because that s quick been thinking about the word common as a prefix to so many species saw a common footman moth my first the other day and fell in love with its elegant beauty anything but common and since we are losing so much now nothing deserves such a prefix i have a poem considering this question in a forthcoming scholastic publication for children the common newt which will appear in funny poems for children animals in september posted by red botinki at 04 01 no comments monday 18 may 2015 twitter ing did my usual sunday posting of tweets mostly about country things flowers scenes trees quirky things noticed i love wandering round with my camera taking pics of things that delight me and tweeting is my way of sharing these with the world not that the world is very interested but that doesn t matter you can find me on twitter mcevoygill posted by red botinki at 01 39 no comments thursday 7 may 2015 readings i have some readings looming hoorah bradford lit fest 16th may reading with fellow poet novelist mandy sutter at bradford library 2pm i ll be reading a selection of my poetry barnton library cheshire monday 18th may also with mandy sutter as above much wenlock june 11th 9 00am 10 00am guest reader at anna dreda s poetry breakfast tea on the square ledbury poetry festival sunday july 5th 2pm in the panelled room the master s house i ll be reading from the first telling my recent happenstance pamphlet posted by red botinki at 11 27 no comments sunday 3 may 2015 caboodle review part 2 it s the turn of russell jones collection our terraced hum the shortest collection in caboodle consisting of 13 sonnets in her foreword to caboodle angela readman suggests the poems have a slightly voyeuristic quality to them since they are based very much on observations of other people s lives i think i would say they are minutely observed by a poet with a very sharp eye for the goings on of urban lives in the very first poem the poet states i sit watching the lives of others fan whirring reeling in the sweaty cling of life but includes himself in that sweaty cling by using the first person it is our terraced hum not theirs the flat opposite depicts a couple who ve long lost interest in each other the woman goes to take a candle lit bath and when she reappears dressed only in the flowers of white smoke she finds the man busy flicking through tv channels oblivious to her presence though the poet is not he appreciates seeing this goddess through his window voyeuristic perhaps but you get a feeling of lost opportunity an underlying wistfulness in the face of human indifference one to the other jones has a good grasp of country life despite these sonnets having urban settings in the back room an old mirror recalls for the inhabitant a country childhood rich with the smells of strawberries memories of ploughed fields summer bathing with friends it is relegated to the back room while its owner treads the torn beige carpet a clock marking his exit through vast streams of corn larks screeching likewise in garden state we meet someone who surrounds himself with wild flowers who swims in the rainbow of life that surrounds him both poems remarkable for their countryside knowledge in three of the poems there is a strong hint at desire for escape from the urban scene of hot rod bawling down the road gaggles of drunks brotherhood hymns from the football grounds pigeons become angels the reek and fume of the street become a dragon on whose back you could clamber and name your destination above the 100 human hair extension salon reflections on the dog house has a similar yearning where the dogs are tired of the bright and brash streets wanting to escape into a cradle of stars in loft conversion the smoking gallery an ageing man pours a drink and remembers a stag he shot in 37 with the old ghost of his gun his loft dwelling is a haven of eyes in the desert of a blind city as if he were still out hunting as before what he has lost remains in the art of preservation a hoof antlers a tail russell jones language is terse and to the point with a harsh urban overtone that sometimes peels away to reveal the nostalgic beauty of a far off remembered world a short collection but a very fine one posted by red botinki at 11 39 no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers about me red botinki i am a writer chiefly of poetry but in the past i have written fiction and have had a good many short stories and articles published publications uncertain days happenstance press 2006 a sampler happenstance press 2008 forthcoming the plucking shed cinnamon press 2010 view my complete profile sentinel sentinel blog http abegailmorley wordpress com http www alexanderslive com www 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