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Poem-a-thon Sheffield

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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Today is an auspicious day indeed; my blog is 4 years old 🙂

I have just signed up to the Sheffield Poem-a-thon which is taking place in Sheffield on 2nd April. Local poets are reading in relay, each taking 8 minute time slots, to read poems of their choice. The money raised will go towards Assist Sheffield, a fabulous charity working with refugees and asylum seekers in Sheffield.

ASSIST who support refused asylum seekers here in the city of Sheffield.  These asylum seekers are not allowed to work, to register themselves as homeless or to be placed in local authority night shelters. Many become destitute, struggling daily for food, accommodation and clothing. ASSIST says that:

  • ÂŁ5 could cover expenses for a weekend’s hospitality for an asylum seeker in need of somewhere to sleep
  • ÂŁ17 could cover travel expenses to enable an asylum seeker to get to medical and legal appointments
  • ÂŁ20 could give a vulnerable asylum seeker a week’s ASSISTgrant to enable them to buy some food

If you feel you could help by making a donation, please click the link below to take you to my, Just Giving Page, to see further details or to make a donation. Thank you 🙂

https://www.justgiving.com/Alex-Carr-Malcolm-Poet

Thank you to the 60 authors who participated in our SAME NAME Poetry and Prose Series

14 Sunday Feb 2016

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We extend our gratitude to the 60 writers who participated in our SAME NAME Poetry & Prose Series, which ran from Jan. 16-Feb. 13, 2016. Many thanks to the following authors for a fun and engaging series!

Daisy Bala (Wisconsin)
Rose Mary Boehm (Peru)
Cathy Bore (England)
Cathy Bryant (England)
Jane Burn (England)
Abbie Burrow (Georgia)
Jacalyn Carley (Germany)
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm (England)
Tricia Marcella Cimera (Illinois)
Joan Colby (Illinois)
Crystal Cook (U.S.)
A.B. Cooper (England)
Isobel Cunningham (Canada)
Cullen Downey (Georgia)
Jennifer Finstrom (Illinois)
Vijaya Gowrisankar (India)
Torrin A. Greathouse (California)
Geosi Gyasi (Ghana)
Tina Hacker (Kansas)
Stephanie Barbé Hammer (Washington)
Patrick Cabello Hansel (Minnesota)
Françoise Harvey (England)
Jennifer Hernandez (Minnesota)
Veronica Hosking (Arizona)
Mark Hudson (Illinois)
Nina Johnson (Indiana)
Brent Jones (Japan)
Mary Kendall (North Carolina)
Sofia Kioroglou (Greece)
Jacqueline Kirkpatrick (New York)
Jennifer Lagier (California)
Joan Leotta (North Carolina)
Betsy Mars (California)
Patrick Lee Marshall (Texas)
Danielle Matthews…

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Night Star

12 Friday Feb 2016

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It has been an intense start to 2016 with the loss of many fine people. I wrote this poem for the 30th anniversary of the death of Phil Lynott. This poem is not only for the celebrities, let us not forget that everyday people are losing loved ones.

Roseberry Hare

When you left,

you took us all with you,

the old, the young,

the Saints and the Sinners.

A gaping chasm,

left in your wake.

Three decades of grief,

the tides of loss,

your fall from grace,

as you plummeted us all,

into oblivion.

Yet – you shine brighter,

and more fierce,

than any star,

I’ve ever seen.

 

© Night Star

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm 03.04.15

Picture Credit : This picture is by one of my favourite artists Janice Foley (click on her name to visit her page). She also has a facebook page The Roseberry Hare – (click on the link to visit the page where you can buy her beautiful artwork).

Poetry Stanza Sheffield

04 Thursday Feb 2016

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What an exciting week. This week I went to the first meet of the Sheffield Poetry Stanza group. I met some very inspirational poets and look forward to future meetings.

1st Stanza group meeting 1.2.16

Alexandra David-NĂ©el, poem by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm (SAME NAME Poetry and Prose Series)

01 Monday Feb 2016

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This is one of my poems. Thank you Silver Birch Press 🙂

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Carr-MalcolmAlexandra David-NĂ©el
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

We walked the same walk, along the same path,
the middle one, showing the way.
Travelled beyond the stars, to a life without bars,
no run-of-the-mill protégée.

An affinity to trees, writing anarchist treatise,
both maternally shunned in our prime.
You travelled the world, whilst I stayed at home,
both women misplaced out of time.

Born ninety-seven years and one day before me,
we share more than a Scorpius sting.
Through our Buddhist eyes, we gazed on the world,
with opera and poetry we sing.

PHOTO: (Left) Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, aged 19; (right) Alexandra David-Néel, 19th Century.

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Alexandra David-Néel was a colourful character who was born on 24th October 1868. She was a Belgian-French explorer, opera singer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist, and writer. Not only did she meet the 13th Dalai-Lama, but she also managed to visit Tibet when entry to Tibet…

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