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Six Degrees of Sheffield

21 Friday Apr 2017

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Great city, city of my love,

city of Hendo’s, knives and cutlery,

of Arctic Monkeys, six degrees.

 

The Arts Tower beacon watches over

seven rivers, seven valleys

once clanged with grinding stones.

 

Great city, framed under grey skies,

touring bicycles, freewheeling

rewarded, great city, city of my love.

 

Six Degrees of Sheffield by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

2016

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Cuthbert Bank

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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Ringing the changes supplementing slave wages,

falling down sheds mark an era that’s dead.

Working class men with a tab and a pint,

punching the clock as their bird takes flight.

Banding and tagging the old boys are lagging,

as technology brings the changes to win.

Racing the homer with nothing odd to see,

squab, Ilion song as their ancestors fly free,

smoke grey flight over cooling tower industry,

rambling and racing as the voyageurs dance here.

Northern man’s soul – more than a fancier.

Loftier heights view the world of the skies edge,

new hope in full bloom dispels shadows of old gloom,

bygone Steelers nurturing tomorrow’s youth squeakers,

as they reach for the stars, in plumed aviation

Columbidae class reaches point liberation.

 

© Cuthbert Bank 18.01.2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

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Off The Shelf Festival – Sheffield

12 Saturday Oct 2013

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Please feel free to come along to the event if you are in Sheffield. I will be reading some of my poetry towards the end of the day (2.45pm ish). So please come along and say hello! I have had a shower and I am wearing my lucky socks, so it should be a good day!!

 

 

This year Word Life and Now Then will be hosting the opening event of Off The Shelf Festival Of Words at the Winter Gardens. FREE ENTRY. 
Featuring;

Open Mic as below.

There will be a handful of slots open to people who walk up on the day. First come, first served.

11.30– 12.15

Donna Jones
Julian Dobson
Jude Calvert-Toulmin
Dan Whitaker
James Giddings
Davy Charles
Ian Macgill

12.45-1.30

Imogen Cassels
Kieran Mathers
Vera Fibisian
Karl Riordan
Ben Dorey
Mark Doyle
Tim Plant
Liz Searle

2-2.45

Ian Macgill
Tony Goodwin
Addie Abbott
Kate Garrett
Gemma Perkins
Ben Taylor
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Adele Geraghty
David Turner

Poetry Films.

We’ve been happy to have commissioned the making of almost 30 short films of Sheffield based poets reading their work. From last year’s project ’21 poets for Sheffield’ to this years ‘Distant Lands – The Steel Trail’, we’ll be playing the work of some of our local poets and a few other favourites as well. If you’d like to suggest some please post suggestions on the wall.

Writing Games

We’re going to be running an open running workshop throughout the day which people are encouraged to contribute too. From the collective story (write a line, pass it on) to more specific exercises, there will be space for you to pick up a pen and start writing.

Featured Guests.

We’re also going to be featuring a few of the leading poets from the local scene and a few from further afield.

Also if anyone would like to sell books/leave flyers for other projects there will be a table manned

 

English: Sheffield Winter Gardens, Sheffield, England. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Culture Vulture

20 Thursday Dec 2012

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Karma Milano,

scrawled on a wall,

graffitied in letters,

four foot tall.

 

3:15 throwies,

an homage on bricks,

tag line, street culture,

for Sheffield six.

 

Rastafari!

Lovingly sprayed,

on the wall of a tunnel,

devotion displayed.

 

Gouranga, nostalgia,

for he who dares,

high on a bridge,

black on white squares.

 

Station slam wildstyles,

pigmented praise,

beatification,

now,  let us spray.

 

A spot of heaven,

anarchic art,

a ghost of a shadow,

let us depart.

 

© Culture Vulture 20.12.12

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Sodium Skies

12 Friday Oct 2012

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Sheffield streets,

sodium skies.

Satsuma skin,

sallow sight.

 

© Sodium Skies 12.10.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Photo credit – English: Hagnaby Road, Old Bolingbroke I don’t like the orange street lights and nearly turned all the night shots into greyscale images. Well, if you don’t like the colour, try that for yourself. Looking towards the village cross. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)