Tuesday 15 September 2009
EVERY HERO'S PICTURE TELLS A STORY
I still have my digital camera in the box it came in last Christmas, but I'm going to get it out and give it a go, after reading Pam Grant's very accessible articles on digital photography at http://intopics.blogspot.com. She's a wonderful artist (and a secret poet). If you are a photographer or a genius with a mobile phone camera, and you'd like to come help us archive the heroes and poets on National Poetry Day (October 8th, Camden Town Hall, from 2 p.m.) please contact the West Euston Time Bank and let Tony and Urmi know. Telephone: 02073834922
Monday 14 September 2009
Purple Poets' Special Guest - Alan Brownjohn
Wonderful news! The World is A-wash With Heroes!
Alan Brownjohn will be the Purple Poets' special guest at the National Poetry Day 2009 readings of Poems for Heroes on Postcards, at the Camden Town Hall. Colin Shelbourn, Britain's first radio cartoonist, has very generously designed a poster for us.
Marshall Seltzer (founder of Cenlyt Designs) has been a hero as well, spending way too much time of his free time late into the evening helping us set our new home and giving advice about Text Accessibility on the Web.
www.purplepoets.com
The reading at the Camden Town Hall is open to Borough of Camden Poets and Heroes - so send us your Poem on a Postcard, if you'd like to attend.
Speaking of heroes, Jo Cammack's moving documentary The Time Of Their Lives, will have a showing at the Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, this coming Thursday (17th of September). If you haven't seen it, take time to go. It includes footage of my friend Rose Hacker.
I met Rose when she was 100, and just starting her new job as a Camden New Journal columnist. I invited her to be one of the Purple Poets' Honoured Guests at National Poetry Day 2006. The film also follows peace activist Hetty Bower and novelist Alison Selford, over a year of filming at the Mary Feilding Guild Residential Care Home, Highgate. (The film was first shown in the Storyville strand of BBC TV last summer).
www.timeoftheirlives.com
Go to the website to sponsor Hetty's latest walk on September 26th (just a week before her 104th birthday!)
Alan Brownjohn will be the Purple Poets' special guest at the National Poetry Day 2009 readings of Poems for Heroes on Postcards, at the Camden Town Hall. Colin Shelbourn, Britain's first radio cartoonist, has very generously designed a poster for us.
Marshall Seltzer (founder of Cenlyt Designs) has been a hero as well, spending way too much time of his free time late into the evening helping us set our new home and giving advice about Text Accessibility on the Web.
www.purplepoets.com
The reading at the Camden Town Hall is open to Borough of Camden Poets and Heroes - so send us your Poem on a Postcard, if you'd like to attend.
Speaking of heroes, Jo Cammack's moving documentary The Time Of Their Lives, will have a showing at the Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, this coming Thursday (17th of September). If you haven't seen it, take time to go. It includes footage of my friend Rose Hacker.
I met Rose when she was 100, and just starting her new job as a Camden New Journal columnist. I invited her to be one of the Purple Poets' Honoured Guests at National Poetry Day 2006. The film also follows peace activist Hetty Bower and novelist Alison Selford, over a year of filming at the Mary Feilding Guild Residential Care Home, Highgate. (The film was first shown in the Storyville strand of BBC TV last summer).
www.timeoftheirlives.com
Go to the website to sponsor Hetty's latest walk on September 26th (just a week before her 104th birthday!)
Thursday 10 September 2009
National Poetry Day 2009
If you have a hero who lived or worked or died in Camden, write us a poem on a postcard.
Send it by September 25th to:
The Purple Poets
West Euston Time Bank
Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London
NW1 3PL
We will have poets reading their postcard poems to the Mayor of Camden at Camden Town Hall on October 8, between 2.00 and 3.00 p.m. Everyone's postcards will be on display.
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