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🖋️Poetry Media: Amplifying Midlands Verse🖋️
MD @Think_Write_fly
VF Poetry on Youtube| Why Poetry? Podcast |Family with @PoetryBrum | Alonetogether Podcast

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[Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal @PoetryBrum]

Midlanders: check this out!

[Gregory Leadbetter @GregMLeadbetter]

In case you missed it…

[Casey Bailey @MrCaseyBailey]

Come through!

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OH HAI.

Just to let you know #alonetogether is available on apple podcasts too!

https://t.co/FJAyFQzaJX

if that's your thing.
No judgement 😉

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Oh,
the Inbox at [email protected] is open for Episode 9. Until the 26th of August :)
Record your poems & musings on the theme of HOME. Send the Snippets in. @Think_write_fly will handle the sounds.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

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So [ahem]
#AloneTogether Is back
With more poetry & sounds
in a bite-size chunk
@Think_write_fly doesn't usually do this
but, this is Ep.7: A Nest of Stars.
Titled the collection that landed in his inbox.
and inspired him to make noise again.

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Ep. 7: A Nest of Stars https://t.co/S27873o4aR

[BBC Midlands PR @BBCMidlandsPR]

Annual poetry and spoken word festival #ContainsStrongLanguage - a partnership between @bbcarts, @Coventry2021, @writingwestmids & @NineArchesPress – is in Coventry for the biggest celebration of poetry ever seen in the region.

Book your tickets here: https://t.co/KCuJYMEK9F

[OOIPP FEST @OoippFest]

And that's all folks! Thanks to everyone who performed, presented and came to watch! It's been a big week of poems and hopefully we will see you again next year. All these poets have been amazing! If you have enjoyed the festival why not drop a few £ here: https://t.co/6tqBNuoDrV

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Ep. 7: A Nest of Stars https://t.co/S27873o4aR

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That's It for the Longlist.

Tommorow night @ 6pm
Tune In to see our Winners Showcase on YT.
See the five films that pipped all the others to the Post and Meet the Film makers!

https://t.co/mUj1H7Owzm

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The judges thought it conveyed a deep yearning for touch and was a real transformation.

https://t.co/9ZuBtlK4n3

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Julio Guiao’s setting of Walt Whitman’s poem is wonderful, dark atmospheric and deeply connected to the poetics.

https://t.co/9ZuBtlstvv

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Our final Pick is To A Stranger
by Julio Guiao.

https://t.co/9ZuBtlstvv

This, Powerful edit of Walt Whitman's Poem is a Fave of @Think_write_fly

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Abraham writes: I love the Doris Day version of Again & I feel this piece similarly brings out the beauty of existential dread & expresses a similar sense of the inevitability of the passage of time and the fact that everything shall pass, good or bad.

https://t.co/e4moj7kLik

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The judges thought Abraham Avice’s setting of Shakespeare’s sonnet combined powerful footage with an atmospheric reading.

https://t.co/e4moj7kLik

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Todays Longlist feature is Sonnet Written at the Close of Spring By Abraham Avice

https://t.co/e4moj739TK

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Rick Dove, 43, became the oldest winner of the national poetry slam title with a powerful piece about social injustice and innocence lost.
https://t.co/gHIsWpO438

[Poets & Writers @poetswritersinc]

#FromTheArchive: “I drank a little gin, listened to nineties hip-hop, and I danced as I wrote and rewrote. I broke night with my poems. In other words, you have to hang out with your book,” says @WilliePerdomo in #WritersRecommend. https://t.co/HMGmd0PFJv