Category: poetry reading

Poetry Reading: A Single Atom, by Ivor Steven

Performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss

Get to know the poet:

  What is the theme of your poem?

The poem is about my turmoil of thoughts and doubts, between my recently departed wife, and my starting up of a new relationship.

What motivated you to write this poem?

Lots of bad dreams and guilt.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve been writing poetry for twenty-two years, although I’ve only been going public with my writings for the last eight years.

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

I’d love to have dinner with Leonard Cohen.

What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

The curiousity factor of listening to my words being articulated by some-one else, and to have my poem heard by the large audience of Poetry Festival’s readers.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Basically I only write poems, however I have written a few short stories.

What is your passion in life?

I’m an Australian, and my main passion is to travel to Canada and America, and visit family/relatives

Read Poetry: 737, by Mpumie Masemola

Burn the turmoil inside of me
Sip me in the dark
Eat the holes that are hiding me
Let me fall apart
Beckon the words that throttle me still
Hold my anxiety still
Shine your light upon my peril
And burn it in your name
Shine your light upon my peril
And burn it in your flame

Attached artwork is called JupiterSaturn by yours truly @ringsroundthe on twitter 🐦


Genre : Angry, Cocky, Dark, Death, Family, Fear, Friendship, Hope, Hurt, Inspirational, Life, Love, Motivational, Painful, Personality, Philosophical, Political, Pressure, Redemption, Relationships, Religion, Revenge, Rhyme, Romantic, Sad, Sexy, Society, Work.

 

 

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Watch the SEPTEMBER 2017 Poetry Readings

Performed by Val Cole & Laura Kyswaty

Poetry Reading: Morning by, Vihang A Naik

Poetry Reading: Isadore Greely’s Place, by DE Navarro

Poetry Reading: Blue Remembered Hills by Cas Greenfield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read Poetry: Terrain Terrific, by Sujoy Bhattacharya

Toughness lightens your voluptuous jaws
with monstrous hunger
to engulf human edifice of excellent creation .
How
could you maintain silky softness behind your stony of
ruthlessness ?
The sky above watches with tears of reprimanding
scolds,
your crafty games you play to toy with the flimsy effort of
human beings-
helpless puppet to the capricious whims of your
restless nature .
Molten saps of petrified dynasties running
through your crevices –
whisper the incantation to revive the
dormant fossils awaiting for quenching its thirst for solar
radiation .
Your crude cajoling for witnessing human molestation
by your retinue ,
confer wooing suffering to earthly beings .
Poets and writers invest
on your infatuating aspects to reap golden crops .
You are a menacing medley of both creation and annihilation.
Your bridal attraction , your enchanting enigma
allure people to attend the
feasting ceremony you arrange to trap your victims .
The sky scolds
you wheedlingly for your crafty devices to caress creatures
to devilish death .
You muse mockingly at the shedding of
crocodile’s tears of the sky for the dying earth .

 

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Poetry Reading: Morning by, Vihang A Naik

Performed by Val Cole

What is the theme of your poem?

I have been always in pursuit of going beyond physical. Going beyond physics. I consider physical body is weak but the spirit is strong. Spiritualism, perhaps can be the theme besides other layers of themes. It may have multiple interpretations. Hermeneutics .

What motivated you to write this poem?

The impulse running underneath the is letting go of physical and realising the spritual.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I have now been writing poetry since more than three decades .

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Dinner reminds me of the last supper. I wish i was with nine disciples of Christ.

What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

To me poetry is performance as well along with reading it out aloud with certain specific rhythm.

And Festival for Poetry has come out with indescribable idea for performance reading my some one who for other field of arts. An actor. It is always exciting to see how your poetry gets performed.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I practice writing poetry in Gujarati language ( my mother tongue ) besides translations I often translate Gujarati language poetry into English language besides my own Gujarati language poetry .

What is your passion in life?

The ultimate passion in life is to be human. I love this life where we are human beings.

Is it not true that when you wake up to see the world and switch on your television and you see all nations torn apart and that centre cannot hold …

Vihang A. Naik 😦 b. 1969 ) Indian poet writing in English.He took to teaching as a profession, serving in colleges since 1996 in Gujarat. He lives and works in Gujarat, India. He can be visited at http://www.vihang.org

Poetry Reading: Blue Remembered Hills by Cas Greenfield

Performed by Laura Kyswaty

 What is the theme of your poem?

The passage of time…

What motivated you to write this poem?

I live as much ‘in the moment’ as I am able and the smallest of events can inspire me – a twig cracking underfoot, the scent of Rosemary as I brush past. The ‘Blue Remembered Hills’ is the place I live.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve ben writing for 60+ years.

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

John Donne (1572 – 1631)

What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

Some of my songs and poems have been performed by other artists and I enjoy a different take on my words, often revealing something I had not discovered myself in my own works.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I am a singer songwriter and Blue Remembered Hills is one of my songs. I am releasing an album in October 2017. I also write novels. And I am a painter.

What is your passion in life?

Words, Music, Art, Love.

Poetry Reading: Isadore Greely’s Place, by DE Navarro

Performed by Val Cole

What is the theme of your poem?

Never prematurely judge things by appearance and always expect the unexpected.

Also, secondarily, it is intended to simply be a scary thriller.

What motivated you to write this poem?

I was doing some genealogy research and found one of our family names to be “Isadore.” Isadore is kind of a spooky name to me, a name you would expect to find in a Transylvania manor. So I pictured this old, isolated manor on a hill with bats and moon glow and all the other “eerie” stuff and was inspired to write a poem about what it might be like for someone’s car to break down on a cold evening way out in the middle of nowhere and they have to take shelter in this old stone manor on the hill that is spooky and creepy, and this guy named Isadore lives there.

How long have you been writing poetry?

47 years

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it would be a lot more fun to have dinner with someone who is alive rather than dead. I’ve had some dates I thought were dead and it wasn’t fun. Ha! Seriously, it would be cool to have dinner with Robert Frost.

What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

Thought it would be cool to have a scary poem performed and that it might be a good promotional tool for my other work, so I went for it.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I write short stories and have three published. I write business and quality of life articles, many have been published. I write articles about managing personal finances for GOBankingRates . com. I write articles about poetry and writing and I write essays about life, the world, society and more. I write science fiction/fantasy stories and am working on a novel. And of course, I write poetry, I have two full collections of poetry published, both have been received very well and I get some great reviews.

What is your passion in life?

Writing stories, poetry and non-fiction works.

CARTLOADS – Poetry Reading by Sue Barnard

Performed by actor Peter-Mark Raphael

Get to know the writer:

What is the theme of your poem?

It’s a light-hearted parody of a very well-known poem: Cargoes by John Masefield. I updated the topic for a modern-day readership.

What motivated you to write this poem?

The idea just came to me out of the blue when I was pushing a shopping cart around a supermarket. By the time I reached the checkout I’d worked out the poem’s basic structure and thought of some of the lines. I had to keep repeating them over and over to myself until I got home and could write them down!

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve dabbled with it for most of my life, but it’s only during the past few years that I’ve started taking my work more seriously.

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Oh gosh, there are so many. But if I had to choose just one, I think it would have to be William Shakespeare. He was a great and prolific writer, and has influenced much of my own work, including two of my novels (see below). I’d love to ask him what he did during the seven years of his life which are unaccounted for, between leaving Stratford-upon-Avon and arriving in London. And I’d also find out once and for all if he spoke with a regional accent!

What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

It felt like a great opportunity, for which I am most grateful. Thank you.

Do you write other works? Scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I’ve written a few short stories which have been published in anthologies, and I’ve also written four novels which are published by Crooked Cat Books. Two of these (The Ghostly Father and The Unkindest Cut of All) are based on works by Shakespeare (respectively Romeo & Juliet and Julius Caesar). The other two are Nice Girls Don’t (a romantic intrigue based on a search for family secrets) and Never on Saturday (a time-slip romance novella based on an old French legend). I currently have two other projects on the go, but they are still in the early stages.

I also do editing work for other writers.

What is your passion in life?

Life itself. It should be lived to the full. Every moment is precious, and will never come again.

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Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson

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