Ashleylister
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A Dead Good Blog
http://deadgoodpoets.blogspot.co.uk/
A group of poets from Blackpool, Lancashire, discussing poetry, inspiration and writing in general.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2023 )
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Water Falls
There's sure been a lot of water falling in these parts recently. Everyday, so it seems, arrives grey and wet. I know it's partly seasonal and to do with... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Waterfalls
As you might imagine when I am hillwalking I come across many waterfalls. Some are stupendous like the Grey Mare's Tail near Moffat...others might just be a... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Waterfall
If you promise not to tell anyone I’d like to take you on a walk to one of the hidden gems of an area between Preston and Blackburn, an area not known for... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Magazine
Anybody who knows a smattering of French might hazard a guess that our word magazine has got 'magasin ' (shop or store) somewhere in its ancestry, and they'd... Read more
Posted on 10 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Magazines
From my young days as a child visiting a makeshift chest clinic in a terraced house on Walton’s Parade’ in Preston clutching the latest copy of ‘Sunny... Read more
Posted on 10 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Magazines: Creative Inspiration
Several years ago I was gifted a carload of National Geographic magazines. For nearly a decade I have cut them up incorporating bits into my own collages. I hav... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Poetry Magazines, Past and Present
Poetry magazines. I've subscribed to a few over the years and I've always been a sucker for any I found in charity shops. Then, one day, somebody passed a pile... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Magazines
I think it was a Saturday morning, after getting my pocket money, that I would be straight down to the newsagent to get the latest issue of my favourite... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Magazines - A Learning Curve
My first magazine was Look and Learn when I was still at infant school. My father bought it for me because I was captivated by a story my school teacher read... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
We Are Not Amused!
This is going to be a bundle of laughs! Whoever picked the topic? As an act of kindness, I'll keep it short. The end.unamusing family portraitI'm only kidding,... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
I Did It My Way
Just recently I received a text from my oldest friend. We met at the age of eleven, sixty years ago. There’s nothing unusual about receiving a text from this... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lancashire Dead Good Poets' March Open Mic Night
This month's online event. Meteorological winter is over (apparently). Sunny Side Up is the non-compulsory theme and there are twenty 5 minute slots on offer.... Read more
Posted on 01 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
We Are Not Amused
In 1877 The New York Times reported that US Senator Roscoe Conkling poked fun at President Rutherford B. Hayes for using the word ‘We’ in speeches. Read more
Posted on 28 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
We Are Not Amused - Let's Have A Laugh
The comment “We are not amused” is widely believed to have been said by Queen Victoria in response to an inappropriate joke or remark made by an equerry. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Blackout!
Blackout Poetry it is then! I'd not tried this technique before, though my fellow Dead Good blogger Kate has made a strong case for it. Read more
Posted on 25 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Blackout Poetry: Creative Development
I enjoy writing poetry and making visual art with found things and thus it is a bit surprising that I only discovered blackout poetry in 2023. Read more
Posted on 23 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Blackout Poetry
Dr. Johnson found them 'ingenious and diverting'; Horace Walpole wrote to a friend that he had 'laughed over them till he cried'; Oliver Goldsmith is reported t... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Omg!
From a Radio Four religious affairs programme about women in the priesthood* -Interviewer: Have you always had the ambition to join the church and become a... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
God
There is zero chance of me getting into an argument about which God is the true one nowadays. So, I’m going to have a look at two references to God. One new... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
God - Keeping My Faith
I believe in God. I don’t know what God looks like and I wouldn’t know where to start to guess. God’s appearance is not important, it’s the sense of being I... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION