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• Living in Dystopia

  

  by Ashley Lister The thing that I always find fascinating about our interpretation of the future is that most of us believe it will be better. To my mind, this... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ever Onward

  Every moment that passes is a new start, the beginning of the Future. But is it mapped out already, or constantly changing with each choice made creating... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 52 Poems in the Future

  As a child the future was something that could be cut out of the Argos catalogue and stuck inside a cardboard dream house. It was wishing to be older so I... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Not in the Now

  Here are some more wonderful insights from the fantastic David Riley.We're the only creatures in the universe with a real humdinger of a sense of the future. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Future

  nouna period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come."we plan on getting married in the near future"adjectiveat a... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Christmas Morning - a Poem

  On Christmas morning On the streetChildren with smiling faces greetAs Santa makes his way back homeTo calculate his Wonga loanThe television's got it wrongOld... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead Good Poetry Show - Live on Air!

  

  on air now!Just a reminder that tonight's edition of the Dead Good Poetry Show will be playing for two hours from 8pm on Fylde Coast Community Radio.Tonight's... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Belated Greetings

  

  by Ashley ListerI'm typing this direct into blogger. I'm really short on time this week having bitten off more than I can chew (or promised to write more than... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I'm No Scrooge, but .....

  I don't know if it's just me, but to me Christmas isn't the same anymore. Perhaps it's because I've grown up, and lets face it, Christmas is all about the kids... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Boxing Day Laziness

  Christmas wouldn't be the same without a new poem from our poet laureate. This year saw Carol Ann Duffy write Bethlehem; a beautiful little book published by... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thoughts for Christmas

  Here is the second post from David Riley as he covers for the Tuesday BlogIs poetry always religious?Is religion always influenced by the politics of the day?... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• It's CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!

  Time for a new Christmas song...Jump upTurn aroundCan you hear that Christmas SoundHo Ho HoGoes the fat man in redJump upTurn aroundCan you hear that Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• One Christmas Poem

  Good evening all, This week we've been looking at numbers and feeling all festive. Not all of you? Well I have. Yesterday I rewrote the twelve days of... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead Good Poetry Show - Live on Air!

  

  on air now!Just a reminder that tonight's edition of the Dead Good Poetry Show will be playing for the next two hours on Fylde Coast Community Radio.Tonight's... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Word Counts

  

  by Ashley Lister I was going to be arsey about this week’s theme. I was going to moan about my working with words – not numbers. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Numbers - My Life

  As a couple of others have mentioned this week, I am not great with numbers either. For some reason, when sat in my Maths Class, a lot of what the teacher was... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Anecdote: Learning to Count

  

  On Monday afternoon my eldest nephew, who started school in September, snuggled beside me on the sofa to show me what he’d been learning. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 3 is a Magic Number

  Maths. I'm just not very good at it, I can budget, do basic stuff but more advanced maths does leave me scratching my head like a chimp from a teabag advert. I... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Numbers Are the Closest Thing to God

  This week the Tuesday Blog has been written by the wonderful David RileyNumbers are the closest thing to God since the old chap's sad demise in the nineteenth... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Numbers

  I love numbers. They are ever-present in the world. Be it to measure the distance between David Cameron and the real people of the land (counting using a unit... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION