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• Those Who Favour Fire

  

  by Ashley Lister The Game of Thronesbooks and TV series are part of an ongoing story written by George R R Martin and published under the title A Song of Ice an... Read more

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

• Winter is Coming...

  

  Winter is coming, it's ragged breath Leaves a chilled damp trail against a cheek Still echoing the heated embrace of Summer.Winter is coming, it's staggered... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Deconstructing Dick

  

  Now is the winter of our discontentProtests continue on a number of fronts:Anti-fracking (MP, Caroline Lucas to be charged for helping stage a peaceful... Read more

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

• Considering Blue...

  Blue.Blue is the colour of The Beautiful Southand the swear words to help you know Aliceit is power and sadness that combined with goldmakes a green known for... Read more

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

• Things I Wouldn’t Put in My Mouth - a Very Short List

  

  by Ashley Lister I try not to put anything blue in my mouth. This includes blue Smarties. Smarties have been with us in one form or another since 1882. Read more

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

• Shock Surprise Baby Blues

  Being a mum is a shared experience.Gaggles of the preggers lot converge with the current maternal overlords of experience - mothers of 0-6 year olds - and... Read more

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

• A Country Road. A Tree.

  

  The scent of pig is faint tonight as the lime trees hang their heads against gradations of blue, looking at the lone suitcase in the middle of the farmyard... Read more

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

• Blue Stuff

  

  Yeah, so my first week back and the theme is, erm, blue. Magic.List? Done already.Poem? Done already.Let's have an interview with a blue frog named Terry. Is... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• An Influence That Will Not Be Forgotten.

  This week, we've been looking at the bible. I haven't, because shamefully I couldn't find one in the house (Lord knows where it is). Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead Good Poetry Show - Live on Air Now

  

  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.On tonight'... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The 10 Commandments of FaceBook

  

  by Ashley Lister1 You shall have no other social media networking sites before Facebook.2 You shall not do the Twitter shit (unless you feed Twitter links... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lisa's Bible

  I rock gently, hugging a red folder I'd named THE SU (student union) BIBLE in jest. The humour in the name now gone as I began to thumb its pages more... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Anonymous

  

  In the fourteenth century, the Lollards set about translating the Latin Vulgate bible into English under the leadership of John Wycliffe. Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Bible

  I want to approach this subject eloquently, so I’m going to bare my soul a little in order to explain my views. One of the first books my mother bought for me... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bible Stories with a Generous Helping of Easter

  This week’s theme is “The Bible.” Now I am pretty certain there will be lots of argument regarding what is considered to either be the truth or fabrication.... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Undiscovering the Magic

  Good afternoon folks.This week on the blog, we've been looking at magic. On this note, I have discovered a machine that lets me turn back time- I'm going to... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Modern Magic

  

  By Ashley ListerAccording to Lost in Translation by Charlie Croker, this is a translation agency’s advertisement in The Moscow Times.“Bet us your letter of... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• B*gger Magic

  Don't forget to head down to Café Number 5 at 6pm for some Magical poetical fun and japes at our open mic night tonight. I'll be there, albeit a little late... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• It Sits in the Middle and Knows

  

  On Saturday, we Dead Good Poets met for our monthly workshop. After a fun word game which involved coming up with the most inventive similes (I failed but not... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magic

  I'll tell you what would be a great magic trick, if I managed to hit all my deadlines this week. It's first week back at college so I'm a little under the cosh. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION