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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 ( 2049 )
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Outsider
The week's bloggings on the theme of outsider have been mostly of a personal and confessional nature, but I'm going to buck the trend as this one is going to... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Outsider
I've often felt like an outsider, but I know now that it all turned out for the best. I was an only child - so straightaway that made me 'different' from other... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Outsider - Why Are We Like This?
I have been following the news carefully over the past few weeks. I have a fondness for Spain, speak the language fairly well and have worked and holidayed on... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Outsider
What does it mean to be an outsider? I’ve felt like an outsider all of my life. In fact my earliest memory is of watching myself on an old camcorder recording;... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Coventry Cathedral
It's the last day of September, which for me represents the true end of summer. The sun (when it shines) still has some power to warm, but one can feel its... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Church
I like old churches. I like their architecture, their location, their history and the adjoining graveyard especially. On tombstones is etched history, sociology... Read more
Posted on 29 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Church - Raikes Parade Methodist Church
It was a sad day in 2003 when Raikes Parade Methodist Church held a final Methodist service and the doors were locked for the last time. The church was no longe... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
On Track
Yes indeed. Back on track after a fab week on the sunny island of Kos; not a cloud to be seen and temperatures in the mid-30s Celsius - not bad for September. Read more
Posted on 24 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
On Track
As you all know I do a lot of hillwalking and in order to keep myself up-to-date I took a refresher course in intermediate map reading about two years ago. Read more
Posted on 22 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
On Track - One More Time To Live
The school holiday of Christmas 1971 was a time of worry and uncertainty. Exams were looming ever closer which led to thoughts of that distant thing called... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
For In That Sleep...
...of death, what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause - there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. Read more
Posted on 10 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
What Dreams Are Made Of
. Good evening. Well, I've taken all day to come up with some ideas for this week. If truth be told it's the first opportunity I've had to sit and reflect, as... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
What Dreams May Come - For Branwell, With Love
I can’t remember much of last night’s dream. Vivid though it was, it faded into nothing by the time I was ready for the day and I blamed it on the amount of... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
What Dreams May Come
I have always been fascinated with the idea of dreams and what they actually mean. Sigmund Freud an Austrian neurologist believed that dreams were a reflection... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Esp
One more sparkling sunny summer Saturday in the jewel of the north, seagulls are spiralling happily, tomatoes are ripening on the vine and there's not a cloud o... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
ESP - Gift Or a Curse?
It doesn't matter whether you were raised under the eye of organised religion, were nurtured by a hippy earth mother or have a sound scientific background, at... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
ESP - Second Sight
My mum called it ‘second sight’. She had inherited it from her mother and grandmother. It has come down the generations to me, though mine differs from theirs. Read more
Posted on 29 August 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lolita
Lancashire Dead Good Poets were approached last year by a Liverpool-based arts project that took Lolita as its theme and was looking to match poetry with... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Dolly Mop
Well , I've taken the bull by the horns today. I quickly wrote this at breakfast time and almost gave Don apoplexy when I read it to him...poor man. Read more
Posted on 25 August 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lolita - 'thank Heaven for Little Girls...'
Nobody has even suggested that this is an easy topic for a blog. There are so many current issues with child exploitation in the news. Read more
Posted on 24 August 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION