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 ( 2031 )
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Town Planners
: men and women of vision, charged with shaping our environs for the better, putting the best architectural and environmental theories into practice for the... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Town Planning - May the Force Be with You.
Long, long ago, not far away (from where I now live in Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire), there was a stretch of coastline that was bleak marshland, inhabited onl... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Town Planning
When I saw this week's theme I thought , " What do I know of this ? " So I set my mind to thinking ....At college circa 1969 we had a tutor who took us for... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Winter
Pick up any book or poem by one of the Bronte family and more often than not, there will be a winter scene described or winter weather referred to. Strong,... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Overwintering
It is supposedly the case that the older you get, the colder you feel; or more precisely, the more you feel the cold. With December imminent, days are shortenin... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Winter - Baby It's Cold Outside.
I have prepared for Winter. They say this year is going to be very cold. Although I love the colours in Autumn and when working in Tenerife, truly missed the... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Winter
Once you start talking about winter one's mind turns back to winters past. Yesterday evening Don and I were talking just thus and recalling many bad or memorabl... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Channelled
By Christo Heyworth “A two-kingfisher day, with sparrowhawks thrown inand we were bickering at Kingswood Junction.Water won’t be told, she said, you never... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Canal
Towpaths I have loved... a simple exultation this time. I've headed south for the week-end, visiting family, and today I re-acquainted myself with the Grand... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Canals - Flowing Through Time.
I spent my mid-childhood, from six until eleven, in Maghull. Dad opened a new pub there called the Everest in 1962. Named for the pioneering ascent in 1953,... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Canals
Well this week's theme is 'canals', and you will already guess by my previous blog on 'locks' that I like the waterways. When I lived in Oxford we had a boat... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
An Act of Inaction
Certain things prove difficult, even though their accomplishment requires that we do less, not more. Dieting, at its simplest, demands that we consume less... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Twin Towers
I didn't expect I'd be referencing Paris for a second week running (after last week's Van Gogh Dans Le Metro poem). I had a completely different idea mapped... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Secrecy - It's Time to Open the Curtains.
The World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland. Read more
Posted on 12 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Doppleganger
by Ian Rusetear A doppleganger, or aesthetic double, was first heard by me in context of ‘Stone Roses’ guitarist John Squire who, in emulation of... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Ich Habe Einen Doppelganger
Your regular Saturday blogger wishes me to advise you that he's taking today off - a well-earned rest, blah blah blah. Apart from anything else, he thinks he's... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Doppelganger - Must Be Seeing Double.
When my sister and I were younger, we worked together and wore the same uniform. I remember one day went out together to buy lunch and a lady said, "Ooh... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Doppelganger
I have some experience of doppelgangers...not of myself, I might add...although like nearly everyone reading this someone at some time has asked if I have siste... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Sex, Pies and Gaffer Tape
Mercy, children. Who's that a-knocking so early at our door? What does this hideous portent? 'Tis the blogger at the Gates of Dawn. O pity him, awakened by the... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Tie
Who remembers Kipper ties ? I was a dedicated follower of fashion in the mid 60's and 70's. Making my own clothes to keep up with the latest trends. Read more
Posted on 27 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION