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• Salvations

  When it comes to performing poetry, the space and the venue that you're in certainly makes a difference. At the start of the month, I found myself at Poulton... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Data Overload

  

  There are weeks when the blog's theme causes a vast blank space to enter my mind, and then there are weeks - like this week - when an idea arrives almost... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Unintentional Spaces

  

  I have lots of spaces. In my notebooks. I buy them, start them and then when I have sullied the first few pages with my scrawls I start a new one. I always... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stardate: -716000

  

  Would it make too much mess if I picked apart a sentence? The theme this week is 'space' and I can't think the word without it being pestered by its fellows, ':... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Space

  

  by Abdul Dawood (Abdulicious) The Space we create This is my space, that is your space, We separate our sides via the show lace, But that was then... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thank You for the Words

  In recognition of the blog hitting 1000 posts, this week we've been picking some of our favourite lines from our archive of posts. Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Uncreative Writing

  

  Guest post by David Riley Below is something I made using one of the free word shuffling programs that can be found on the web and a couple of entries from... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Magnificent Milestone ....

  I feel truly privileged to be writing for the Dead Good Blog as it achieves its 1000th post and continues in the strong manner that has already brought it thus... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 1,000 Posts

  Overhead, the sound of planes can be heard, accompanied by more planes Narrative arcs are sloth-like Emotion / Dares us to consider how we live. Tension of... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What's That There? It's Mine I Found It, Finders Keepers. No You Can't Have It,...

  I 'found' this while looking through old blog posts; I'll tell you a tale of a man he began to imagine he could put a little bit of his soul into these paper... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Milestone

  

  This week will see us reach 1,000 posts on the Dead Good Blog. In celebration of that fact, the current bloggers will be creating found poetry using snippets... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Hear Talk ....

  With the theme for this week being "Eavesdropping", all I have had rattling around my head is the song "I Hear Talk ..." by Bucks Fizz. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poetic Eavesdropping

  

  A Writing Exercise: Take yourself out into the world and listen. Whether you find yourself on a train, in a coffee shop, in an art gallery or in a supermarket... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Quixotic Origins

  

  eavesdropper (n.) mid-15c., from Middle English eavesdrop, from Old English yfesdrype "place around a house where the rainwater drips off the roof," from eave... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• More Precious Than Metal ....

  It makes me laugh how only certain metals are deemed "precious". In an age of technology and industry, ALL metals are precious, we would be lost without them. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Preserving Memories

  Floating I imagine you sitting on a pool of mercury Like Styrofoam on water You do not sink The faces of your family and friends Dark shadows cast on the light... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Iron Filings

  

  electrons leap from atom to atom we don’t ask to see their papers These lines are shavings, iron filings, left on the floor after I had taken a poem through... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beacon

  

  Good evening readers. This week on the blog we've been considering writing spaces. For me, the best writing spaces are the places where poetry almost finds... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The "Nook"

  

  I don't know why, but I do my best writing when sat in "The Nook". It's cosy, almost like a hug. Usually in solitude when my little chap-ster is at school, the... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Interruptions & Love

  

  Dear Boy Poet, Last night, after you'd returned from work, you dropped your backpack in the middle of my writing space. You pulled off your shoes, and began to... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION