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.
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A Modest Proposal
For Preventing Government Policy, from Being a Burden on Families or the Country as a whole, and for Making them Beneficial to the PublicIt has come to my... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
To August.
Good afternoon folks,This week on the blog we've been looking at familiar themes. If there is one thing I share in common with a lot of people it is a love of... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Interview Questions
By Ashley Lister Tonight (Saturday August 17th, BST) I finally get round to hosting the first episode of the Dead Good Radio Show. You can find it by clicking o... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
The One Way Street
Sometimes you spend a lot of time doing thing for other people that never seems to be reciprocated. This happens a lot. I finally wrote a poem about it:-This... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Tits Up
There's a discrepancy between what I write about in my poetry and what I write about to friends and family, via social media, email etc. Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
My Family of Familiars
So Mouse said it is fine,And Cat agreed the line.Yet Dog was not so keen,For Rabbit to make a scene.So Frog made for the road,While the others all blamed... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Greenery
Good afternoon readers.There are times as writers when we get caught out by a theme throwing too much at us. This week on the blog, we've been looking at... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Untapped Resources
by Ashley Lister As has been mentioned this week, the theme of green often addresses the subject of being environmentally responsible. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Little Too Green...
There've been some great pieces of poetry this week. Some eclectic views on nature, fracking awful frackers, philosophical and biological serial killers. Yep,... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Green and Pleasant
The Song of Wandering AengusBy William Butler Yeats I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head,And cut and peeled a hazel wand,And hooked a berr... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2013 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Fifth Person Perspective
Welcome to my recycling. The fifth of its kind. The fifth person. The fifth ‘Me’. The fifth birth. The fifth death.Seven years. You do know that's all it... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
To Be Truely Green.
The theme this week on the blog is “we’re green”. An apt theme for the time we’re in. Summer is a beautiful season and our native woodlands do ‘green’ very well. Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 SELF EXPRESSION -
A Postcard from Frackpool
Well, prepare yourself for gas flares firing at the end of your driveway- and strengthen those listed rectory walls whilst you’re at it- words to that effect... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 SELF EXPRESSION -
Postcard from the Somme
The Lochnagar Crater at La BoiselleThis crater is preserved as a reminder of the first day of the Somme offensive on 1st July 1916. Read more
Posted on 02 August 2013 CULTURE -
Dead Good Poetry on the Radio
By Ashley Lister On Monday, August 5th, I’m going to start hosting a radio show: The Dead Good Poetry Show and I’d love for you to join me. Read more
Posted on 01 August 2013 CREATIVITY -
The Biggest Lie.
I'm sorry this is late folks i've been having major issues with my laptop all day. Just revived it. Here is a little poem... Picturesque with sunny vales,Tight... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Sheep on a Hill
WHAT IS THIS LIGHT!Oh it's morning. Daybreak bursting through the crack in my curtains infecting my light starved eyes with blurred pain. DAM! It's like this... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Birth Rights
George. It was a name that featured fairly prominently in our ‘potential children of the future list’. Links in the family, quite traditional, not as common... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Wish You Weren't Here...
by Ashley Lister The theme this week is the back yard. Specifically, it's the phrase, "not in my back yard". Sadly, abundant in my back yard, are these things. Read more
Posted on 27 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Not in My Back Garden...
So the theme for this week is 'Not in my back yard...' Well I don’t have a back yard, not since we moved from Liverpool to Blackpool for the bracing sea air... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION