Ashleylister

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• Blackpool & The Fracking Censors? Put This in Your NUS Meeting.

  There was going to be no blog post today as a mark of respect for those members pushed out of the group by their official college ties. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Important Notice

  This week we have seen one of the founding Dead Good Bloggers leave his post of Saturdays because of things that have been said with regard to the material he... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Really Gets My Goat?!

  Prejudice and ignorance!In some small degree it could be argued that we are all guilty of those qualities, but when they come to the fore in a greater sense,... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• and It's Goodnight from Him

  by Ashley Lister This will be my last post on the Dead Good Blog. I just want to note here that it’s been a pleasure working with so many professional writers. Read more

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

• What Really Gets My Goat?

  Apart from the Brazilian goat eaterOr people that use feet as well as the millimetre"It's six foot one way and 500 mil the other"Oh brotherJust pick oneand be... Read more

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

• Is This a Question? A Last Stand from Lancashire.

  Good afternoon readers,As a Proud Northerner, I am often accused of being abrasive, brash, rude, offensive and well, you get the point. I must offer a reason fo... Read more

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

• The Poetry Show

  

  on air soon!Just a reminder that tonight's edition of The Poetry Show will be playing for two hours from 8pm on Fylde Coast Community Radio.Tonight's show is... Read more

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

• The Naming of Dogs - NSFW

  

  by Ashley Lister This week's theme is questions. One of the questions people often ask me is, "What are you doing in my garden?" One of the other questions... Read more

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

• An Unanswerable Question?

  How? Who? What? Where? When? Why?The world is full of so many questions. It is also full of people who are struggling to find the time to answer them, but they... Read more

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

• But Why Mum, Why? Why? But Why? But Why is That? Why?

  

  So. Questions.Apparently when I was three years old I tormented the living daylights out of every person I constantly came into contact with by constantly... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Is This a Question?

  The legend that is the philosophy exam question to which the urban librarians claim that one student one year wrote. "If this is a Question? Then this is an... Read more

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

• Purple Patch.

  Good afternoon readers.This week on the blog it has been all things purple. We've had colour inspirations, critical analysis and funny examples of found purple... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Dead Good Poetry Show

  

  on air now!Just a reminder that tonight's edition of the Dead Good Poetry Show will be playing for two hours from 8pm on Fylde Coast Community Radio.Tonight's... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Purplified Prose

  by Ashley Lister This is my current idea for a writing exercise. Take an existing line of fiction and purplify it. I might need a better word than purplify. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Putative Purple .....

  I have read the other entries on the blog this week with great interest. I had never heard of the term "Purple Prose" before and, as ever, I am finding the... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Purpureus Pannus

  There is a tendency to assume that poetry is a patch of expensively dyed purple cloth, significantly different to the plain shades of everyday language. Read more

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

• Purple Valentine B*llocks

  

  It's coming to that time of year again on Friday. Valentines day, where we're supposed to love our significant other a bit more and lavish them with lots of... Read more

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

• The See You Smile

  OK, purple prose, yeah.Firstly I looked up 'prose' or as I found out, to just write normally. Then I looked up 'purple' which returned various information... Read more

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

• The Dead Good Poetry Show

  

  on air now!Just a reminder that tonight's edition of the Dead Good Poetry Show will be playing for two hours from 8pm on Fylde Coast Community Radio.Tonight's... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Necrophilia Love Poem - Probably Not Safe for Work

  

  by Ashley Lister I need to preface this with an introduction as to how and why this poem relates to this week's theme. Last week I was chatting with Michelle... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION