Ashleylister

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• 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

• A Basic Connection

  So, connections hey? Hmmmmm. Where do you start? I don't think there can be anything that isn't connected in some way, shape or form to another thing!*Taps... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poem: Radiators

  

  RadiatorsJust as winter was beginning to appear – crisping up the lawns and silvering the thicketsI heard the asthmatic wheeze from the airing cupboard;a... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Connecting the Dots...

  

  This weeks theme and the theme for Friday's poetry event is connections. On Saturday I attended the monthly workshop run by the Lancashire Dead Good Poets... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Connecting

  

  Staged ConnectionAn inkling of a notion of a premise of an ideaSynoptically outlined for the outside world to hear.Connected by the minds of those who read and... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 5 Fruity Poems

  Whether you're passing the time between superbowl adverts or looking to fill that gap between lunch and tea, I know that you're mad about both snacks and poems... Read more

  Posted on 02 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 01 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• How About Twilight Apples?

  

  by Ashley Lister At the start of this month I was ill. There’s been talk that I was bitten by Aragog. Personally I think it was more like that creature from... Read more

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

• Apples Are the Only Fruit ....

  They say that if all else fails, write about what you know. Well, after struggling with the theme of "How many Apples" this week, I thought it best to tell you ... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Do You Like Them Apples?

  

  How many apples?Well? Do you know? I don't. There might be three, or four. Probably just one though. Apples are good. One apple hit Isaac Newton on the bonce... Read more

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

• How Many Apples?

  It took one apple,To open our eyesAnd gaze upon the naked bodyAshamed we run and hideIt took one appleTo say good byeLeaving Eden to the dying faithOf the lost... Read more

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