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• Dead Good Poetry Show - Live on Air!

  

  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 28 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Belated Greetings

  

  by Ashley ListerI'm typing this direct into blogger. I'm really short on time this week having bitten off more than I can chew (or promised to write more than... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I'm No Scrooge, but .....

  I don't know if it's just me, but to me Christmas isn't the same anymore. Perhaps it's because I've grown up, and lets face it, Christmas is all about the kids... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Boxing Day Laziness

  Christmas wouldn't be the same without a new poem from our poet laureate. This year saw Carol Ann Duffy write Bethlehem; a beautiful little book published by... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thoughts for Christmas

  Here is the second post from David Riley as he covers for the Tuesday BlogIs poetry always religious?Is religion always influenced by the politics of the day?... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• It's CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!

  Time for a new Christmas song...Jump upTurn aroundCan you hear that Christmas SoundHo Ho HoGoes the fat man in redJump upTurn aroundCan you hear that Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• One Christmas Poem

  Good evening all, This week we've been looking at numbers and feeling all festive. Not all of you? Well I have. Yesterday I rewrote the twelve days of... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead Good Poetry Show - Live on Air!

  

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

  Posted on 21 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Word Counts

  

  by Ashley Lister I was going to be arsey about this week’s theme. I was going to moan about my working with words – not numbers. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Numbers - My Life

  As a couple of others have mentioned this week, I am not great with numbers either. For some reason, when sat in my Maths Class, a lot of what the teacher was... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Anecdote: Learning to Count

  

  On Monday afternoon my eldest nephew, who started school in September, snuggled beside me on the sofa to show me what he’d been learning. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 3 is a Magic Number

  Maths. I'm just not very good at it, I can budget, do basic stuff but more advanced maths does leave me scratching my head like a chimp from a teabag advert. I... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Numbers Are the Closest Thing to God

  This week the Tuesday Blog has been written by the wonderful David RileyNumbers are the closest thing to God since the old chap's sad demise in the nineteenth... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Numbers

  I love numbers. They are ever-present in the world. Be it to measure the distance between David Cameron and the real people of the land (counting using a unit... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oscar Wilde- a Villain, Hell!

  I know relatively nothing of Oscar Wilde's work. Like most writers, I have an anthology and like most, I have flicked through it from time to time but to write... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead Good Poetry Show - LIVE ON AIR NOW

  

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

  Posted on 14 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Society of Assholes

  

  by Ashley Lister There are many things that grind my metaphorical gears. I don't care for Tories (unless they're recently deceased with a comedy orange up the... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• An Oscar Complex

  Well, what a man!I decided to look at quotes from Oscar Wilde as opposed to anything else, as I think they can truly give a better insight into persons psyche. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Would You Make A Bunbury?

  

  Bunburying is the delightful concept at the centre of Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. Its usage and meaning within the play is perhaps best... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• It's All in the Picture

  

  Due to a very heavy workload I will be covering for Cerrie this week.Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Grey shocked a society when it was first published in 189... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION