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Purple
Poets
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Friends
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THE QUAKER CENTRE
LIBRARY
Friends Meeting House,
173 Euston Road
Bloomsbury
London NW1 2BJ
Tel: 020 7663 1030
quakercentre@quaker.org.uk
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Barry Cole
poet, novelist, journalist
(a friend of the Purple Poets)
Barry Cole's found poem
Questions for Conscientious Objectors
will be read at the
Purple Poets and Friends and Peace
celebration at the Quaker Centre
April 22nd 2010, 2:30 p.m.
Barry Cole was born in Balham, South London. He
has published seven collections of poems and four novels. His poems appear
in more than a dozen anthologies, including Philip Larkin's The Oxford
Book of Twentieth Century English Verse and British Poetry since
1945.
Most recently, he has been a Poetry Workshop leader (with Kim Morrissey)
for the Fitzrovia Poetry Workshop, and two new poems by him Bananas
and Erithacu Rubecula, or The Cockney Robin appear in the
Workshop'sfirst anthology, A Fitzrovian
Miscellany (March 2010).
Extract from writer and blogger David Belbin's diary (June 17,
2009):
I've met Barry a few times but this was my first visit to his house.
And, while I knew his fine poetry, I'd never read any of his novels, until
the Shoestring reissue of his second, Joseph Winter's Patronage, which
I finished on the train journey to London. It's a terrific, absorbing novel,
fast moving, multi-viewpoint, beautifully written, about the rage and passions
of old age, all the more remarkable given that Barry was only in his early
thirties when he wrote it. The novel is dedicated 'To Bryan', the remarkable
experimental novelist BS Johnson. ... Joseph Winter is as good a novel
as the best of BSJ's work and I mean to seek out his other three. When I
asked him why he stopped writing novels in 1971, he told me that he 'ran
out of ideas'. I suspect the subject's more complicated than he was willing
to say and BSJ's death had something to do with it, too.
http://www.davidbelbin.com/2009_06_01_archive.html
BOOKS BY BARRY COLE INCLUDE:
Run Across the Island
(London: Methuen Young Books, 01 May 1968), Hardcover: 220 pages
ISBN-10: 0416280609
ISBN-13: 978-0416280609
Joseph Winter's Patronage (first edition)
(London: Methuen Young Books; 1st Edition edition, 01 March 1969)
ISBN-10: 0416126804
ISBN-13: 978-0416126808
Joseph Winter's Patronage
(London: Shoestring Press; 2 edition, 1 Dec 2008)
ISBN-10: 190488685X
ISBN-13: 978-1904886853
Search for Rita
(London: Methuen Young Books, 5 Feb 1970), 184 pages
ISBN-10: 0416149707
ISBN-13: 978-0416149708
The Visitors
(London: Methuen Young Books, 20 August 1970), Paperback: 64 pages
ISBN-10: 0416073204
ISBN-13: 978-0416073201
Vanessa in the City
(Trigram Press , 01 January 1971), Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0854650156
ISBN-13: 978-0854650156
The Giver
(London: Methuen Young Books 28 October 1971), Hardcover: 200 pages
ISBN-10: 0416088805
ISBN-13: 978-0416088809
Pathetic Fallacies
(London: Methuen Publishing Ltd; First Edition edition, 21 Jun 1973), 80
pages
ISBN-10: 041329630X
ISBN-13: 978-0413296306
Inside Outside
(London: Shoestring Press , 01 October 1998)
ISBN-10: 1899549110
ISBN-13: 978-1899549115
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 1 cm
Chapbook 17. The Rehousing of Scaffardi by Barry Cole, illustrated
by Geoff Stear
Keepsake Poems
Keepsake Press, 1974
A series of 39 poetry chapbooks, The Keepsake Poems, was published between
1972 and 1979 by the press. All have a standard format of crown quarto wrapper
enclosing a trimmed folded sheet. A poem and illustration were printed on
the centre pages and the print run was generally of 180 copies.
The Keepsake Press was a private press founded by English writer Roy Lewis.
The press published more than 100 books and chapbooks using letterpress
techniques. It ceased to operate in 1996 when Lewis died. Its archive is
now housed at Reading University.
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keepsake_Press
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Thursday 22 April 2.30pm
Poetry reading inspired by Quaker Testimonies
to Peace
Quaker Centre, Friends House, 173 Euston
Rd, London NW1 2BJ
To celebrate the first Quaker Peace
Testimony in 1660/1, join us in the Quaker Centre as the Time Bank Purple
Poets and Friends (including work by Miram Halahmy,
Peter Daniels, Leslie Wilson, Sue
Blundell, Fiona Green,
members of The Fitzrovia Women Writers, Jeoffrey
Bould, Heather Spears, Bithi
Das, Islam Molla, Patsy
Futatsugi, Nahar Islam,
Shelagh Beale, Kim
Morrissey, Barry Cole - poetry workshop leader
of the Fitzrovia Poetry Workshop) and
members of TADs -the Third Age Project's Drama Group,
and a special reading by Deanna Johnson of a found
poem cycle based on the Boer War Letters of Emiy Hobhouse.
Most of the poets will be reading their own found
poems taken from the Peace collections in Friends House Library. This
is an on-going project, and this is the first of several workshops and
readings.
Our special guest artist Jo WOnder will present
her own 'found poetry' Peace collage to the Quaker Centre Library inspired
by Quaker texts selected by Kim Morrissey. |
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A free event, light refreshments provided.
Please register
at:www.quaker.org.uk/purplepoets
Event is from 2.30 to 4.00 pm. Wheelchair
accessible.
For all enquiries please contact the Quaker
Centre
quakercentre@quaker.org.uk
/ 020 7663 1030/41
found poetry - technique
Purple Poets and Friends and Peace
-other poets taking part:
Daniel Beard
Barry Cole
Workshop
Miriam Halahmy
Brenda Niskala
Heather Spears
Jo WOnder will create a 'found poem' work
of art for the reading,
to be donated to the Quaker Library in celebration of the event,
using words from pamphlets written by Quaker Women.
SOURCES FOR THE FOUND POETRY PROJECT
FROM THE QUAKER CENTRE LIBRARY
EUSTON ROAD
Quaker Library Librarian: David Irwin
project initiator: Beverley Kemp
HISTORY: In a writing workshop held for the Purple
Poets on January 21, 2010, at the Quaker Centre, Euston Road, poet Kim Morrissey
explained the Found Poetry technique, and librarians Beverley Kemp and
David Irwin provided background information about the Quaker Library, History
and Quaker Testimonies of Peace. Beverley and David acted as resource people
for the project, enabling the Purple Poets to put the material into context.
A second workshop was held by Kim with the Fitzrovian Women Writers Group
on February 8, 2010. A third workshop, for invited guest poets, attended
by Miriam Halahmy and artist Jo WOnder, was held by David and Kim on
March 29, 2010. For those poets not familiar with the technique, further
one-to-one workshops will be held (in person and by internet) leading up
to the event, and Quaker poets will be invited to write their own 'Testimonies
of Peace' for the reading. The Third Age Project's drama group TAD
will perform some of the poems, under the direction of Gary Kielty.
A C.O. IN PRISON
W.J. Chamberlain 1917
"A ZEPPELIN RAID"
PAMPHLET 223/2 13439
pages 44-48
THE COURTMARTIAL FRIEND
AND PRISON GUIDE
1917
PAMPHLET 223/3
pages 4-5
OTHER PURPLE POETS' PROJECTS:
ACCESSING THE ARTS
A list of suitable venues and unsuitable venues
for performing (DDA compliant or reasonable adjustments noted)
and for holding meetings (this is an on-going
project)
PROJECT: ARTS
FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
-- working with local community galleries, libraries and museums
FIFTH FIELD TRIP (18.03.2010)
National Portrait Gallery, Saint Martins Lane
(The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, invited viewing and NPG workshop)
How to Read a Painting
workshop leaders Fran Wilde and Kim Morrissey
special guest artist and resource person Jo
WOnder
additional artist material by Heather
Spears
FOURTH FIELD TRIP (18.01.2010)
Quakers Centre Library
Euston Road
(Testimonies of Peace research for April 22nd, 2010 reading)
THIRD FIELD TRIP (24.05.2009)
British Museum, Great Russell Street
(Indian Summer, Garden and Cosmos, invited viewing)
SECOND FIELD TRIP (02.04.2009)
Wellcome Trust Library, Euston Road (Acts of Mercy paintings)
FIRST FIELD TRIP AND ON-GOING
PROJECT (05.10.2006)
1930's Stained Glass Windows by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope, (M.E.A.
Rope)
The Crypt, Munster Square
first visit by photographer Tatiana Schenck (09.05.2009)
these windows were commissioned for St. Augustine's (Hackney)
background essay and footnotes: Art in the Crypt
SAINT LEONARD
SAINT GEORGE
more work by the
PURPLE
POETS:
Babushka, Bithi Das, Carol Moon, Eileen Francis, Eppie Caredda, Ferdous Rahman,
Serajul Islam Molla, Jean Watt, Kathy Randle, Nahar Islam, Norah Platt, Patsy
Futatsugi, Shelagh Beale.
TBUK
Time Banking UK,
The Exchange,
Brick Row,
Stroud GL5 1DF
Tel: 01453 750952
info@timebanks.co.uk
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