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writer-in-residence
Kim Morrissey

twitter @PurplePoets
read our  first twitter poems from the  CAF festival Tea Tent

contact: poet Ferdous Rahman
rahmanferdous AT hotmail.co.uk

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THE PURPLE POETS
POSTCARD POEMS:

INTRODUCTION TO DANCE
(A Poem Cycle) for July 10, 2011

FERDOUS RAHMAN:
Poetry-in-Progress

DANCING WITH THE WIND
01.07.2011


What a wonderful feeling
Dancing with the wind.

Dancing in the air like an angel.

When I point my toe, on the ground,
It changes the colour of the world.

My inner eyes wide open
My heart beating

Like thousands of tunes of strings
Vibrating, and I feel

I am dancing the universe.

EPPIE CAREDDA
Dancing

I love dancing

bowing and twirling
like swans on the lake

heavenly, content
endlessly happy.

 
Eppie by Heather Spears
International Women's Day Dance 2010

PATSY FUTATSUGI
Purple Plastic Joy Forever:
'Jelly Baby 3' (chemical cloning, 2004)
by the British artist Mauro Perucchetti.
Wellcome Collection `




The Purple Jelly Baby

glows; happy, happy, happy,

dancing jelly belly joy.



image courtesy The Wellcome Collection

BITHI DAS POEM FOR RABINDRA NATH TAGORE: Remembering Tagore by Bithi Das I remember in my childhood his poems I read in school in Calcutta, not realising how important they were in life. I was a little girl. I didn't understand the value of his Nobel Prize but I remember his death. There was no television those days, I heard the commentary on the radio. Heard the procession, and I cried and cried, cried very hard. I still cry for this great man, my hero.

The next Purple Poets reading will be at
Queen's Crescent Community Festival
July 23rd, 2011
where they will read
and also help poets tweet poems about Purple

and

HIROSHIMA DAY
AUGUST 6th 2010
Tavistock Square, Camden
noon to one p.m.
(organised by the London Region CND)

HISTORY OF THE PURPLE POETS' INTRODUCTION TO DANCE

When the Purple Poets launched the Poetry Bench in Cumberland Market on June 26, 2010 - the little boy who helped to hold the purple ribbon for  Mayor Simpson  to cut, asked to keep the ribbon, and showed it proudly for the rest of the picnic. When other children asked 'Which Mayor, Boris? ---  the little boy said, 'No, the Real Mayor. The Mayor of Camden!'

The  real Camden Heroes in the Purple  Poets' Postcard Poems are the teachers: Alicia  Frost, teaching drama and line-dancing, Gary Kielty introducing dance in drama, and, of course,  the magnificient Mary Panton- the Third Age Project's Country Dance Teacher. Mary is an acclaimed dance caller - one of the first dance callers to use non-gendered terms in her calling.  See her other work at  (http://www.kan83.dial.pipex.com/panton.htm)

There are still poems to be written -  the  astonishing Christine, the wonderful dances at the International Women's Day Dance, and, of course, the traditional maypole dance expert Chris Turner,  much-loved for  his Saint George's Day Celebrations, 2010 at Dick Collins Hall.  Chris is very modest, so he won't tell you his first book THE RAMBLINGS OF A LONDON GENTLEMAN’ (A book of country dances by Chris Turner Illustrated by Veleaf) was published in 2005 .

PURPLE POETS
OTHER 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

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.

This is an educational site.
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For permission to use any of this material
please contact the Purple Poets
(poem AT purplepoets.com)



The Purple Poets  have co-produced projects
with the Quaker Library
and the Wellcome Trust.
and The Royal College of Physicians

The Bloomsbury Workshop
'ThePurples' create community projects promoting the 5 P's:
People, Poetry, Plants, Purple and Picnics
(our major project is Camden National Poetry Day)
We also are keen on International Women's Day,
Local Summer Festivals and Green Fairs,
Disability Access, Friends of the Park, Tenants' Rights
Constitutions, and anything else our members find interesting

think purple! think poets!
Bloomsbury
The Purple Poets
for readings, projects and  festivals contact Ferdous Rahman
rahmanferdous AT hotmail.co.uk
mailing address: The Purple Poets
c/o Flat 18 Chenies Street Chambers
Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7ET