Bloomsbury Time Bank
The Purple Poets
workshop leader: Kim Morrissey
contact: Ferdous Rahman
rahmanferdous AT hotmail.com
TEA AND PURPLE POETS’ TWITTER
Twitter Poems from The Purple Poets
(and friends) @PurplePoets
Bloomsbury
NEXT TWITTER SESSION:
July 23rd, Queen’s Crescent Festival, London
(noon - 4, closest bus: 24)
First Festival Twitter Poems
with the Purple Poets (and friends)
from the Capital Age Festival Tea Tent
part of the Coin Street Festival 2011
Southbank, 10.07.2011
TEA AND TWITTER
twitter: the reason why
(the twitter poems, in reverse chronolgical order)
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
#caf2011 -8 a tweet is like a bad translation/Houdini
in a straight-jacket/the poet always struggling time and words/trying to
amaze- or die
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
#caf2011/ 6 Purple//such a grand colour/meaning
sorrow/meaning joy/ mixing blue and pink together/ the last chakra/ worn
by kings and queens.
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
#caf2011 -7 Bithi, who cannot walk far/ took 3 buses
and walked/to the Southbank/for the Festival.// Read her poem for Tagore/and
remember.
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
#caf2011 poem 5 TEXT TO EPPIE/Please remember/ after
your purple poetry/ You promised to go home/to your party//We are are waiting/
to cook
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
#caf2011 poem 4: In the sunny tea-tent /on the Southbank,/the
little purple accordion/ of Encore Encore/ sums up summer/ again//again
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
Purple jam for Poets is the best!/ Superjam is the best!
/#FraserDoherty, with free tea-parties/ for older people, like his gran/
- even better!
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
@caf2011 a raffle without tickets/ results in prizes
for all/ news of words/ phone tapped/ into cheesecake body humms -Michael
Noonan
Michael Noonan
http://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelGNoonan
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets FIRST POEM
OF THE CAF FESTIVAL
@caf2011 listening the floating flow of tide’s grey
outpush/ in purple warmth flow/-ers Sunday tea tent/ July sun blooms late
*
(by Michael Noonan)
http://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelGNoonan
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
@colinshelbourn first festival poems were by Michael
Noonan (@caf2011 poems to follow). William Shakespeare would have to be anon
on twitte-
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
@colinshelbourn @markthomasinfo RE: Southbank debate
last night. Support Palestine - buy their olive oil at the Quaker Friends,
Euston Rd.
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
yes, @colinshelbourn #caf2011 was great. Lots of Purple
(and a couple of poems or drafts of poems). Art is long, Purple Poets are
longer.
11 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
@colinshelbourn er, there seem to be a lot of #CAF things
out there that have nothing to do with the Capital Age Festival on the
Southbank
9 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
Dear @pangolin444 Sunday @CAF tea tent. First twitter
dance poems. Purple Poets and friends. Write us a poem - or lend a phone
to tweet!
9 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
@pangolin444, Hi Pam. We'll be at the CAF Festival on
Southbank tomorrow (July 10th) 2 - 6 helping people tweet poems, and tweeting
our own.
9 Jul 2011
@PurplePoets The Purple Poets
First Tweet Poem Purple, like Orange, Only rhymes with
itself. and good friends! Thanks @ColinShelbourn, for the help. Our No. 1
friend!
9 Jul 2011
THE TEA AND PURPLE POETS’ TWITTER
PROJECT
The Purple Poets started The Twitter Poems Project, because
we thought it might be fun to work with the length restriction. Knowing nothing
about twitter at all, we felt we were ideally suited to the task of creating
poem twitters.
We suggested the Tea and Twitter project to Capital Age
Festival (CAF) organiser, Paul Mulgrave, as we were about to
have our poems featured in the Tea-Tent (as part of the 2011
Coin Street Festival). Paul said yes!
Hurrah!
Despair! Paul , very helpfully, on July 8th, pointed
out that Twitter only gave you 140 characters, not 142 (a huge blow to the
Purple Poets in terms of epic poetry). Our friend Colin Shelbourn spent several
hours on the early 20th century invention, the tele-phone, talking us through
signing up for our twitter account, who to follow, setting up a profile -
and how to tweet.
first step: go to https://twitter.com and set up your
new account.
We are @PurplePoets
(or, for experienced tweeters, put
#PurplePoets
if you want to mention us in a tweet to everyone)
Alas! Alack! Paul very unhelpfully sent us an e-mail
on July 9th, said he could not offer us human resources (which is why, if
you were in the Capital Age Festival Tea Tent on Sunday, July 10th, you would
have seen an army of Daleks attempting to help us to twitter). Unfortunately,
although they were uncharacteristically cheerful and helpful, Daleks don’t
have thumbs, which made sending our twitter poems from their blackberries
very difficult.
We posted the poems-in-progress on Twitter on Monday
instead, using old-fashioned 20th century technology (the lovely Mac OS Powerbook
G4 10.4.11 the equally lovely Colin Shelbourn passed on to us).
Hurrah!
The Purple Poets’ group Twitter poems were written
round a table in the Capital Age Festival Tea-Tent, 3-5 p.m. surrounded
by tea, cakes, scones and the fabulous Superjam made by the very polite and
astonishingly generous Fraser Doherty (@FraserDoherty). The poems were written
on the popular mid-19th century invention, the blank postcard, using the
equally mid-19th century writing instrument, the graphite pencil. Our beautiful
purple pencils were very kindly donated to us by CAMDEN RECYCLING, for last
year’s Camden National Poetry Day celebration.
Trying to tweet the poems made the limitations of the
twitter format clear, and although we have used a forward slash /
to signify a line break, and // to signify
a stanza break, the poems aren't written with twitter in mind. The continuous
line of a tweet means that conventional poems look much better on a conventional
page. The major problem, working within a 140 character poem, is that spacing
and punctuation are the first things to be lost - and using Purple Poets
as typists makes mistakes inevitable.
Please note: all poems are poems-in-progress, and first
drafts.
In late breaking news on July 11th, our friend Pam Grant
(who designed last year’s National Poetry Day poster for us) sent us
our wonderful Purple Poets Egg for our twitter icon.
CAPITAL AGE FESTIVAL, COIN STREET FESTIVAL
JULY 10, 2011, SOUTHBANK
Our first two CAF festival poems tweeted were written
by our very talented Friend of the Purple Poets, Michael Noonan.
Michael
Noonan
http://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelGNoonan
(Twitter Poems, in the order they were tweeted,
but with the original line breaks and stanza breaks intact)
listening the floating flow of tide’s grey outpush
in purple warmth flow
-ers Sunday tea tent
July sun blooms late *
-Michael Noonan
a raffle without tickets
results in prizes for all
news of words
phone tapped
into cheesecake body humms
-Michael
Noonan
Purple Jam for Poets
is the best! Superjam is the best!
#FraserDoherty, with free tea-parties
for older people, like his gran
- even better!
In the sunny tea-tent
on the Southbank
the little purple accordion
of Encore Encore
sums up summer
again!
again!
TEXT TO EPPIE
Please remember
After your Purple Poetry
You promised to go home
To your party
We are are waiting
To cook
BITHI
Bithi, who cannot walk far
took 3 buses and walked
to the Southbank
for the Festival.
Read her poem for Tagore
and remember.
PURPLE
such a grand colour
meaning sorrow, meaning joy
mixing blue and pink together
the last chakra
worn by kings and queens.
a tweet is like a bad translation
Houdini in a straight-jacket
the poet always struggling time and words
trying to amaze - or die
NEW TWEETS -TOPICAL TWEETS
(for Friend of the Purple Poets, radio cartoonist, Colin Shelbourn)
@colinshelbourn RT @PurplePoets: HACKING POEM If you hack my phone, feel
free/to remember Daisy's anniversary/Call & send her a card/ and a present
from me
July 13
INTERESTS: Our plans include World Domination, by flooding
the internet with poems, leaving no space for horrible agar-agar-cheesecake
recipes that don’t work. Join us!
The Purple Poets (Bloomsbury Time Bank) host the Camden
National Poetry Day celebration at the Camden Town Hall with the Mayor of
Camden every first Friday in October. (This includes an open reading of postcard
poems from 3 - 5 p.m. and a chance to write a poem for
Jo WOnder's Bacterial Ophelia). Everyone
welcome. More details at www.purplepoets.com
The Purple Poets Poetry Workshop
is affiliated with Time Banking UK
(Stroud).
It was founded in 2005 as part of a London-wide poetry
group scheme funded by the Lottery for Time Banks
with a grant from The Arts Council. Its supporters have included
The West Euston Time Bank, The Carnegie Trust, City BridgeTrust,
The Third Age Project, and the new economics foundation.
The Purple Poets were funded May 2005 - August
2010 by the West Euston
Time Bank and are now hosted by the Bloomsbury Time Bank.
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festivals, workshops or permissions to print or perform,
please contact The Purple Poets
Workshop Leader
Kim Morrissey
poets AT purplepoets.com
or
Ferdous Rahman
rahmanferdous AT hotmail.com
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contact: poet Ferdous Rahman
rahmanferdous AT hotmail.co.uk
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read our first twitter poems from the CAF festival Tea
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