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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: The SAFT battery man

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. The SAFT battery man. Black Country is Liz Berry’s first full poetry collection and it leads off with “Bird” in which the poet is transformed. The choice is appropriate for a first collection as "Bird" is one of those statements of poetic intent that poets write early in their career, laying claim to their domain:. I raised my throat to the wind. And this is what I sang…. One of my favourite poems is the terrible wonderful "Echo". Wherever girls’ voices are lost,. Being a black c...

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: The Oxonian Review 2015 poetry competition

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. The Oxonian Review 2015 poetry competition. The competition was judged by Jamie McKendrick. And a reading of the shortlisted poems was held at the Albion Beatnik. Book store in Oxford. Those willing and able followed up with a celebratory meal at the Al Shami. Restaurant afterwards. Everyone was incredibly friendly and welcoming, and it was marvellous fun. Photo a Day 2011. Kiva: Loans That Change Lives. The Oxonian Review 2015 poetry competition.

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: July 2015

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. The Shotover Oak probably started life as an acorn in Tudor times, and was a small sapling by the time Elizabeth I visited Shotover Lodge in 1566. I've known the oak for most of my adult life, but a week ago on 13 July its major branches succumbed to damage brought on by the dry weather. It fell in two parts, and the council had no option but to cut it down. I feel a sense of loss I find impossible to justify. If I worship anything. It is this old oak,. From its birth,.

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: Three drivers. One Steering Wheel. Go.

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. Three drivers. One Steering Wheel. Go. 2014 Jerwood/Arvon mentors and mentees. I'm two thirds of the way through the Octanka digital literature project that I committed myself to at the beginning of this month. I'm taking it in turns with fellow Jerwood/Arvon poetry mentees Deborah ‘Debris’ Stevenson and Holly Corfield Carr to write a renga. Of linked poems or poetic fragments. The renga is made up of tanka. I'll miss it when it is over. Or Holly's blog here. Photo a Day 2011.

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: Nightjars and Tufa

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. Apple Picking by E Tolley. How do you see a poem? It’s a stupid question: you don’t see poems. Poems are about how you see things. Poetry is so much about seeing things that there is an extensive genre - ekphrastic poetry - of poems describing visual works of art. One of the most famous ekphrastic poems is Keat's Ode on a Grecian Urn. But the technique goes back at least as far as Homer, and is still very popular today. Poems are used to seeing, not being seen. Phonetic relations...

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: Elemental Path Debuts The First Toys Powered By IBM Watson

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. Elemental Path Debuts The First Toys Powered By IBM Watson. Picture (c) Elemental Path. A friend wrote to me today: "I'm about half impressed, half creeped out here, but pretty sure I'd check with a child's parent before gifting one of these.". He was talking about Elemental Path. S new line of smart toys for children which will be powered by IBM Watson (the same machine intelligence that won the quiz show Jeopardy. There's an article on the toys here. If you want to buy one.

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: Octanka

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. A child cross-legged in rain. Leaves collapse outside bright gates. Teachers. Bow heads as pigments break. Spilling their guts out,. Rust, helicopter blades, blush. The child gets up. Face scratched. With autumn and loss. A bell aches. Smells of chilli and garlic. And this child, the sort who speaks. In three registers at once, speaks:). 8220;I’m not hungry. STOP! This petulant orange, your plastic. Parenting. I’d rather eat Lego.”. I will buy you some eggs. We need to have words.

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: Wolf Hall

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. The Shotover Oak probably started life as an acorn in Tudor times, and was a small sapling by the time Elizabeth I visited Shotover Lodge in 1566. I've known the oak for most of my adult life, but a week ago on 13 July its major branches succumbed to damage brought on by the dry weather. It fell in two parts, and the council had no option but to cut it down. I feel a sense of loss I find impossible to justify. If I worship anything. It is this old oak,. From its birth,.

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: May 2015

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. Apple Picking by E Tolley. How do you see a poem? It’s a stupid question: you don’t see poems. Poems are about how you see things. Poetry is so much about seeing things that there is an extensive genre - ekphrastic poetry - of poems describing visual works of art. One of the most famous ekphrastic poems is Keat's Ode on a Grecian Urn. But the technique goes back at least as far as Homer, and is still very popular today. Poems are used to seeing, not being seen. Phonetic relations...

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y: June 2015

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I A N . M . D U D L E Y. Living at 10,000 feet. Picture by Pascalou Petit - Licensed via Wikimedia Commons. The Pic du Midi is a meteorological, astronomical and ecological observatory perched on top of the highest peak in the French Pyrenees. It looks like Blofeld’s lair. It is also, after the recent very harsh winter, surrounded by snow, rather than the pristine rock shown in the picture. The most distinctive feature of the complex are the multiple cupolas housing many different telescopes.