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Poetry - Grannyma By Dennis Wild
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Grannyma, my father's mother,
Lives behind four Salford walls
Like a tinned and wrinkled prune
Drawing all her will for living
Not from God, or man, or Guinness
But from ceramic souvenirs
And her scrapbook of fluffy kittens
She's collected throughout the years.
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Poetry - Jekyll and Hyde By Bernard Franklin
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For changes in human behaviour,
I think that the biggest by far,
is the obsession and pride that we all have,
in the wonderful motor car.
We treat it with such a reverence,
like an icon that's sent from the Gods,
but it can turn the most mild mannered people,
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Reviews, Arts - Write to Speak featuring Dennis Wild at The Adelphi Club - Thursday 5th August 2010 By Melanie Pearce
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The Write to Speak group has become an extended family and like all families they like to get together for a bit of a do.
The chosen venue is the local Adelphi Club - round at mad Uncle Paul's house. Like any mad uncle's house, it's small, messy and always full of waifs and strays. You certainly wouldn't eat there but its home all the same.
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News, Arts Poetry/Spoken Word - Write to Speak at Hull Truck, Wednesday 1st September 2010 Featuring Ian McMillan - Talking Myself Home
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Write to Speak, Yorkshire's first theatre based spoken word night, returns to the studio space at Hull Truck theatre for its third season on Wednesday 1st September, with Ian McMillan -Talking Myself Home
Talking Myself Home is Yorkshire poet, comedian and broadcaster Ian McMillan's life story in poems, and a portrait of Darfield, near Barnsley, a place mentioned (briefly) in the Domesday book, now trying to reinvent itself after the wholesale closure of the mining industry.
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News Former Ballerina Stars for Williamsons By Julian Woodford
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Former dancer Gemma Foster has swapped Drury Lane for Chancery Lane and become a fully qualified solicitor.
Ms Foster, a trainee at Williamsons Solicitors since 2008, has been appointed to the Hull firm's family department following a two-year training contract.
While her Law Society graduation at Chancery Lane on July 26 marked the official start of her professional legal career, it also brought back memories of her 18 years in dancing.
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News, Arts Legendary Band to Launch New Photography Exhibition in Hull
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Iconic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are set to showcase their first album for 14 years at Hull Truck Theatre - where an exciting new exhibition of photos of the band is also being staged.
All promotional photography for OMD's new History of Modern album has been shot by Hull-based photographer O-Ten, who worked with the band at several locations around the city, including Hull Truck Theatre's basement!
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Art - Introducing Local Artist Rachel Eden Allbutt
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I've always been a picture person. I admit I just look at the pictures. I like pictures very much.
I've dipped in and out of being an 'artist' and spent intense times doing it followed by intense times not doing it. Life, work and drudgery often got in the way and the focus got blurred, so much so that there have been long times when I was unable 'see' anything beyond immediacy.
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Poetry - The Rooster By Jody McKenna
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Waves and lonely music
Desolate mountain standing proud
Tilting trees with nothing on 'em
Singing what she sees in clouds
Moon sinking over shadows
Birds flee free from harm
Frogs off rocks to catch the springs
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People - An Interview with Local Writer Richard Sutherland By Nick Quantrill
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Nick Quantrill talks to fellow Hull-writer, Richard Sutherland, about his new book.
Nick : 'The Unitary Authority of Ersatz'...what's that all about? Tell me a bit about the book. Where did the title come from? Is this your first book?
Richard : Well the title was a gradual decision. I basically wanted to create a world where all of the book's contents could take place, like my own version of Narnia or Oz.
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Opinions - Doing Drugs With Your Kids (Is It totally Wrong?) By Dobski
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This idea may seem abhorrent at first thought and to most concerned, it probably is beyond even question, but let's think about it a bit.
Of course no-one in their right mind would endorse a combination of mother/father-son/ daughter sat in some squalid flat 'jacking' each other up, or passing a crack-pipe back and forth. To indulge in either of these substances at any age or situation is a path to almost inevitable destruction,
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News, Arts Free Drawing Classes
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No drawing ability/'talent' needed!
Have you always had a desire to draw but don't know where to start, think you can't or think you need talent?
The classes aim to show you where to start and help you realise that you don't need talent to draw really well.
Based on the principles of 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' by Betty Edwards the classes will teach anyone who wants to draw
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Site News - New Website Comments on Twitter,Facebook integrate all your different online identities. |
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I was leaving a comment on the telegraph.co.uk the other day and I noticed their comments system integrated
nicely with facebook and Twitter using Disqus a universal management tool for
commenters and an efficient way to integrate all your different online identities.
You can log in to your Twitter, facebook, or Open ID and reblog your comments across
multiple services such as Tumblr, Wordpress, Movable Type, and Typepad.
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Poetry The Fun Fair By Roy Amers
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People arrive for the time of their lives,
Children and husbands and also their wives,
Music and lights fill the night air,
and the smell of candy floss at the fun fair,
Slow rides and fast rides for the masses,
fun filled balloons filled with strange gases,
Coconuts a flying off their stands,
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Poetry Larkin 25 - I'm Not Larkin By Kerry-Joe Pulford
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I'm not Larkin.
I only want one hit,
Like Wordsworth,
The Daffodil one.
Don't get me wrong
I'm all for being prolific ...
But it's 25 to f***
And I'm still struggling
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Poetry - Beverley's Grumble By Jan McGeachie
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Ice and snow, coldest winter you say?
I yearn for the norm, every day
What do you expect? Let me be
I hate having now reached sixty
I'd really rather be o'er there
With Under Fives, for whom I care
Where ethics never slipped away
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Poetry - To See By Belinda Barchard
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Sometimes, just sometimes
We too, wish we were blind
Wish we could live outside our own minds
Live freely and without the confines
Of our tormented souls
Those thoughts and those feelings
Over which we have no hold
And sometimes no control
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Poetry - Larkin 25 - Life Is 140 Characters By Dave Windass
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I used to enjoy telling the world
What I was up to
Using 140 characters
But I woke up one morning
And realised that writing
For 140 characters
Is a lot harder
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Poetry - Larkin 25 - A Mother's Lament By David Thompson
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Something borrowed, something blue,
So little time, so much to do,
Things to buy, things to try on,
All for a day that's here and gone.
A wedding list that's far too long,
Who to cross off, bound to be wrong,
A day that's meant to be full of joy,
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Places to Visit - Rudd On The Road Part 23: A Cashflow Crisis By Steve Rudd
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Twelve ATMs down, and not all that many to go. It was fair to say that I was in a quandary, with no cash to my name other than a few dollar notes I had left over from my recent trip to the US.
It wouldn't have been so bad if I'd had a clutch of British pounds, or a sizeable wad of notes in any currency for that matter; a staggering number of currency exchange offices line both sides of Khao San Road in Bangkok,
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People - An Interview with author Robert Endeacott By Nick Quantrill
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Robert Endeacott talks with Nick Quantrill about his new novel, DisRepute, which chronicles Don Revie's ill-fated spell as England manager, and picks up where his prior novel, Dirty Leeds finished...
Nick : Congratulations on the publication of DisRepute - Revie's England. Is it a follow-up to Dirty Leeds? Tell me a bit about the book, what's the story?
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Poetry - Larkin 25 - Dust Jackets By Melanie Pearce
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I found a book in another town
It attracted my eye, one I couldn't put down
It promised me verses and secrets it hid
The kind of stories to pass to your kid
Instead it showed me the flaws in my self
This kind of book should be left on the shelf
But this jacket stood out amongst the rest
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Poetry - Larkin 25 - Local Language By Robert Swan
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'Cunts' can be either 'Silly cunts',
Or be reclaimed as feminine and pretty,
But 'cunts' not always a swear-word,
When you get dragged up in Hull City.
If you think something smells fishy
Then that's a pity,
So I'm gunnu explain
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