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News, Arts - Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations at The Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2012 - 23rd June 2012 to 7th July 2012
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Fresh Ink and Write to Speak in association with Hull City Council, Hull Truck, Fruit and thisisUll.com present:
Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations is a series of spoken word events and workshops that will take
place between 23rd June and 7th July at the Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2012.
Featuring performances from punk poetry pioneer, John Cooper Clark, American bard of the factory
worker, Fred Voss
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News, Arts - Poetry/Spoken Word - Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations Performance Poetry Workshops
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Calling all poets...
Would you like to take part in a bold series of poetry events as part of the Humber Mouth Literature festival?
Would you like the opportunity to perform your work at Hull Truck?
Would you like the opportunity to see your work published?
Fresh Ink and Write to Speak present: Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations,
an ambitious poetry initiative to encourage a new generation of spoken word talent.
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News, Arts - Poetry/Spoken Word - Tuesday 26 June - Dreadlockalien School Slam Workshop at Hull Truck Inter@ct
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As part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations
invites local primary schools to attend the Dreadlockalien School Slam Workshop at Hull Truck Inter@ct
.We are seeking to engage with groups of Year 5 pupils, along with a teacher from each participating school.
A special one-off event designed to introduce Hull schools to slam poetry in education, and delivered by
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News, Arts - Poetry/Spoken Word - Monday 2 July - Ross Sutherland 'The Three Stigmata of Pacman' at Fruit
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As part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations presents presents
'The Three Stigmata of Pacman' with Ross Sutherland.
A true story about time travel.
Ross Sutherland's job is to predict the future. Working for a well-known national newspaper, Ross spends his days surrounded by people speculating
on Britain's imminent collapse. As far as his office is concerned, The Future is already written
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News, Arts - Poetry/Spoken Word - Tuesday 3rd July 2012 - 'Ghost Running' with Hannah Silva - supported by Helen Mort at Fruit
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As part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations presents presents
'Ghost Running' by Hannah Silva, supported by Helen Mort
Ghost Running is a 20-minute new work of sound focused poetry performance on the topic of distance running,
inspired by the research for a new BBC Radio 3 commission Marathon Tales.
Performed by Hannah Silva,
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News, Arts - Poetry/Spoken Word - Wednesday 4th July - The Fresh Ink. Workshop Poets at Hull Truck
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As part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations presents presents
The Fresh Ink Workshop Poets.
Fresh Ink presents an evening of poetry and spoken word by local poets in the studio space at Hull Truck Theatre on Wednesday 4th July at 7.30pm.
This evening is the culmination of a series of workshops run across the city by Write to Speak and Fresh Ink, encouraging local writers
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News, Arts - Thursday 5 July - 'The Long Beach Connection' with Fred Voss and Joan Jobe Smith at Hull Truck Theatre
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As part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations presents presents
The Long Beach Connection with Fred Voss and Joan Jobe Smith.
Travelling over from the United States especially for this event, Fred Voss and Joan Jobe Smith will be appearing in the studio
space at Hull Truck theatre, with an evening of vivid vignettes that pull no punches and will hit you in the gut.
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News, Arts - Poetry/Spoken Word - Saturday 23 June - 'Reclamation' with Joe Hakim, Mike Watts and Ruth E. Dixon - Edinburgh Fundraiser at Hull Truck Theatre
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As part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations presents presents 'Reclamation'
with Joe Hakim, Mike Watts and Ruth E. Dixon - Edinburgh Fundraiser..
A special show to open the Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations series of events,
Reclamation: Edinburgh Fundraiser, features the work of Hull performers Joe Hakim, Mike Watts and
Ruth E. Dixon, and takes place in the Studio Space at Hull Truck Theatre, Saturday 23rd June.
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News, Arts - Poetry/Spoken Word - Saturday 7 July 2012 - John Cooper Clarke at Hull Truck
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As part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations presents John Cooper Clarke.
What can you say about our John?
Born in 1949 to George, an engineer and Hilda, an unpublished poet, John spent his childhood growing up in Salford, Lancashire.
With his biting, satirical, political and very funny verse delivered in a rapid-fire performance style,
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Poetry - Budget Day 2012 By Terry Ireland
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I suppose I'm biased
Being of pension age
Though I must admit
Not really feeling any rage.
For I see no real sense
In having a good bitch
For historically the poor are
Ever exploited by the rich.
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Poetry - Pigeon Toed No More By Michelle Dee
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I recall this night with warm, inviting people,
huddled around fires, within and without.
I remember passing around wine and
losing all sense of time.
Faded news cut-outs fragmenting on bathroom walls. And
the dusty allure of an overcrowded kitchen.
I see pictures of fire-lit faces;
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Poetry - Six to Pay High Price By Patrick Henry
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Six mainly Yorkshire soldiers who died,
Blown up in Helmand, and on the world press front page:
Heroes gone, to feed endless need for power and pride:
Senseless fighting for a poor, poppy-sown lost frontier land.
Might of Alexander, Genghis Khan, the British Raj, the Soviets:
Failed to figure how those ragged tribes had not kowtowed.
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Poetry - It's OK By Jenny Halliday
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I push the button, scroll, enter and wait.
Hoping, holding my breath just incase.
Desperate to see a message, praying,
to who? Longing for his return. Safe return.
Unscathed, untouched mentally
and physically by the demands of his job.
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Poetry - Still They Fight The Fight By David Delaney
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They walk the shifting sand
like those who went before,
now in that ancient land
still fighting in a war.
They once again defend,
the young answer the call,
joined by their Kiwi friends,
they're ANZAC's proud and tall
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Poetry - Walk Away By Shaun Heesom
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Walk away, seems it's easy for you
Take our dreams our hopes our plans
And walk away
Don't look back, you might not like the view
Take your words and lies, your nonchalance too
Just walk away
Go hide your face in your hands
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Poetry - Bless This Handbag By Helen Burke
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At crucial moments of my life
you will find me ironing.
A trick learnt from my mother.
She always smoothed things out.
made peace between warring parties.
Now, the only creases left are around her eyes.
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Opinions - The End of The Boathouse By Elektro Diesel Photographs by Philip Rhodes
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This morning I was informed that as of 1st March 2012, The Boathouse no longer exists as a venue for the Arts here in Hull.
This effectively means that Hull has lost the only place left where Artists could be just that, a place where experimentation was actively encouraged, and where like-minded (or not) creatives would come together and celebrate contemporary arts in all its forms, but mostly, experimental sounds and music.
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News - Eye Opening Exhibition at HERIB
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A charity that helps the visually impaired is hosting an exhibition of equipment and services for the community to see the work it does.
Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind (HERIB) is opening its doors on Tuesday 20th March 2012 between 10am - 3pm to the general public.
There will be a wide range of exhibitors, demonstrating equipment,
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Poetry A Girls Best Friend By Pamela Scobie
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The fatal flaw of Nora Dring
Was splashing all her dosh on bling.
She counted carats, never calories,
Selecting suitors for their salaries.
Hence she was squired about by Joe
(Apostate prostate, but loads of dough),
And when she couldn't stand him any longer,
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Opinions - Plea For Bus Shelter By Mrs. Flanagan
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Hull City Council, would you please, please consider erecting a bus shelter for the public, at the number 28 stop outside the funeral parlour at the Northpoint shopping centre in Bransholme?
The weather here is absolutely treacherous and I dread taking a daily trip to get my shopping essentials.
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Poetry - Bikers Homage 2010 By Jan McGeachie
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In contrast to quiet serenity
Each time a funeral cortege
Passes from RAF Lyneham
This Mothers Day
Wootton Bassett
Heard engines roar and
Saw the largest ever band
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News, Arts Cottingham Drama Festival - Call for Submissions
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September 2012 will see the return of the Duck's Bill Drama Festivalin Cottingham.
Last year's inaugural event at the Duke of Cumberland, Market Green featured eight performances and was a roaring success as virtually every show was a sell-out, with acts travelling from as far as London to take part.
This year, we at Penny Duck Theatre Company aim to make it bigger and better.
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Poetry - Blackest of Hearts By Laurenceaux.
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With voodoo
I slew you;
yout life it withdrew.
I own you,
to intone and eschew
all that you do.
I trapped your mind
in a picture I drew
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Places to Visit - Rudd On The Road Part 28: Full Moon Fever By Steve Rudd
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'Four thousand baht! You must be joking!'
I'd just been told how much it was set to cost me to rent a beachfront bungalow for the night on Had Rin Nok, the home of Thailand's infamous Full Moon Parties on the tropical island of Koh Phangan. I was frankly astonished. Four thousand baht roughly equated to eighty pounds: a blatant rip-off by anyone's standards, however desperate they might have been
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Poetry Swings and Stones By Christy Hall
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And if I could go back, if you'd take me I'd go,
back to the parks and fields of our youth.
I can still smell the sickly aroma of rubber-bits
heating up in the afternoon sun,
the recently cut grass, the cheap aftershave
and girlish scents, splashed to impress each other
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Reviews, Theatre Poems and Pints at The King's Arms, Salford, Friday 3rd February 2012 By Melanie Fullard
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Poems and Pints; the brainchild of Paul Heaton ( The Housemartins, Beautiful South ) and his partner, Zena Barrie is a new monthly poetry event held in The King's Arms,
Salford, Manchester. Paul, who has recently become the new landlord was also in the line-up to perform.
Myself and thisisull's Cilla Wykes accompanied two of Hull's leading poets, Mike Watts and Joe Hakim who had both been invited to the opening night.
The King's Arms
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Food and Drink - Last Word, 237 Newland Avenue, Hull By Siobhan Harmer
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Quaint yet distinctive, Last Word café is the pinnacle of subtle pleasures.
Situated close to Hull University, the café fuses two crucial aspects of student life; coffee and reading.
Last Word is an independently owned 'espresso lounge and library' ideal for
spending spare time between classes or even a little time to yourself. Indulge in a diverse range
of
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Poetry - Save Us By Simon Icke
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Save the planet from pollution.
Does anyone have the solution?
Save your soul and find redemption,
Lord deliver us from temptation.
Save our world from the bomb,
Who else has the atom?
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Poetry - nowitsover By David Osgerby
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nowitsoveridonthaveanythingleft
cantevenbebotheredwithpunctuationnow
eventhiseffortistoogreatnowshesgone
idontseethepointofanythinganymore
noteventhispoem
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Poetry - The Bird That Sings Until The Sun Goes Down By Jim Higo
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Unperturbed by traffic nearby, unmoved by lightening in the sky,
No tear filled eye, or fearful frown,
For the bird that sings until the sun goes down.
A soothing song as children wept, vivacious verse as salmon leapt,
No need for sceptre, or jewelled crown
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Poetry - Tshirts, Trainers and Jeans By Dayne Coyne
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It's the start of the holidays
We're looking great in our teens
All heading off to the disco place
T-shirts, trainers and jeans
Oh well, Oh well
Tonight's the night that I might discover
Just what all of it means
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