Hull Local Reviews Arts, 1st September 2010 - Write to Speak Featuring Ian McMillan - Talking Myself Home By Jess Fullard age 16
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1st September 2010 - Write to Speak Featuring Ian McMillan - Talking Myself Home
By Jess Fullard age 16

This poetry thing's alright!

Right, me auntie asked me to go to this poetry thing - her mate couldn't go so I sez I wud (only coz she was gunna buy me a beer!).

I woz a bit worried it might be all, 'thee, thou' stuff. Am onny 16 an Eminem is the most famous poet I know!

Anyhow we goes in an it turnz out to be o'right, you know. I woz real surprised. Mike Watts and Joe Hakim did their poems and these woz real good.

Then the main bloke, Ian Mcmillan comes on and he looks like me grandad! Anyway, he starts telling us about his life and he did it in poems - they woz mad funny an' I really enjoyed it - dint think I would.
He said stuff about the olden days, even before me auntie woz born! His school woz mad, I wish my teachers were like his - ours are right geeks. The poem about his mam was a right laff, but sad too.

So I got me drink an had a gud night. I wud go again, yeah. I like this stuff 'cos I understand it - it's about real things and I got what he was on about.

Anyway, that's all - am off to practice me lines - 'The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain'.
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