scottish poetry library workshop

@CILIPScotland @ByLeavesWeLive #CILIPS16lilias.fraser@spl.org.uk

@CILIPScotland @ByLeavesWeLive #CILIPS16 lilias.fraser@spl.org.uk

The Dancers Inherit the Party When I have talked for an hour I feel lousy –not so when I have danced for an hour:The dancers inherit the partywhile the talkers wear themselves out andsit in corners alone, and glower.

Ian Hamilton Finlayin The Dancers Inherit the Party: Early Stories, Plays and Poems (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2004)

MAKING CONNECTIONS

To leave with a poem in yourpocket - notes - phone - memory -

heart

Image by Dixon+ under Creative Commons licence

poems give & demand the gift of time

ACTION 1: SLOW DOWN

To appreciate; pass on; ponderchallenge, relinquish, allow, acceptbe accosted by dignity.To forgive and free.

Martin MacIntyre, from ‘Tools of the Trade’

Tools of the Trade: second edition

How to construct an albatross Begin by setting the instructions aside.Instead tune the mind to flight.Attach the huge, clunking wings (treat like hangar doors)- do this by lantern light; now heave them wide.Next, place the heart inside - adjust to beating;You may witness a sudden upwards surgeas the chest swells - this will be fleeting -resist the urge to release;now, embed the eyes (still asleep - this matters)and fasten the beak; carry the slumbering birdto someplace steep, repeating the word wake,and - this is key - just as the heart (yours) begins to breakand the slow whales blow -let go

Louise Greig

When do you havetime for a poem

in your day?

@CILIPScotland  @ByLeavesWeLive  

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“Patience is a virtue,  Possess it if you can:  Seldom found in woman,  And never in a man.”

Olive’s gift

Living Voices poetry, story and song in care homes

• Scottish Storytelling Centre & Scottish Poetry Library• SLIC Innovation Fund: ‘These Foolish Things’• To offer innovative training and support to libraries and care homes to build a ‘library’ of vintage objects, and learn a range of ways of using them together with poetry and stories, in community-based work with older groups and people with dementia, including in care homes

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/carerslivingvoices@spl.org.uk

When do you havetime for a poem

in your day?

@CILIPScotland  @ByLeavesWeLive  

#CILIPS16 

Fox Trot Fridays Thank the stars there’s a dayeach week to tuck inthe grief, lift your pearls, andstride brush stridequick-quick with a heel-ball-toe. Smooth as Nat King Cole’s slow satin smile, easy as taking one day at a time:one man and one woman,rib to rib,with no heartbreak in sight –  just the sweep of Paradiseand the space of a song to count all the wonders in it.

Rita DoveFrom American Smooth (Norton, 2006)

Rita Dove reads two poemsPBS Newshour / YouTube, from 0:37

ACTION 2: MAKE IT EASY TO USE THE TIME YOU HAVE

 Q1: What part of the day can you fit a poem into?

Q2:  Where will you be & what will you be doing?

Q3:  What formats will suit you best?

SPL poem posters www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/posters

SPL podcastswww.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/podcast

Poetry Foundation appFree for iPhone & Android

Poems By Heart from Penguin ClassicsFree for iPhone

The Poetry Archive& Children’s Poetry Archivewww.poetryarchive.orgRecordings, search by poem/poet, tours

Poem-a-day email Academy of American Poetswww.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-dayDaily email of a new poem on weekdays, or a ‘classic’ poem at the weekend

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/posters

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/podcast

Poetry Foundation app: free for iPhone & Android

Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics: Free for iPhone

www.poetryarchive.org

www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day

What do you recommend?  @CILIPScotland  @ByLeavesWeLive  #CILIPS16  lilias.fraser@spl.org.uk 

National Poetry Day 2016: MESSAGEScard images, pdf posters, poems, poet information, learning ideas

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/teachers/national-poetry-day-teachers

mixedmessagespoetry.wordpress.com

What do you long to say to someone?Your words could be part of a poem. Leave the phone message you always wanted to, but couldn’t. Some or all of the words in your message could be picked to be part of a poem for National Poetry Day.Leave a voicemail saying the thing you’ve always wanted to say to 07856 853675 by 30 June.Don’t like phones or used up all your free minutes? That’s not a problem. You can also text 07856 853675 or email mixedmessagespoetry@gmail.com

07856 853675 mixedmessagespoetry@gmail.com@mixedmessages1

Who would you say thankyou to, and why?

07856 853675 @mixedmessages1

mixedmessagespoetry@gmail.com

ACTION 3: PASS IT ON

The Dancers Inherit the Party When I have talked for an hour I feel lousy –not so when I have danced for an hour:The dancers inherit the partywhile the talkers wear themselves out andsit in corners alone, and glower.

Ian Hamilton Finlayin The Dancers Inherit the Party: Early Stories, Plays and Poems (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2004)

You don’t see many hedges these days, and the hedges you do see they’re not that thorny, it’s a shame, and when I say a hedge I’m not talking about a row of twigs between two lines of rusty barbed wire, or more likely just a big prairie where there were whole cities of hedges not fifty years ago, a big desert more like, and I mean thick hedges, with trees nearby for a bit of shade and a field not a road not too far off so you can nip out for an insect or two when you or the youngsters feel like a snack, a whole hedgerow system, as it says in the book, and seven out of ten sparrows say the same, and that’s an underestimate, we want a place you can feel safe in again, we’re social animals, we want our social life back, and the sooner the better, because in a good hedge you can always talk things over, make decisions, have a laugh if you want to, sing, even with a voice like mine!

Hedge Sparrows

Richard Price

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