Issue 354 19th Sept 2014

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Holmcroft/

Baswich/Gnosall

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RBW Remembering Poetry Workshop

Monday 29th Sept 1.30pm (Free of charge)

All welcome.

Please bring poetry you

remember and perhaps some you have written

on the theme of Remembrance.

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Random words : executive, gang, intellectual, city, perfume, stink, embrocation, thwack, glistening, heart-break Assignment : Winding Down

As dawn breaks

on day 52 Mums and Dads,

Grannies and

Grandpas shiver under canvas at

the Stafford Hospital

Protest Camp on

the lawn at Stafford Hospital.

Protest march to CCG meeting

took place this

week.

Hemingway quotes:

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a

master. A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny

book. The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky

enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the

heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvellous is the truth than any art-

ists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

~ Richard Feynman ~

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INVITATION MONDAY 29th Sept 1.30pm

Rising Brook Writers Library Workshop will celebrate

NATIONAL POETRY DAY

The theme will be REMEMBERING.

Come and celebrate poetry with us by bringing in

Poems that you remember and that have a carved a special place

into your heart to share with the group.

Your own poems on the theme of remembrance are also welcomed.

All Welcome. No charge.

Missing Missing you is being bullied in Miss Ashworth‘s class, Missing you is bare feet crunching on broken glass, Missing you is the world switching over to ‗Mute‘, Missing you is hurting over a friend‘s dispute, Missing you is buying chips without salt, Missing you is everything‘s always my fault, Missing you is the horror of Concorde crashing, Missing you is lorry tyres puddle splashing, Missing you is as sore as an open wound, Missing you is reaching out for a silent sound, Missing you is eyes wide staring at a game-show, Missing you is chilblains throbbing in winter snow, Missing you is two weeks in Benidorm, Missing you is being a caterpillar that can‘t transform, Missing you is Mozart through ear defenders, Missing you is sales day at Marks and Spencer‘s, Missing you is cardboard instead of cornflakes, Missing you is my life drifting by in out takes, Missing you is a ticking clock without a chime, Missing you is so much worse at Christmas time. Steph Spiers 2007 (first published) Remembering 1998

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The Gardening Tips series was produced by well known local gardening expert Mrs. FM Hartley as monthly gardening items which featured on an audio news-tape produced locally for partially sighted people. (Link To Stafford & Stone Talking Newspaper. Link To R.N.I.B.)

As such the articles are meant to be read individu-ally and not as chapters of a book. The articles were written over a period of some 7 years. RBW is absolutely delighted that Mrs Hartley has agreed to some of her words of gardening wisdom gathered over nine decades being reproduced for our benefit by her son, Alan.

Gardening Tips Week Ending September 7th

Hello Folks

Another month has gone by with very little Summery weather. It has not really

been cold, but very dull, making the Tomatoes slow to ripen this year, but the late

raspberries are doing well as are our Thornless Blackberries. The Curly Kale and

Chinese Cabbage look like lace curtains now from all the Cabbage White grubs, but

on looking very close the Cabbages are shooting from the base again.

Cuttings of perennials such as Penstemons, Doronicums, Ornamental Sage and

Thyme to name but a few can be taken now, as well as cuttings of semi-ripe wood

from shrubs. If you have Geraniums and have a special one, cuttings of these can be

taken, but as with all plants none flowering shoots are the best,

It is also time to go round your garden collecting seed-pods. It is best to dry the

pods and separate the seeds from the chaff keeping the seeds „till the appropriate

time for them to be sown. Some can be sown almost straight away and I have found

October is best for Geraniums. Do remember though that seeds saved from your

own plants may well produce plants with flowers that are different from their par-

ents. Geraniums are quite easy seeds to handle and after germination the young

plants should be kept growing on the window ledge over the coming Winter.

Many Perennials that have finished flowering and are getting over crowded,

can be dug up and divided. When re-planting them discard the old middle piece and

re-plant the new young shoots remembering to water them well.

The second lot of raspberries and runner beans are doing well now. The Garlic

also did quite well, but the tomatoes are not quite so good, due I think to the change-

able temperatures.

I have noticed there are a lot of Blueberry plants for sale now, perhaps because

Blueberries are supposed to be very good for you. We have one as they make a nice

change and add a bit of colour in a fresh fruit salad. They are quite easy to grow, but

be aware they do like an acid soil, if yours is clay, or lime, like mine, use a very

large pot to grow them in. If pots are too heavy for you to move, there are slatted

wooden stands about 10 inches square on 4 castors, available in some of the garden

centres. I have 4 and find them very useful.

If you like fresh figs they are another easy fruit to grow. They are nothing like the dried

figs sold in packets in shops etc. There are no seeds and should be plump and juicy when

picked about the size of a Victoria plum, I have had several off mine so far with more to come.

They are brown Turkey , they thrive best in poor soil and face south, roots should be restricted.

Do not plant close to the house walls.

The new bulbs are on sale now. I found some lovely double Narcissuses, with a slightly

coloured centre that are also highly scented. I shall definitely put some more in this year. If

Buddleias have finished flowering stems can be cut back. They seem to have put on a lot of

growth this year hard and pruning should be done late February next year, but cutting back a

bit now will save the wind rocking from them and loosening the roots. In fact any Summer

flowering shrubs can be pruned now. If you are pruning Hydrangeas only cut dead flowers off

and don‟t go too far down as next years flower buds will have started forming just below the

current years flowers.

The pruning of any Spring and Summer flowering shrubs that need it

should be finished by the end of September, unless it is something like a

Crab Apple that you are going to cut back severely, or even pollard, then

they are best left as late as possible in the Autumn before the first frosts,

to let the goodness and sap go down out of the leaves and branch tips. If

there is a week or two before the frost, the cut ends will have time to heal

over and prevent damage. Buddleias have flowered well this year and will

need cutting back a little to prevent the plant from rocking about in the

winds. If this is not done and they rock it will leave pockets round the roots that the frost can

get into. It is a good idea to leave them for a week or two as the birds love the seeds on them.

It is best to do the main cut, when they should be cut back hard, at the end of February. Also

prune the old fruiting stems on the early fruiting Raspberries but leave the new shoots as these

will fruit next year.

If you like Hyacinths in flower for Christmas they should be potted as soon as possible,

certainly no later than the last week in September. Prepared Hyacinths have been in a cold

store to make them think that they have wintered and thereby encourage them too flower early.

There are some very pretty pots in the Garden Centres now that contain bulbs and compost and

are reasonably priced. They make nice Christmas presents but they must be kept in a cool

place until you are ready to start them growing. If you have Lilies growing in pots keep them

watered until the foliage starts to die off and then stop watering. They can be kept outside

against a wall of the house for the winter and will be fine until the Spring comes.

That‟s all for now. Cheerio

Frances Hartley

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A chandelier of Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic, made of skulls and bones. © BrokenSphere / Wikime-dia Commons.

House of Bones Assignment: Research : Any dictionary will tell

you an ossuary is a chest, box, well, cave or place made for storage of human skeletal remains. It‘s a bone store, frequently used where burial space is scarce. The process: a body is buried in a

temporary grave, then after some years the remaining skeleton is removed with some ritual, cleaned and placed in an ossuary thus to save interment space.

Reburial of bones is an ancient practice. In Persia, the Zoroastrians used a well for ritual re-burial some 3,000 years ago called an astudan ("the place for bones"). Among the ancient Sogdi-ans in central Asia, an ossuary was a tanbar. In Europe reburial was widespread. The Ursulakammer in the Basilica of St. Ursula in Co-logne, is famous. In the 17th century it had the largest mosaic made of human bones ever cre-

ated. It covered four entire walls. European ossuaries include the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome; the San Bernardino alle Ossa in Milan; the Skull Chapel in Czermna in Lower Silesia, Poland; Capela dos Ossos ("Chapel of Bones") in Évora, Portugal. The village of Wamba in

Valladolid, Spain, has an ossuary of over a thousand skulls inside the church, dating from the 12th to 18th centuries. The Douaumont ossuary in France, contains the remains of more than 130,000 French and German soldiers from the Battle of Verdun during World War I.

Ossuaries are a tradition in the Orthodox Church. The remains of an Orthodox Christian are treated with special reverence. They believe the body is a "temple of the Holy Spirit‖ sanctified by

Baptism and Holy Communion. In Orthodox monasteries, when one of the brethren dies, his re-mains are buried for up to three years, and then disinterred, cleaned and gathered into the mon-astery's charnel house. If the person is considered saintly, the bones may be placed in a reliquary

(bone storage box, often ornate); the bones of the less than saintly are mixed together: often stacked skulls in one place, long bones in another.

In the custom of the Greek Orthodox Church. The dead are buried and on the third anniver-sary of death, the parish priest celebrates a parastas (memorial service), the remains are disin-terred, washed with wine, perfumed and placed in an ossuary box of wood or metal, inscribed with

the name and then placed in storage in the church. It is claimed during the Second Temple period, (The Second Temple period in Jewish history lasted between 530 BCE and 70 CE) Jewish custom included primary burials in caves, followed by

secondary burials in ossuaries placed in niches of the same burial caves. Some limestone ossuaries discovered in Jerusalem include intricate geometrical patterns and inscriptions identifying the de-

ceased. Among the best-known are an ossuary inscribed 'Simon the Temple builder' in the Israel Museum, another 'Elisheba, wife of Tarfon'. One saying 'Yehohanan ben Hagkol' contained an iron nail in a heel bone perhaps from a crucifixion, another was inscribed 'James, son of Joseph,

brother of Jesus', the authenticity is suspect. In 1980 ten ossuaries recovered from the Talpiot Tomb were reported to contain names from the New Testament. The custom of secondary burial

did not continue for long after 70 CE nor outside Israel. Apparently in those ancient times it was debated by the great and the good whether the oc-casion of the gathering of bones for secondary burial was a day of sorrow or rejoicing; it was re-

solved that it was a day of fasting in the morning and feasting in the afternoon. (Source Wikipedia and other websites)

Random Words: Spine park Queen crepuscular academic manoeuvre probability

―Broke her spine in the fall,‖ said Inspector Lascalles pushing the corpse with her toe. ―Who was she?‖ asked Miller, phone wedged under her ear while rifling through a handbag

which was a tricky manoeuvre while balancing on one leg over a rock pool. ―Doctor Graves. Evadne Graves. An academic from the college of Queen Mary & All Souls.‖

―Accident?‖ squinted Miller as her phone flashed orange in the increasingly crepuscular setting. ―In all probability,‖ said Lascalles, although what the good doctor was doing out here all alone

by the cliff-edge car-park was going to have to be ascertained before the Coroner would be happy. ―We need some CCTV ...‖ ―Don‘t we just ...‖ added the DS watching a gull heading towards the cliff face as darkness en-

closed the beach team like a shroud and the lapping of the incoming tide became more urgent.

My mother was no pushover

She was strong, resolute and firm

Her own woman, determined,

In fact, sure, to have her own way.

Doted on as her father‟s only child.

Chalk and cheese my Mum and Dad,

But maybe that‟s the answer

If after fifty or more years

You can still discuss issues of the day!

Tears never fell from my mother‟s eyes

Not for me to see anyway.

Her way of loving was undemonstrative

And sometimes, stupidly, I was unsure.

I can understand why people called her „hard‟

Condemnation was icy sharp

Her smiles had to be earned

But when she laughed

It was like all your birthdays had come at once

Infectious and side-splitting.

She had reason to be proud of her family

Perhaps she didn‟t think praise was necessary

That it went without saying

But here I am, ten years after her death

Weeping inconsolably, remembering

A difficult, complex woman,

Whose loss, still breaks my heart.

I AM A....

Snuggly, wuggly mummy

Lovey, dovey mummy

Dozy, cosy mummy

Weepy sleepy mummy

Happy, zappy mummy

Proudly, loudly mummy,

Besotted, knotted mummy

Do you get the message?

Remembering ...

RBW FICTION PROJECT FOR 2014/15 NOTES: ( CHANGES )

Story so far. There isn't one! Not yet, just a few plot strands ...

We have a place, a few names, some with a few character traits. What we need is more input into the plot lines, a few sub-plots would help as well.

This is a listing of what we have so far as a thinking aid. Place: Sometime in the 1890s The Grand Cosmopolitan Shipping Line Chain: The Nasturtium Hotel (GNH) in Trentby-on-Sea

a place that has a similarity to Southampton, this fair city is twinned with Murmansk and has a decided international flavour about it. Despite recent squabbles with Russia, France and certain other countries all rich spending foreigners are welcomed – particularly those with £££$$$ and other currency in their purses/pockets/reticules/wallets.

Time Span: Between the arrival and departure of the clipper ship The Star of Coldwynd Bay. About 3 weeks.

Hotel: The GNH is owned by The Cosmopolitan Shipping Line and is the usual Victorian Hotel. It has three classes of accommoda-

tion, that are roughly: Suites [1st floor] for those with money and the POSH nobs. Rooms [2nd and 3rd floors] for the not so well off.

Accommodation [tiny attic rooms, top floor back] for anyone else Staff:

Basil Bluddschott (70's) – Manager Mrs. Cynthia Bluddschott (20's) - 2nd (trophy) wife of Basil

Daniel Bluddschott (40) – Son of Basil by 1st wife Miss Marian Bluddschott (35) – Daughter of Basil by 1st wife Mrs. Natasha Bluddschott (34) – wife of Daniel

Roberto Manchini - Italian chef; has the hots for Natasha who returns the compliment. Mrs. Bertha Buckett – Laundress Peter, the porter There will also be a gaggle of sundry maids, porters etc.

Guests: Lady Vera Accrington and Lady Gloria Stanley – a couple of old biddies with a chequered past who are enjoying themselves

their Ward Dorothy ... much admired by the Maharajah Major Martin – May be the ADC to the Prince of ?? The Russian Prince of ?? Referred to as Mr. Smith; even tho' everybody know who he is.

Daphne Du Worrier - Writer Capt. Fowlnett – Recently appointed skipper of the clipper ship The Star of Coldwynd Bay. He may be a little short on experi-ence as his last job was skipper of the IOW ferry. [Hey! How difficult can it be to find India or China?]

St. John Smythe – Tea planter with holdings in Assam. The Maharajah of Loovinda and valet George

The Sheik of the province of Kebab. Walter Wales – Travel writer for Thos. Cooke.

Music Hall turns playing at 'The Winter Gardens', Also staying the GNH some in suites some in the Accommodation class. Miranda Barkley – maybe mistress of the Prince of ??

Dario Stanza – singer Vesta Currie – hot stuff on the stage Cystic Peg – Medium / Seances

Dan Fatso – Charlie Chaplin type ALSO listed:

Opium – not then illegal Ivory + Diamond dealer Boniface Monkface Jade - A rare Jade Buddha with spiritual & heritage significance is specifically noted by its absence..

NOTES: CHECK THE DATE! Q. Victoria is Empress. Osborne House IoW is her fav. des. res. 1. Gas lighting or oil lamps – no public electricity supply about for another couple of decades; unless the hotel has its own

generator, electrical lighting is out. 2. Horses and carriages in the streets, steam trains for long distances and on the dockside. Trams may be available in some

areas. 3. Limited number of phones, usually locally between ministries or business offices. Messengers or Royal Mail normally used. Telegrams are available.

Thoughts ...

It‘s a Cosmopolitan Hotel at the time of Empire.

We need to get diverse folks from absolutely everywhere into the storyline.

We need to reflect the times ... not our times ... their times. Money talks ... Same as ever ... It don‘t

matter where you‘re from if you‘ve got pockets full of dosh and you‘re a big tipper!

RBW Library Workshop group are working on a script for the next book. The ideas so far include a hotel in

the 1890s with as diverse a mix of travellers about to de-part for the far east as it is possible to squeeze into the

plot. Obviously the action will take place in Trentby-on-Sea, twinned with Murmansk, and

the establishment will be man-aged by Basil Bluddschott and his new wife Cynthia. If you‘ve ever watched a Carry On film you will have had all the training you‘d need to join in.

The annual joint project ...

The joint comedy is good practice in group co-operation, character building, plotting, dialogue, storyline arc etc and

besides it‘s hilarious to write.

What is more people actually read our free e-books ... Some brave souls even give us LIKES on Facebook

How unexpected was that ...

Once you‘ve written in one of our comedies you should be able to write anything equally as challenging on your own.

THE PALS BATTALIONS Peter Shilston’s blog, an extract ...

The months immediately following the declaration of war in August 1914 witnessed one of the

most extraordinary phenomena in recent British history, as hundreds of thousands of men, some

of them quite mature in years and others mere boys, flocked to volunteer for the army.

Before the war, Britain was the only major European country without a system of military

conscription. Her army was ridiculously small by Continental standards, and furthermore car-

ried little prestige with the mass of the general public. Army pay was too low to attract any

skilled workers (a soldier‟s pay was much lower than that of a coalminer, for instance), and the

ranks were recruited mostly from the countryside, and increasingly from Ireland and even from

India; with Sikhs forming more than 10% of the men in uniform. Officers were recruited from

the less academic younger sons of the landowning classes. Most of the great public

(independent) schools had an “Army Class” for those considered not bright enough to go to

university: Winston Churchill was in the “Army Class” at Harrow. The upshot of all this was

that very few people in Britain had any idea what military life was like; and soldiers were gen-

erally held in low esteem, as Kipling noted in his early writings.

In August 1914 there was a widespread belief that the war would be over by the end of the

year: the German “Schlieffen Plan”, for instance, envisaged capturing Paris within a few weeks.

But Lord Kitchener, Britain‟s most famous general, appointed Minister of War in August 1914,

in a flash of insight predicted that the war would last at least three years and that Britain would

need an army of a million men to fight it. He set himself to create a new army.

The campaign was an immediate success, as enormous numbers

volunteered, most of whom would never previously have considered

joining the army. This included for the first time large numbers from

the industrial cities in the north of England, where the military au-

thorities had previously not sought recruits; considering industrial

workers less physically fit than farm-boys, and likely to be contami-

nated with “trades-union attitudes”, making them less willing to ac-

cept orders unconditionally. But the new volunteers now included

factory workers, coalminers, clerks, shopkeepers, engineers, tram-

drivers, railwaymen and boys who lied about their age. It was all

very unorganized, and many of them would have been far more use

to their country‟s war-effort by remaining in their current jobs.

By the end of September, half a million men had volunteered; the

oldest, as far as is known, being 68, and the youngest 15. But how

could this enormous mass of civilians be turned into a proper army?

It was decided to keep the new recruits alongside their friends, neighbours and workmates,

forming new battalions*[i] (see footnote) of existing regiments. So were born the famous “Pals‟

Battalions”; a unique feature of British army in the First World War. So the 10th Lincolns were

the “Grimsby Chums”, the 12th, 13th and 14th Yorks & Lancs were the “Sheffield City Battalion”

and the 1st & 2nd “Barnsley Pals”, and the 15th Highland Light Infantry was drawn entirely from

employees of the Glasgow trams. The entire 93rd brigade was made up of four battalions of the

East Yorks, all coming from Hull, and were known as the “Hull Commercials”, “Hull Trades-

men”, “Hull Sportsmen” and “T‟ Others”. Two brigades, the 102nd and 103rd, all came from

Tyneside were made up of four battalions of Tyneside Scots and four of Tyneside Irish, offi-

cially known as the 20th – 27th Northumberland Fusiliers. The entire 36th division consisted of

thirteen battalions of Ulster Protestants, who just a few weeks earlier had been prepared to rise

in armed rebellion against the prospect of Irish Home Rule. The Lancashire cotton-

manufacturing town of Accrington was determined to be the smallest town in Britain to have its

own battalion, and the “Accrington Pals” duly became the 11th East Lancs. The oddest battalion

of all was the 16th Middlesex, which consisted of young men from the great public schools, who

were resolved not to seek commissions as officers but to fight in the ranks.

Who would command the new battalions? Kitchener called up several hundred officers from

the army in India who happened to be home on leave, and brought others out of retirement, some

of them now well over military age. The posts of junior officers were filled by around 2,000

young men straight from the universities and the great public schools, many of them only just

into their twenties, or even younger. So one new battalion, the 10th West Yorks, had just two offi-

cers who had served in the regular army. On the other hand a young chap from an exclusive

school could find himself responsible for a platoon of coalminers, some old enough to be his fa-

ther, and would somehow have to win their trust and respect. For many such young men it was their

first contact with the working classes, and the social consequences would be enormous.

The New Army started with no rifles, no barracks, not even sufficient uniforms; so their

early training would perforce consist of little except route-marches and square-bashing. This must

have been somewhat disillusioning, but nevertheless enthusiasm remained high. Meanwhile the

old British professional army, small in numbers, was mostly slaughtered by the end of 1914, and

in 1915 the war was largely kept going by the Territorial brigades. The New Army was held back

for the “big push” of 1916, remembered as the battle of the Somme.

It was without question the most educated, the most literate and also the most enthusiastic

army that Britain had ever sent overseas. But ultimately the high command did not really trust the

New Army. The tactics laid down for them for the first day of the Somme offensive were the sim-

plest possible: when the artillery bombardment lifted, they were to march slowly and in forma-

tion across No Man‟s Land towards the German trenches; forbidden to run or to take cover.

The result, famously, was disaster. On that day, July 1st 1916, 20,000 British troops were

killed and twice that number wounded. The young officers especially suffered: of those who went

“over the top” leading their men, no fewer than 75% became casualties. Twenty of the Pals bat-

talions lost over 500 men that day, and ceased to exist as viable units; including all eight of the

Tynesiders, three of the Ulstermen, the Public Schools battalion, and the Leeds, 1st Bradford and

Accrington Pals. Back in Accrington, the rumour spread that all their men had been killed, and

crowds besieged the town hall demanding to be told the truth.

The battle of the Somme continued as a grinding attrition until it finally petered out in the No-

vember mud. Every British Prime Minister between 1940 and 1963 had fought at the Somme;

Churchill, Attlee, Eden and Macmillan, who was seriously wounded. Almost all the war poets

were there: Siegfried Sassoon won the Military Cross and Robert Graves was so badly wounded

he was left for dead, and it was only by chance that a medical orderly noticed he was still breath-

ing. The roll-call also included the great socialist historian R. H. Tawney (also wounded), J. R. R.

Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, A. A. Milne ….. the list goes on and on. One wonders how many men of

equal talent and potential did not survive. As enthusiasm turned to disillusionment and horror, it

is little wonder that so many, especially amongst the young officers, began to write poetry. They

identified with the sufferings of their men, and were bitterly critical of the top brass, men of their

own social class, whom they portrayed as being both callous and stupid. This remains the popular

image of First World War generals to this day. But there were to be no more Pals battalions: the

experiment was abandoned and never repeated. Kitchener did not live to see the slaughter of his

new army. Forced out of the war cabinet by his colleagues, it was decided to send him to Russia

to advise the ailing Tsarist regime; but he never got there. In June 1916 his ship struck a German

mine somewhere off the north of Scotland, and he was drowned.

(For further reading, I would particularly recommend "The First Day on the Somme" by Martin Middlebrook, and "The Great War and

Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell)

[i] A British battalion at this time contained, in theory, up to 1,000 men and about 26 officers. In the First World War, a battalion in

attack would probably involve 700-800 men and most of the officers

National Poetry Day, remember? (Publicity release)

Remember! Thursday 2 October 2014

National Poetry Day is a nationwide celebration of poetry that shakes poetry from its dust-jacket into

the nations‘ classrooms, streets, offices, shops, playgrounds, train stations and airwaves, through live events, happenings, classroom activities and spontaneous uncontrollable outbursts of poetry. Join in, download some cool posters and tell us what fun you are having via Twitter #nationalpoetryday

Here are some favourite poems on this year‘s theme of Remember. Use the Remember tag on the poetry page for more.

I remember, I remember by Thomas Hood Do you remember an inn, Miranda? by Hilaire Belloc

Remember me when I am gone away by Christina Rossetti Remember, remember the fifth of November Anon

Eight new poems for primary school children written especially by our

National Poetry Day Ambassadors

To keep in touch by Liz Brownlee

Remembering by Liz Brownlee

Poets are Photographers by Paul Cookson Remembering is our duty by Paul Cookson

The Family Book by Brian Moses

In an old dog‘s memory by Brian Moses

Whole body memory by Jan Dean Dear Mug by Roger Stevens

News of the programme and the special events planned by the NPD partners will be announced, but in the meantime there are lots of opportunities to join in – find events of all shapes and sizes in the

what‘s on section.

See Submit an Event for information on how to host and promote your own event.

National Poetry Day, remember? Remember! Thursday 2 October 2014

http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/

Staffordshire Poet Laureate and Young Staffs Laureate should be announced on Oct 2nd. RBW is holding a Remembering poetry session in workshop on Monday 29th Sept.

RBW 2015 poetry collection

“Defying Gravity” Submissions now open.

DO NOT DELAY Once we’re full, we’re full.

RBW are planning a

second

Short Story e-collection

perhaps with a guest editor!

Watch this space for

more details.

Suggestions for a

‘Theme’ welcomed.

POETRY LIBRARY UPDATE Latest Competitions: The Tenth Annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2014 | Closing Date: 01-Dec-14 http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/competitions/?id=1635 The Poetry Box Halloween Poetry Annual Award 2014 | Closing Date: 31-Dec-14 http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/competitions/?id=1636 Latest News: Next Generation Poets 2014 announced 11-Sep-14 http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/news/poetryscene/?id=1228 Contribute to Dylan's Great Poem | 11-Sep-14 http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/news/poetryscene/?id=1227 Rug Rhymes : for the Under 5s | 11-Sep-14 http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/news/library/?id=1226

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