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Comment on Members’ News by wardabel

wardabel — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:46:03 +0000

My new full book of poetry, Jonesing for Byzantium, published by UKA Press, is available at Amazon, etc., at http://www.amazon.com/Jonesing-Byzantium-L-Ward-Abel/dp/190579603X/sr=11-1/qid=1163426074/ref=sr_11_1/002-6340998-5020034 .

Comment on Links to members websites and blogs by tamo

tamo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:38:09 +0000

Blog on, Nessa!…Very timely project. My multimedia site (including fiction, poetry & performance) is:

http://www.zendurl.com/t/tamo/index.htm

As I prefer Quicktime/Apple to Bill Gates technology, browsers other than IE work the best…

Tamo
(Tom Noonan)

Comment on DWW virtual workshop by Nessa O'Mahony

Nessa O'Mahony — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:26:38 +0000

Hi Peter

I think both parts are lovely, precise pieces of writing … you make the link between the particular and the general very well, particularly in the second part where you link the photographer with Brueghel …. I’m wondering whether you need the word ‘visualised’ in the second line of the first part, having already said the image had formed .. also ‘flaccid’ bothers me in the second part … doesn’t seem apt for wht is being described.

Comment on DWW virtual workshop by peters

peters — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:07:50 +0000

Okay…Here’s something I’ve been working on last week:

THE MIRACLE OF THE IMAGE
‘…the miracle of the image is a triumph of the imagination.’ (Ansel Adams)

i. Motion arrested

An image forms
in his mind, visualised.

Cold, clear grasses
shiver above ground,

the horizon flowers,
a brittle-blue sea.

Photons pour through the lens,
agitate the halide crystals.

ii. Commercial photography

A flaccid, graven image.
He positioned her between
two metal light-box reflectors
set at one-tenth second and
synchronised with the flash.

Brueghel used tempera on canvas
in his Parable of the Blind,

a blend of egg yolk
and pigment, without
the plastic capabilities of flash
bulbs exploding, scattering
little pieces of glass into white hair.

Comment on Links to members websites and blogs by patmullan

patmullan — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:35:41 +0000

Hello Nessa,

Thanks for adding the MYSpace link for me. Here’s a couple more if you like to add them:

http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/patmullan

http://morganmandelbooks.ning.com/profile/patmullan

Slan, Pat

Comment on Members’ News by Nessa O'Mahony

Nessa O'Mahony — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:02:37 +0000

Aurora Antonovic has been in touch to tell us about a blog she and other former Electric Acorn poets are involved in. I’ll add it to the blogroll, but here is the URL

http://magnapoets.typepad.com/magnapoets_free_verse_and/

Comment on Links to members websites and blogs by joannamary

joannamary — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:15:09 +0000

My blog is: http://giovannamaria.typepad.com

This DWW blog is a great idea!

Comment on Members’ News by jimhayes

jimhayes — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:05:34 +0000

My first collection The Bad Habits of Little Boys has just been published in America in hardback by Clock & Rose press. http://www.roses-books.com 165 pages illustrated by Janet Kenny complete with full length CD. Check out the reviews on site. Search under author.

Jim

Comment on DWW virtual workshop by jimhayes

jimhayes — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:52:09 +0000

This is smooth and eviocative, captures the moment and the mood well. I’m not sure of the opening line seems just a tad too self-conscious when you really want to go straight to the heart of the experience.

The end is fitting and effective, I particularly like the additional meanings of give grace.

All Best
Jim

Comment on Electric Acorn Vol 2 – July 07 by Nessa O'Mahony

Nessa O'Mahony — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:08:38 +0000

I’m very proud to be involved with the relaunched Electric Acorn … which will be appearing monthly from now on, I hope. Any comments or feedback very welcome.