a couple of quick updates. I have started to update the Calendar to include events where our members are performing. If you have something to submit please do so.
I have also added a Shop section to the Links page which gives you links where you can buy work from our members. Please let me know if you have amendments/updates.
From Terry:
The
Korova Arts Café is starting a continuous three month cycle of Storytelling,
Poetry and Prose to take place on the first Tuesday of each month. It’s kicking
off with Storytelling in October and Prose will be in December.
November will be Poetry and I’ve been asked to arrange
the evening which happens to fall on the 5th and that’s too tempting
to ignore.
But
what is it we’re celebrating on Bonfire Night? Is it Guy Fawkes? I’m saying that it isn’t and that what we’re
celebrating is what civilisations over the years have always celebrated which is
Fire or the Night.
So,
I’m asking you to bring a poem which makes sense now. A new reason to have a
Bonfire Night.
This
is part of a poem written some years ago to give a sense of where I would
go:
Gagarin
Night
Guy
Fawkes is dead,
born
Fifteen Seventy,
died
thirty years ago,
sometime
in late September.
Over
the road they’re having a bonfire,
November
the twelfth,
the
only day they’re free
and
the Council prefers Friday,
something
about transport.
So
what’s the point?
Wrapping
up, roasting chestnuts,
remember,
remember, the 5th of November,
gunpowder,
treason and what
is
the point of the night?
