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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
#CILIPS16
“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/[email protected]
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
07856 853675 [email protected]@mixedmessages1
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
