Issue 7 poetandgeek.com out now

Lucky 7!

Cross over into the world of poetandgeek.com featuring new international poetry from Joan McNerney, Paul Tristram, Daniel Roy Connelly, Maeve Henry, Yann Rousselot, Fanni Suto, Marc Carver, Thomas Clark, Sheree Mack, Rafa Ayala in translation by Roger Hickin, Jane Aldous, Michael Lee Johnson, Sara Clark, Sye Sanders. And the alt-interview is back with the fearless Andrew Forster and Andrew Fisher.

Read more here http://www.poetandgeek.com/issue7/issue07.html

Return of the alt-interview

Issue 7 is due out and we are glad to say that the alt-interview is back.

If you haven't come across this form of interview before, it is an anti-interview technique. The interviewees make their choice from a selection of (quite) random questions. The aim is to uncover information about them that a more familiar method would leave untouched. In issue 7 poet Andrew Forster and scrabble champion Andrew Fisher take the challenge.

Let us know if you want to...

Previous alt-interviewees include poet Peter Hughes and art taxidermist David Blyth.

You can read them here http://www.poetandgeek.com/issue1/issue01.html

Poetry by Heart October 30th 2013 Leeds England

Another great event in Leeds. This advertises itself with pictures of cakes; Shore Poets in Edinburgh being the main cake-led performance venue for poetry that p&g has encountered previously, we can vouch that pictures of cakes guarantee a good night out.

I know: I have eaten the lemon cake.

Plus the pleasure of hearing work from Pat Borthwick, Oz Hardwick,  Alistair Noon,  Joanna Sedgwick, Adam Strickson and Noel Whittall. But maybe not in that order.

Where? Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, LS6 3HN Leeds. Turn up from 7.30pm. Free admission.

A lot more information available here https://www.facebook.com/events/325806820897174/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&suggestsessionid=b670408c8ae16ec842bde181c0ad3661

Call for radio poetry

Radio Wildfire want your stuff.

During this October they have broadcast:

• poetry and spoken word with music and soundscape from The Little Typists (England), Stephen Mead (New York), the duo Kinsame (France), Huw Parsons and his collaborators (Wales) and Albarz (England).
• poetry unaccompanied from Sarah James and Sarah Harrison.
• Roy Mcfarlane's poetry group collaboration with Jean Binta Breeze.

You could be next. Get over to http://www.radiowildfire.com/submit/ to find out how.

Day of the Dead poems

A little early to be sure but poetry is bound up with Mexican celebrations of the Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead.

This runs from the 31st October to the 2nd November connecting with the Christian festival time of Hallowmas. That is the day before All Hallows (Hallowe'en), All Hallows or All Saints itself and All Souls.

Me muero todos los días...Julie Sopetrán

You can find out more here http://www.dayofthedead.com/poemas

Call for poetry poetandgeek.com Issue 8

p&g are opening the call for poetry for Issue 8 due out in May 2014.

Full details on www.poetandgeek.com where co-incidentally the many pleasured harvest of p&g Issue 7 will be also brought to fruition shortly.

Poetandgeek.com competition 2013 results

Many congratulations to the winner of this year's poetry competition:

Joan McNerney (USA) for her poem Lost landscape. The judge's notes commended the poem's strong central metaphor, command of form and material both lyrically and in a manner reminiscent of Robert Frost "satisfyingly enigmatic".

The runners-ups are as follows:

Rafael Ayala Paez/Roger Hickin translation (Venezuela/New Zealand) - Impressions

Sheree Mack (UK) - Leaving home

The competition was judged by Scottish poet Andrew McCallum.

You can read all poems in Issue 7 - out soon - of poetandgeek.com.