My poem on the underground…

This illustrates what I feel like everyday… I’m bursting!!!
Pic by Natasha Warren

on the Poetry Takeaway…

…with the very lovely John Osborne and Tim Clare.
I only mention it because it is such a magical thing to do.
Photo by Hayley Madden.

Smoking… (photo by Paddy Considine)

It’s no good having sharp images if your ideas are fuzzy.
Dan and Martin may be out of focus but their ideas are pin sharp.
See you in Edinburgh Gunslingers.

Something to entertain you… Poetry by Daniel Cockrill (oh, that’s me) Animation by the brilliant Richard Jackson and music by the lovely Julian Ward… enjoy.

The Fauvist In Spring from Autumnal Plume on Vimeo.

So this is what happened at the Camden Crawl…

We stuffed everything in the back of Martin’s car… including his son Victor.

Then off to the venue… and like a well oiled machine we set up.

We kept an eye on our beers…

Martin kicked it all off… Rude Bastards

Then Rob… Laaaaadies and Geeeentlemen…

and then Wallop …

Fiona Bevan, Pete The Temp, Karen Hayley, Sean Taylor, PolarBear, AntiPoet…

Now bring on the Camden Crawl 2011 Slam

Clair Whitefield was in there too but I forgot to snap a picture because i was blinded by her beauty…
AND THE WINNER IS….

ANNA LE – GAYMERS CAMDEN CRAWL 2011 POETRY SLAM CHAMPION

That was 3 hours of top entertainment… THE END

Lebt in Essex. Erstes Buch ‘Pie and Papier mache’ (2007). Fuhrt regelmassig Poetry Slams durch, wo er selbst auftritt, unter dem Motto: “Fur Menschen, die normalerweise nicht unter Bettdecken schlafen, die aus Gedichtbanden gemacht sind”. Seine Biografie fasst er so: Dan was born in Essex blah blah blah blah…

Which Google brilliantly translate as this..

Lives in Essex. First book, ‘Pie and Papier-mache’(2007). Leads regular poetry slams moderately by where it occurs even under the slogan: “For people who sleep normally not covered by blankets, are made ​​of poems”. His biography, he summarizes this way: Dan was born in Essex blah blah blah blah …

Excellent.

Apparently this is the Google translation…
“An outstanding slam poet, chick magnet, all round nice guy and a large format photographer to show their home, as it is – beautiful, sad, corrosive. Their collaboration is both a declaration of love as a bitter indictment of the down badly shattered England of today and the contradictions of our affluent life”.

I’m in this months edition of Du magazine along side John Steinbeck, Raymond Carver, Robert Capa to name but a few. John Steinbeck’s Mum is really proud. Steinbeck’s Mum has no idea who I am. My mum has no idea who Steinbeck is.
It is a german magazine. I can’t read a bloody word. This is what they said about the work. Ein Slam-Poet und ein Grossformat-Fotograf zeigen ihre Heimat, wie sie ist – schön, traurig, ätzend. Ihre Zusammenarbeit ist sowohl eine Liebeserklärung wie auch eine bittere Anklage an das runtergewirtschaftete England von heute und die Widersprüche unseres Wohlstandslebens. Nice.

when London’s Premiere Poetry Club do lunch. We have done to business lunch what we did for poetry… made it interesting. Business meetings will never be the same again.

Wow.. who is the hot redhead? Oh, it’s Sarah (Head of Merchandise), must of had my beer goggles on.

Apparently, Sarah has a good side. Rob doesn’t have a good side. Martin is all good. And Dan just is…
The MUNSTERS

BANG SAID THE GUN