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Poet deVine

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0 posted 2003-01-27 06:11 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2541761.stm

quote:

A North East writer has been given a grant of £2,000 to use sheep to create random poems, which also utilise the deepest workings of the universe.
The money has been provided by Northern Arts for Valerie Laws to create a new form of "random" literature.

Each of the animals has a word from a poem written on their backs and as they wander about the words take a new poetic form each time they come to rest

What do you think?

brian madden
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1 posted 2003-01-27 06:38 PM

I thought I was the only person who used this method to write poetry. I am going to have to speak to my lawyers.

got hips like cinderella must be having a good shame talking sweet about nothing
cookie i think you're tame" The Pixies

Poet deVine

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2 posted 2003-01-27 07:59 PM

Or your sheep...

jade dragoness
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3 posted 2003-01-27 08:09 PM

ROTFLMAO at that image. What a silly thought. Will they jump over fences in my sleep? Perhaps that's the newest muse methodology?

Poet deVine

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4 posted 2003-01-27 08:42 PM

And now it can be revealed how Shakespeare REALLY wrote all his stuff:

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http://poetdevine.netpoets.net/Shakespeare.html

[This message has been edited by Poet deVine (01-27-2003 08:45 PM).]

anonymousfemale
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Limbo

5 posted 2003-01-27 08:54 PM

lol - amusing. You know everything's gone haywire when they have to use animals and spray paint as poetic inspiration rather than for assorted naughtiness.

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note." -- Gore Vidal

[This message has been edited by anonymousfemale (01-27-2003 08:55 PM).]

hush
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6 posted 2003-01-27 09:19 PM

What a neat idea...

Larry C

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7 posted 2003-01-27 11:15 PM

Personally, I think it's a baaaaaaaaaaaaaad idea.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Kielo
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8 posted 2003-01-27 11:41 PM

I'm a sheep... Somehow I think this was a bad thread in which to make that revelation... Leaving now...

Kielo

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PoetryIsLife

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9 posted 2003-01-28 12:05 PM

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Huxley

Kielo
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10 posted 2003-01-28 12:16 PM

Are you laughing at my sheepiness? I warn you, I am a sheep! You may laugh at my brains, my wool, or my smartness, but if you laugh at my sheepiness, one of us must die!

Bernard Shaw has my most humble apologies for butchering one of his lines... It was one of my favorites... Passion, Poison and Petrifaction.

Kielo

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Sunshine

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11 posted 2003-01-28 07:06 AM

http://www.magneticpoetry.com/magnet/vmpa.htm I think they stole the idea from THIS place!

Nan

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12 posted 2003-01-28 08:05 AM

Didn't Homer use sheep in the "Odyssey"?... Is the Cyclops writing this new poetry???..

Sunshine

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13 posted 2003-01-28 08:49 AM

Ok, everyone grab a placard with the word of your choice and get in line!

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (01-28-2003 08:50 AM).]

brian madden
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14 posted 2003-01-28 01:34 PM

Sharon, I don't use sheep everyone knows can't read as for their grasp on rhyme and assonance well don't even get me started....

I mean "Baa Ram Ewe, to your fleece your kind this creed be true" what kind of poetry is that?

got hips like cinderella must be having a good shame talking sweet about nothing
cookie i think you're tame" The Pixies

[This message has been edited by brian madden (01-28-2003 04:02 PM).]

Marshalzu

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15 posted 2003-01-28 05:16 PM

1. Take money and buy return fair for bus and journey into town.

2. Buy a pen, pad and hat.

3. Buy and consume coffee.

4. Write words on peices of torn up paper from the pad.

5. Get members of the public to pick a peice of paper out of the hat.

6. Write poem on remainder of pad with chosen words.

7. Put hat on head.

8. Travel home.

Estimated Cost £10

This story came out of my area, now I'm not big in the arts scene but I know the value of money and I have to say that Northern Arts have made a huge mistake. A can of spray paint costs £2.50 each even if they bought 100 cans that would be £250 and sheep go for around £3 each in places... so thats only £300 if you but 100, we are now upto £550... now you don't need an artist to write words on sheep so no fee there and you can sell them straight on after you've finished with them so I fail to see where the rest of the money is being spent...

Skyfire

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16 posted 2003-01-28 08:17 PM

girls, booze and cars.

Monkey!!

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