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\nFair Weather Confidante
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\nWe\u2019ll not howdy-do you once more
\nNow you\u2019re in Parliament.
\nVotes fabricated, you\u2019re exorbitantly loaded,
\nYou\u2019ll shove consorting with us.
\nToothy grins aren\u2019t engaged,
\nQualms are ballooning.
\nThe bank\u2019s your handpicked chum.
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\nThe Former Mrs. Homer
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\nSo In a twitch, you\u2019re divorced.
\nOn blue moons we\u2019ll dwell upon you.
\nAll that consorting with your ex-hitch
\nDidn\u2019t woo you.
\nThe fleshy debauchery sears.
\nThose hearts-and-flowers you once gave away
\nSeem pipe dreams now\u2026a laughingstock.
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\nGayla Joy
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\nThe blowout\u2019s intemperate,
\nCut-and-thrust.
\nGood morning \u2013 you\u2019re safe havened from rehab.
\nGranny\u2019s manic on whiz,
\nDaddums\u2019 swigged a Pilsner loch.
\nThe missy you cried off to us
\nRetches in a dog bowl.
\nWelcome back Sis, we\u2019ve enough for you.
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\nGoodtime Sheryl
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\nAn earth-shaking straw in the wind.
\nQuit hoarding all over-the-counters together.
\nMulti-vitamins aren\u2019t morning-after remedies;
\nPronto, something unlooked-for fattens.
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\nCobwebbed Gifts
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\nWe\u2019re sad-voiced that hoarder, Aiden Muchene, croaked.
\nThe Will sound-out bequeaths you all.
\nMusing helpfully, it was a benevolent gesture.
\nIt\u2019ll take a glacial epoch to unsnarl \u2013
\nFive skips invincible
\nTo release the draff.
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\nIn 1998 I won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 I read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology ‘Titles Are Bitches’. Christmas 2001 I debuted at Newcastle’s famous Morden Tower doing a reading of my poems. Each year I read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and I partook in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of my collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6\/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
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\n On Saturday 16Th August 2003 I read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.
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\nChristmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored me to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North. I made a radio programme for Web FM community radio about my writing group. October-November 2005, I entered a poem\/visual image into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty’s Newcastle. This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne. I made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords, it contains my poem The Old Heave-Ho. I worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, including a film piece by the artist Predrag Pajdic in which I read my poem On Brenkley St. The event was funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bio-science Centre at Newcastle’s Centre for Life. I was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children’s literature building.
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\nThe South Bank Centre in London recorded my poem “The Holiday I Never Had”, I can be heard reading it on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk\/magazine\/record.asp?id=18456<\/strong>
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\nREVIEWS: I have written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine and in August 2007 I made a film called ‘A Blank Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot’ for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem… On September 4 2010, I read at the Callander Poetry Weekend hosted by Poetry Scotland. I have also written Art Criticism for Peel and Combustus Magazines. I was involved in The Creative Engagement In Research Programme Research Constellation exhibitions of writing and photography which showed in London (march 13 2012) and Edinburgh (July 4 2013)
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop<\/strong> is Editor of\u00a0Poetry Life and Times<\/a>\u00a0his publications include\u00a0All the Babble of the Souk<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Cartoon Molecules<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>collected poems and\u00a0Key of Mist<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>the recently published\u00a0Tesserae<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>translations from Spanish poets\u00a0Guadalupe Grande\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Carmen Crespo\u00a0\u00a0visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop\u00a0<\/a>about author. \u00a0See Robin performing his work\u00a0Performance (Leeds University)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n