{"id":4106,"date":"2018-04-21T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T10:09:49","slug":"uog-students-launch-the-2018-cheltenham-poetry-festival-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2018\/04\/21\/uog-students-launch-the-2018-cheltenham-poetry-festival-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"UoG students launch the 2018 Cheltenham Poetry Festival in style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BarCreative Writers at the University of Gloucestershire last week kicked off the 2018 Cheltenham Poetry Festival <\/a>with two great events in Cheltenham bars. Scores of people attended Bar Room Bards at the Railway Inn, hearing performances of classic bar-themed poems, including readings from a disheveled Bukowski, an elegant Yeats, and a mustachioed Rudyard Kipling whose rendition of “Gentlemen Rankers” involved a mass sing along.<\/p>\n

\"barThere were several competitions on the night, and congratulations to the winners who have now been contacted by email. See the bottom of this post for the answers.<\/p>\n

The evening also produced a poem, based on \u201cthings you only say or do after you\u2019ve been drinking\u201d:<\/p>\n

I say I love you, I love you, I love you
\nI say let\u2019s go to Cotswold Kebab
\nI say I\u2019m totally straight
\nI say let\u2019s make plans to do that thing
\nI chat breeze, flossin
\nI say let\u2019s get cocktails
\nI fall over, like, 17 times
\nI talk to you about Dumbledore
\nAnd I am crying!
\nI\u2019m doing the Lounge dance
\nI hug people
\nI say Tinos and don\u2019t even know what it means
\nI say I\u2019m totally straight
\nI say I want egg fried rice
\nI say Regina Spektor broke my foot
\nAnd I say I love you
\nI say I love you
\nI say let\u2019s get cocktails
\nI say, I\u2019ll message you in the morning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, and there was this collectively written\u2026 poem:<\/p>\n

One night I went to the Railway Inn
\nAnd I heard the most terrible din
\nIt used to be a famous sausage kitchen
\nAlrig\u2019 me loven!
\nYou\u2019ve got a lush ass, oh wow!
\nWhen I see it, my mind goes pow.
\nAnd stops, sees, minds \u2013 gazes
\nGosh. I haven\u2019t felt like this in ages
\nFelt as if my stomach imploded
\nMy heart melting, or my intestines exploded
\nHair is brown, eyes are blue,
\nI wonder how much of this is true?
\nOrder me a Maker\u2019s Mark and coke
\nGet over \u2018ere cuz u is woke
\nOne day I saw her clear as night
\nAnd stepped up close to hold her tight
\nShe gave a laugh. She gave a cry.
\nShe said, I\u2019ll never say goodbye
\nBut I knew that was a bluff
\nYou know that fake beer? Duff
\nShe said, Sometimes I follow through
\nIf you get too near it\u2019ll be on you
\nThen the barrel of Skinner\u2019s gun kissed my cheek
\nAnd he told me my Duff was [illegible]
\nI said, \u201cYou really missed the meme there.\u201d
\nAnd he: \u201cEh, what do I care?\u201d
\n\u201cI love democracy, I love the republic,\u201d said I.
\n\u201cHave you ever played Devil may cry?\u201d
\nCells dovetail in strange cravings,
\nAnd leave us cracked in love\u2019s crazy pavings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm.<\/p>\n

\"story<\/p>\n

\"storyThen, on Thursday night, attention turned to the inaugural Cheltenham Story Slam (above), where a number of UoG stars competed for the prizes. It was a splendid evening, hosted excellently by performance poet Chloe Jacquet. We were well represented with Rod Griffiths, Hannah Stubbs, Elliot Dallow, Eleanor Winterbottom, Isabella Gartside, Asha Sutton, and Claire Harrison all performing superbly. Eleanor Winterbottom qualified for the final, and special congratulations to Isabella Gartside, who was overall runner up, and to Claire Harrison, who won the whole competition!<\/p>\n

\"slamThanks to everyone who attended and supported these events. There are still loads of great events to come at the Poetry Festival, so do check out the full programme<\/a>. Two UoG lecturers are in action soon: Lania Knight will be reading at 7pm on Sunday 22nd<\/sup><\/a>, and Angela France presents her multimedia poetry <\/a>show, The Hill, <\/em>at 7pm on Wednesday 25th<\/sup>. Both events are at the Cheltenham Playhouse.<\/p>\n

Here are the competition answers:<\/p>\n

The correct last lines for Emily Dickinson\u2019s \u201cI Taste a Liquor Never Brewed\u201d are:<\/p>\n

To see the little Tippler
\nLeaning against the \u2013 sun!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The correct last lines for James Thomson\u2019s \u201cThe Wine of Love: are:<\/p>\n

He reeleth with his own heart,
\nThat great rich vine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The missing words from William Aytoun\u2019s \u201cThe Empty Bottle\u201d were:<\/p>\n

A: bottle
\nB: beer
\nC: gush
\nD: shell
\nE: temple<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The missing words from Edna St. Vincent Millay\u2019s \u201cTavern\u201d were:<\/p>\n

A: crest
\nB: chill
\nC: traveller
\nD: tend
\nE: good<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations to all the prize winners who have been contacted by email this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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