FIRE Number 35; Final Issue

Well; it's writing of a sort.

Within the next few days I should be getting my first proofreading assignment; unfortunately the work won't be regular - just on an ad hoc basis. At least I'll be earning a bit of money though.

Update, July 2010

Things have been unusually quiet for the last six months; I've not been writing a lot really, but have sent off several dozen poems to magazines. I've received a few rejection slips, but I've still not heard from several editors.

Some good news: my scanner is working again, so I'll be able to continue posting scans of the front covers of publications in which my work appears.

Some venues where I've performed my poetry

Otley Arts Festival 1992

Doncaster Literature Festival 1992

Dean Clough Arts Centre, Halifax

Another of my poems that's just appeared online.

Here's the link


http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=20444

Candelabrum October 2009

What have my blog visitors been searching for?

Using the keyword analysis provided by StatCounter, here are some of the more unusual terms.

What equals 64?
What letter equals the number 6?
3 line bio
What number equals 49
Lost 4th dimension.


I think they might have been disappointed.

Dylan Thomas

Here's a link to a friend's webpage; he's a songwriter and lists myself and Dylan Thomas as his influences.

www.myspace.com/howardrowe

Presence 38

This magazine doesn't even have a title.

Horace

This is actually how my poem appeared in the magazine, in the top right corner of the page. I maybe should have placed the page at an angle whwn I was scanning it.

Horace

I've just made two attempts to upload scans of my poems in a magazine called 'Horace' which I only received this morning although it seems to have been published last year. I'll have another go with the scans tomorrow at the library.

Writers' Workshop

The writers' workshop which I'm leading at the community centre at Rossington has been going for four weeks now. At the moment there are three regular attendees; I'd prefer a few more, but it's enough.

So far we've done one writing exercise, from which I produced a poem which I'll be able to submit for publication.

Words that I'd use to describe my poetry.

minimalist
imagist
ludic
staccato
onomatopoetic
situational
'what if?'
wordplay

It passes the time

I've spent the morning at Rossington leading the writers' workshop. The bus journey back into town takes twenty minutes and so I passed the time by writing this short poem.


NIGHT OUT
He noticed the sign that read
'No glasses beyond this point.'
He didn't see the next one though.

A busy start to the New Year

I estimate I must have posted off my poems to about twenty magazines so far this month. Already six of my short poems have been accepted for publication by Presence magazine.

Performance Venues

It's been several years since I last did a poetry reading or led a workshop. I'm just recalling the venues where I've read or been involved with a workshop.

DARTS Community Arts, Doncaster
Alcohol Services, Doncaster
MIND [mental health charity], Doncaster
Poacher's Inn, Rossington, Doncaster
The Leopard [pub], Doncaster
Goldthorpe Library, Rotherham
A pub at Otley, Leeds
Dean Clogh Arts Centre, Halifax
Sheffield Hallam University
De Gray's Rooms, York
A community centre at Wakefield
A pub in Sheffield
Huddersfield Library
Ilkley Playhouse
A cafe in Lincoln during a literature festival

Great Works - Online Magazine

NINE POEMS




http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf1.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf2.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf3.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf4.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf5.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf6.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf7.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf8.html

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/alf9.html

Splizz

Here's a link to my poem that appears online.

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:xWJGWYr3eFAJ:www.stmarys4.freeserve.co.uk/Splizz.htm+lee+firth+poetry&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=80&gl=uk

Sentinel Literary Quarterly, September 2007 - Online Sample