Friday, March 27, 2009
ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΟ - ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ ΕΙΔΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ
THE MEDITERRANEAN WRITERS GROUP WRITERS’ RETREAT, AGROS,CYPRUS, 2-3 MAY 2009 The Mediterranean Writers Group is hosting a writers’ retreat at the Rodon Hotel in Agros, Cyprus, situated in the isolated, mountainous region of Pitsilia, for the weekend of 2-3 May 2009 with the aim of allowing serious writers of fiction, poetry, and other forms of creative writing the opportunity to have the time and space to focus on their craft, share their work with other serious writers, and to soak up the natural environment of the region. The Med Writers Group has organized this 2-day mini-retreat combining creative writing workshops with readings, book swaps, and structured activities like nature walks and guided conversations related to their work. Of course, the retreat is also about having time away from the pressures of daily life to write in peace and solitude. The retreat is open to writers of all levels, and costs €92,00 total. The deadline to register is Friday, 3 April 2009. Schedule of Activities Saturday, 2 May 2009 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Creative Writing Workshop (short fiction). This workshop allows writers of short fiction to practice various forms of prose experimentation in an unhindered forum, guided by an experienced creative writing instructor. 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch at local taverna Pantheon Cafe 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Creative Writing Workshop (poetry). This workshop allows poets the opportunity to try out new ways of approaching their craft, including exercises in prose poetry, narrative, lyric, and longer forms of poetry. 5:30 p.m. Book Swap. Participants will exchange books with each other, free of charge, as a means to both expanding their libraries and sharing what they have learned. Poetry, fiction, literary biography, and critical books all welcome. 7 p.m. Poetry and Fiction Reading. Members of the Med Writing Group will present a sampling of their short fiction and poetry at the Rodon Hotel, some with musical accompaniment. 8 p.m. Writing Time. The evening is set aside for undisturbed quiet time writing, with only one rule: that no participant contact another during this period, and that mobile phones remain switched off. Sunday, 3 May 2009 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Fiction and Poetry Response Workshop. This workshop allows participants the opportunity to share with the group and receive commentary on the writing they produced at the workshop the previous day and night. 12 p.m. Book Presentations. Each member will present a brief summary of a recent book they have read and liked, with quotations from the book where suitable, in the form of a mini-review and recommendation. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Picnic Lunch on Nature Walk. Participants will take an hour-long trail hike on undemanding terrain in the Troodos mountains, breaking for lunch and conversation. 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Guided Conversation/ Response Workshop. This period is reserved for free and open discussion of the writing participants have done during the previous two days, guided by a set of topics to help the writers evaluate their own and others’ progress. Registration Information Rodon Hotel room charge: €42,00 per person (includes Sat night & breakfast) Conference Room/Facilities fee: €20,00 per person Coordinator fee: €30,00 per person Total: €92,00 All payments due upon arrival. To register by 3 April 2009 contact Dr. Spurgeon Thompson, 1 28th Oktovriou Street, 4680 Agros, Cyprus, or email: spurgeonthompson1@yahoo.co.uk, or phone +357, 99804970. Late registrations accepted, but will not guarantee accommodation at the Rodon Hotel due to high season.
Mixed Culture Feelings
The pale girl with the sharp eyes
was seen again at the bar last night.
She was looking for the young Latino
who’d danced her mad
in a pace she had never danced before,
through a passion of odourless sweat.
That same night,
elusive, the boy went
to another disco
for an African adventure.
...All nights are one memory,
only days allow time to proceed,
you all know what I mean
This black woman is here to stay,
she will not let him have a beg
with her Rasta hair curling
around his Paki shoulders and neck,
with her aged nails ready
to give a curry taste
to his flesh of hardened labour.
You all know this one is trapped
in a Europe bar,
an Asian suffering African love.
Powerful culture mixture, the friction is unique
it is my love cultura
and your passionate couture,
in a blend of colour, vodka and gins
cheers my love, salute!
The two girls found each other in a chat room
and mate as soon as they met
the oldest travelled with a train
from Andalusia all the way to the Northeast steppe
acute angles on her face,
pale and shy,
lowering glances on the Guernicean physique
will she ever get used to the taste of salt on the female skin...
The man from such a distant island beneath Turkey,
was too old for the Romanian teen,
but she gave in to peasant last,
she compromised with the need for care
the nights were long,
too long for the money,
to long for the money.
He died happy,
he died with satisfaction
aimed against his friends,
against all odds.
She never died.
Powerful culture mixture, the friction is unique
it is my love cultura and your passionate couture
in a blend of colour, vodka and gins
cheers my love, salute!
I travelled incognito
around the lakes and the rivers of this earth,
only the Nile swallowed me
and spat me out in an oasis afar
I was pierced by a pyramid
in the goddess’s hands,
and I confessed my love to the golden crocodile –
these mixed culture feelings
killed my own private local idea of love
and made me a chameleon of lust,
and gave me a box of crayons
for the Rio dancers,
and a peacock in love with a cock
and a horse sodomising a seahorse
and a bull seducing his own corpse.
was seen again at the bar last night.
She was looking for the young Latino
who’d danced her mad
in a pace she had never danced before,
through a passion of odourless sweat.
That same night,
elusive, the boy went
to another disco
for an African adventure.
...All nights are one memory,
only days allow time to proceed,
you all know what I mean
This black woman is here to stay,
she will not let him have a beg
with her Rasta hair curling
around his Paki shoulders and neck,
with her aged nails ready
to give a curry taste
to his flesh of hardened labour.
You all know this one is trapped
in a Europe bar,
an Asian suffering African love.
Powerful culture mixture, the friction is unique
it is my love cultura
and your passionate couture,
in a blend of colour, vodka and gins
cheers my love, salute!
The two girls found each other in a chat room
and mate as soon as they met
the oldest travelled with a train
from Andalusia all the way to the Northeast steppe
acute angles on her face,
pale and shy,
lowering glances on the Guernicean physique
will she ever get used to the taste of salt on the female skin...
The man from such a distant island beneath Turkey,
was too old for the Romanian teen,
but she gave in to peasant last,
she compromised with the need for care
the nights were long,
too long for the money,
to long for the money.
He died happy,
he died with satisfaction
aimed against his friends,
against all odds.
She never died.
Powerful culture mixture, the friction is unique
it is my love cultura and your passionate couture
in a blend of colour, vodka and gins
cheers my love, salute!
I travelled incognito
around the lakes and the rivers of this earth,
only the Nile swallowed me
and spat me out in an oasis afar
I was pierced by a pyramid
in the goddess’s hands,
and I confessed my love to the golden crocodile –
these mixed culture feelings
killed my own private local idea of love
and made me a chameleon of lust,
and gave me a box of crayons
for the Rio dancers,
and a peacock in love with a cock
and a horse sodomising a seahorse
and a bull seducing his own corpse.
Laughter in my Womb
As I touch my tummy so tenderly, I escape
He placed his hand on mine
Asked I blush as mummy,
so perfectly out I space
She placed her hand on his
And I hear laughter from inside my ears
And I sense these thrills right down my veins
And I feel my rains coming
I am the season of the mud
I am a new earth
And I hear laughter from inside my mind
And I sense this strength all over my muscles
And I feel my arteries working
I transform
I am the reason of the laughter
I am the hearth
I am the season of the fire
red soil and water
my womb is an oven
and it’s laughing
As I touch this belly in such a marvel, I break
He placed his finger on my tear
Collapsed I and numb, but sovereign, again I brick
She placed his salty finger on her lips
And I throw laughter from inside my guts
And I sense this mighty earthquake on my bones
And I feel my rains coming
I am the season of the mud
I am the last earth
And I hear laughter from inside my mind
And I sense this strength all over my muscles
And I feel my arteries working
I transcend
I am the reason of the laughter I am the hearth
I am the season of the fire
red soil and water
my womb is an oven
and its holy laughter is boiling to surface.
He placed his hand on mine
Asked I blush as mummy,
so perfectly out I space
She placed her hand on his
And I hear laughter from inside my ears
And I sense these thrills right down my veins
And I feel my rains coming
I am the season of the mud
I am a new earth
And I hear laughter from inside my mind
And I sense this strength all over my muscles
And I feel my arteries working
I transform
I am the reason of the laughter
I am the hearth
I am the season of the fire
red soil and water
my womb is an oven
and it’s laughing
As I touch this belly in such a marvel, I break
He placed his finger on my tear
Collapsed I and numb, but sovereign, again I brick
She placed his salty finger on her lips
And I throw laughter from inside my guts
And I sense this mighty earthquake on my bones
And I feel my rains coming
I am the season of the mud
I am the last earth
And I hear laughter from inside my mind
And I sense this strength all over my muscles
And I feel my arteries working
I transcend
I am the reason of the laughter I am the hearth
I am the season of the fire
red soil and water
my womb is an oven
and its holy laughter is boiling to surface.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΟ
THE MEDITERRANEAN WRITERS GROUP
WRITERS’ RETREAT, AGROS,CYPRUS, 2-3 MAY 2009
The Mediterranean Writers Group is hosting a writers’ retreat at the Rodon Hotel in Agros, Cyprus, situated in the isolated, mountainous region of Pitsilia, for the weekend of 2-3 May 2009 with the aim of allowing serious writers of fiction, poetry, and other forms of creative writing the opportunity to have the time and space to focus on their craft, share their work with other serious writers, and to soak up the natural environment of the region. The Med Writers Group has organized this 2-day mini-retreat combining creative writing workshops with readings, book swaps, and structured activities like nature walks and guided conversations related to their work. Of course, the retreat is also about having time away from the pressures of daily life to write in peace and solitude. The retreat is open to writers of all levels, and costs €92,00 total. The deadline to register is Friday, 3 April 2009.
Schedule of Activities
Saturday, 2 May 2009
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Creative Writing Workshop (short fiction). This workshop allows writers of short fiction to practice various forms of prose experimentation in an unhindered forum, guided by an experienced creative writing instructor.
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch at local taverna Pantheon Cafe
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Creative Writing Workshop (poetry). This workshop allows poets the opportunity to try out new ways of approaching their craft, including exercises in prose poetry, narrative, lyric, and longer forms of poetry.
5:30 p.m. Book Swap. Participants will exchange books with each other, free of charge, as a means to both expanding their libraries and sharing what they have learned. Poetry, fiction, literary biography, and critical books all welcome.
7 p.m. Poetry and Fiction Reading. Members of the Med Writing Group will present a sampling of their short fiction and poetry at the Rodon Hotel, some with musical accompaniment.
8 p.m. Writing Time. The evening is set aside for undisturbed quiet time writing, with only one rule: that no participant contact another during this period, and that mobile phones remain switched off.
Sunday, 3 May 2009
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Fiction and Poetry Response Workshop. This workshop allows participants the opportunity to share with the group and receive commentary on the writing they produced at the workshop the previous day and night.
12 p.m. Book Presentations. Each member will present a brief summary of a recent book they have read and liked, with quotations from the book where suitable, in the form of a mini-review and recommendation.
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Picnic Lunch on Nature Walk. Participants will take an hour-long trail hike on undemanding terrain in the Troodos mountains, breaking for lunch and conversation.
3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Guided Conversation/ Response Workshop. This period is reserved for free and open discussion of the writing participants have done during the previous two days, guided by a set of topics to help the writers evaluate their own and others’ progress.
Registration Information
Rodon Hotel room charge: €42,00 per person (includes Sat night & breakfast)
Conference Room/Facilities fee: €20,00 per person
Coordinator fee: €30,00 per person
Total: €92,00
All payments due upon arrival.
To register by 3 April 2009 contact Dr. Spurgeon Thompson, 1 28th Oktovriou Street, 4680 Agros, Cyprus, or email: spurgeonthompson1@yahoo.co.uk, or phone +357, 99804970. Late registrations accepted, but will not guarantee accommodation at the Rodon Hotel due to high season.
WRITERS’ RETREAT, AGROS,CYPRUS, 2-3 MAY 2009
The Mediterranean Writers Group is hosting a writers’ retreat at the Rodon Hotel in Agros, Cyprus, situated in the isolated, mountainous region of Pitsilia, for the weekend of 2-3 May 2009 with the aim of allowing serious writers of fiction, poetry, and other forms of creative writing the opportunity to have the time and space to focus on their craft, share their work with other serious writers, and to soak up the natural environment of the region. The Med Writers Group has organized this 2-day mini-retreat combining creative writing workshops with readings, book swaps, and structured activities like nature walks and guided conversations related to their work. Of course, the retreat is also about having time away from the pressures of daily life to write in peace and solitude. The retreat is open to writers of all levels, and costs €92,00 total. The deadline to register is Friday, 3 April 2009.
Schedule of Activities
Saturday, 2 May 2009
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Creative Writing Workshop (short fiction). This workshop allows writers of short fiction to practice various forms of prose experimentation in an unhindered forum, guided by an experienced creative writing instructor.
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch at local taverna Pantheon Cafe
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Creative Writing Workshop (poetry). This workshop allows poets the opportunity to try out new ways of approaching their craft, including exercises in prose poetry, narrative, lyric, and longer forms of poetry.
5:30 p.m. Book Swap. Participants will exchange books with each other, free of charge, as a means to both expanding their libraries and sharing what they have learned. Poetry, fiction, literary biography, and critical books all welcome.
7 p.m. Poetry and Fiction Reading. Members of the Med Writing Group will present a sampling of their short fiction and poetry at the Rodon Hotel, some with musical accompaniment.
8 p.m. Writing Time. The evening is set aside for undisturbed quiet time writing, with only one rule: that no participant contact another during this period, and that mobile phones remain switched off.
Sunday, 3 May 2009
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Fiction and Poetry Response Workshop. This workshop allows participants the opportunity to share with the group and receive commentary on the writing they produced at the workshop the previous day and night.
12 p.m. Book Presentations. Each member will present a brief summary of a recent book they have read and liked, with quotations from the book where suitable, in the form of a mini-review and recommendation.
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Picnic Lunch on Nature Walk. Participants will take an hour-long trail hike on undemanding terrain in the Troodos mountains, breaking for lunch and conversation.
3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Guided Conversation/ Response Workshop. This period is reserved for free and open discussion of the writing participants have done during the previous two days, guided by a set of topics to help the writers evaluate their own and others’ progress.
Registration Information
Rodon Hotel room charge: €42,00 per person (includes Sat night & breakfast)
Conference Room/Facilities fee: €20,00 per person
Coordinator fee: €30,00 per person
Total: €92,00
All payments due upon arrival.
To register by 3 April 2009 contact Dr. Spurgeon Thompson, 1 28th Oktovriou Street, 4680 Agros, Cyprus, or email: spurgeonthompson1@yahoo.co.uk, or phone +357, 99804970. Late registrations accepted, but will not guarantee accommodation at the Rodon Hotel due to high season.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)