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Location UK
Profile Views: 8322
Last Login: 12/17/2009
Member Since 2/5/2007
Website www.deanparkin.co.uk
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Dean Parkin is a poet and writer based in Suffolk. Since March 2007 has been poet-in-residence on the afternoon show on BBC Radio Norfolk, appearing once a month with the aim of helping to demystify poetry. Having won an Escalator Live Literature Award in 2009/10 he has been developing a one man show. An experienced performer, he is host of the Short Cuts Cabaret evening, one of many ongoing collaborations with pianist Maurice Horhut. He has had a poem, featuring pubic hair, nestling nicely between Ruth Padel and Tom Paulin in the Forward Anthology. His first pamphlet, 'Irresistible to Women' (2003) was followed by, 'Just Our Luck' (2008) - both published by The Garlic Press. He has given readings at festivals, colleges and pubs and has run workshops in prisons, schools and on a NATO base in Germany. In 2009/10 he has been working in collaboration with London Sinfonietta on the Surf N Turf Project in two schools in Suffolk, generating words and poems to be set to music. When he was a much younger man he entirely made-up a local legend which went on to appear in the Penguin Book of British Myth & Legend and is probably the first poet to appear on television reading a poem on the loo... He can also be quite friendly and is not at all scary like some poets he could mention. .. .. ....Get ..myspace layouts.... .. .. ............MySpace Layouts..............MySpace Layouts............MySpace Codes............MySpace Backgrounds.......... -
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.. Particularly balding men with glasses... Elvis Costello, Woody Allen, Roger McGough. And also those mostly with hair... Thomas Lux, Stephen Dobyns, Tom Waits, Michael Laskey, Christopher Reid, Christopher Logue, Adrian Mitchell, Graham Parker, Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, William Matthews, Philip Levine, Tony Hoagland, Mark Halliday, James Tate, CK Williams, Bernard Spencer, Van Morrison, John Hiatt, Warren Zevon, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Loose Fur, The Golden Smog), Krazy Kat & Ignatz, Calvin & Hobbes, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan, Alastair Reid, Dave Allen, Matt Harvey, Neil Innes, John Shuttleworth, Stanley Unwin, Ian Dury, Billy Bragg, Billy Connolly, Larry David, New York and John Lennon. -
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.. .. .. Irresistible to Women? You might have read the book. .. .. Here's a photo gallery I call 'The Irresistibles' - celebrating bald men (mostly) and their glasses... .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... .......... ....
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7 Songs | Sep 21, 2008
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Hello,how are you? - David Franks: Walkabout…1 year ago
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on MySpace...
Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
STATE TO STATE
(TUNE:
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
F G F C
F G F C
F G F C
C F F F)
From Sydney Town,
In uni. break,
I drove out west
To earnings make
Onion picking,
On the fields
Of Echuca,
That year’s yields.
After day’s work,
From Y.H.A.,
A group of us
Would not delay
To walk on down
To the dirt rim
Of the Murray,
For a cool swim.
On one such day,
I do declare,
Some three of us
Had a big dare
To swim across,
From state to state,
The wide Murray -
I took the bait.
Yes, foolishly,
I took the bait -
A choice that I
Would come to hate,
For I almost
Did drown that date,
Making the swim
From state to state.
(C) David Franks 2003 - David Franks: Walkabout…1 year ago
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on MySpace...
Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
STATE TO STATE
(TUNE:
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
F G F C
F G F C
F G F C
C F F F)
From Sydney Town,
In uni. break,
I drove out west
To earnings make
Onion picking,
On the fields
Of Echuca,
That year’s yields.
After day’s work,
From Y.H.A.,
A group of us
Would not delay
To walk on down
To the dirt rim
Of the Murray,
For a cool swim.
On one such day,
I do declare,
Some three of us
Had a big dare
To swim across,
From state to state,
The wide Murray -
I took the bait.
Yes, foolishly,
I took the bait -
A choice that I
Would come to hate,
For I almost
Did drown that date,
Making the swim
From state to state.
(C) David Franks 2003 - 1 year ago
