CONTACT: isleyalynn@gmail.com
CURRENT PROJECT: www.templeofnothing.com
Influences
Rives Ani DiFranco Tchaikovski Sekou Sundiata David Mamet Gustav Klimt Sarah Kane Dimitri (a tortoise) Damascus (a snail) Ted Hughes DEF POETRY Bill Watterson The Marquis de Sade
Isley was less than one year old when she began talking, her first words being mama, cookie and dada (in that order). She has been collecting words and ways of fitting them together ever since. Now she reckons maybe other people want to hear them and share theirs with her. This may seem a beautifully giving act, but it's really entirely selfish - she just wants people to go "woah, that's a lot of words, way to go Isley". (If any of you are so inclined, a message to that effect would be greatly appreciated)
Anyway, so she spoke into a microphone a couple of times in her friends bedroom and put what came out up here, and will also, I suspect, add teeny tiny poems to view every month or so. If she can remember her password. And the poems.
"Her stuff is fantastic, never before have I encountered a creative force whose work I find moving, arousing, humorous, technically brilliant and achingly honest." - Andrew Bate, Rogue Theatre
"A brilliant performance." - Prof. Peter Thompson, Exeter University
"I particularly-especially love the girl [Isley Lynn] who does a hilarious, moving monologue in rhyming couplets, quoting Dante’s 7th circle, about Vaginismus" – Carla Lever
DOVE SONGS: An Anthology, Chronologically Available now! Click here to view the book - http://www.blurb.com/books/667655 Contact me for copies/pricing - isleyalynn@gmail.com
A new collection of Comic/Nonsense Verse, For Children, called, ‘Please Do Not Encourage This Nonsense by Purchasing this Book: Poems By Paul H. Tubb’, is available for purchasing.
23 Poems Not about Football, 11 that are about Football and 5 limericks. Paul H. Tubb has put these together, with some illustrations, into a handy book form so that they can be read at anyone’s leisure. Funny Rhyming poems that will delight Children of all ages. Poems about subjects such as Strange Christmas’s, Tone Deaf Dentists and the worlds worst stuntman among others. To learn more, please click on the link below.
Alas, Bobbeh only got top friend-dom in exchange for me being his - a mutual agreement. And recording was his birthday present - nobody got anything for xmas as I was teh brokexor :( All my musician friends are in the last line in no particular order, but i shall move you to the first space of that one if you like :) x
Hillsborough Avenue. Number 4. It's the road that goes off Pennsylvania Road opposite the co-op. Drop in literally any time, there's always people visiting, it's got a good vibe. Not claiming it's the Chateau Beard of the Pennsylvania District, but it's certainly up there. I think some drama people live at number two as well. x
OK then that's fair, it'll cost you one English pound. Deal! You can have tea any way you like, we have quite a range of teabags and even a choice of sugar. But when I say tea that doesn't mean you're restricted to tea, you can have anything that's in our kitchen. And our kitchen is an Aladdin's Cave of culinary delights!
I've got a busy week too, got to sort things for Open Mic, Xpression and Catfish, and should be playing a gig or two, but I'm sure I'll see you at some point. Love the new poems, especially the leaf one - every poet at some point has to write a nature poem, and this certainly does you proud :D x
Gee thanks! Always means a lot coming from fellow artistes :) If you don't mind waiting a few days you can have the EP when I get back to Exeter (Friday night woo!), as you won't have to pay the extra pound for postage. If you still insist on buying it, you can have it for free if you want! I think I have the old version of Byron's Last Stand, it has been through about ten drafts, if I can find it I'll put it on the CD for you. If I can't, I'm sorry! Come round for tea next week yes? I'm sure you know I now live with Patrick, Charlotte and Caroline, which is the best thing ever. x
Gee thanks! Always means a lot coming from fellow artistes :) If you don't mind waiting a few days you can have the EP when I get back to Exeter (Friday night woo!), as you won't have to pay the extra pound for postage. If you still insist on buying it, you can have it for free if you want! I think I have the old version of Byron's Last Stand, it has been through about ten drafts, if I can find it I'll put it on the CD for you. If I can't, I'm sorry! Come round for tea next week yes? I'm sure you know I now live with Patrick, Charlotte and Caroline, which is the best thing ever. x
Thanks for the comments, very much appreciated! Glad to see also that you've put your Xpression FM appearance up on your upcoming events - I'll ensure it gets adequate plugging so the whole of Exeter (and beyond) tunes in. Your words are, as ever, exquisite. x
