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  • Pam Thompson

  • 97 / Female
  • Leicester, Midlands, UK
  • Last Login: 11/17/2009

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Interests

  • General

    I am hugely indebted to all of the following, personally and/or poetically: Simon Armitage, Allan Baker, Mike Barlow,Roy Blackman,Carole Bromley, Michael Laskey,Sue Butler,Catherine Byron, Gillian Clarke, Alfred Corn,Kathy Daskiewicz, Carol Ann Duffy, Alison Dunne,Kevin Fegan,Kerry Featherstone,Vicki Feaver,Janet Fisher, Roy Fisher, Anne-Marie Fyfe,Mark Goodwin, Cathy Grindrod,Robert Hamberger, Jean Harrison, Helen Johnson, Chris Jones, Graham Joyce, Jackie Kay, Mike de Placido, Michael Longley, Mike McCarthy, David Morley, Frances Nagle, Sharon Olds, Steve Rooney, Jane Routh, Carol Rumens, Peter Rumney,Ann Sansom, Peter Sansom,Penelope Shuttle, Michael Tolkien,Lydia Towsey, Damien Walter,David Wheatley, River Wolton, Cliff Yates

  • Music

    Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Van Morrison, Gillian Welch, Chris Smither,PJ Harvey, The Pogues,Nick Cave, John Cale, Bruce Springsteen,The White Stripes,Mark Almond, The Fall(some),The Velvet Underground, The Cure,Talking Heads,Neil Young,

  • Movies

    City of God, Mulholland Drive, Kes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Naked, Secrets and Lies, Dirty Pretty Things, Milk, Revolutionary Road, Blue Velvet.

  • Television

    I'm not a TV fan but ... Shameless, This Life, Queer as Folk, The Royle Family,League of Gentlemen,

  • Books

    Where do I start? Thomas Hardy,Louis MacNeice, Philip Pullman,Daljit Nagra,Jane Hirschfield,Billy Collins, Mimi Khalvati,Frank O'Hara,Anne Sexton,Jane Draycott, Edwin Morgan,Michael Mackmin,Norman MacCaig,Wislawa Szymborska, Norman Nicholson,Benjamin Zephaniah,Anna Akhmatova,Helena Nelson. Paul Farley,Thomas Transtromer,Annie E. Proulx, Angela Carter,Margaret Atwood,Lorna Goodison, Naomi Shihab Nye,Coleridge, Jeanette Winterson, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Mary Leapor,Blake,Derek Mahon,John Ashbery,WS Graham,Gillian Allnutt,Ciaron Carson,Peter Redgrove,Dorothy Nimmo,Ruth Padel,Wilfred Owen,Kenneth Koch,Hilary Mantel,Lionel Shriver,Tim Winton,A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest,John Donne,Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop,Rita Dove,Barbara Guest,Helen Simpson, Kate Atkinson, Carol Shields,John Burnside, Sylvia Plath,Alice Oswald,Kathleen Jamie, Alice Munro, Pat Barker,Zadie Smith,Seamus Heaney,Ted Hughes,U.A. Fanthorpe,Caryl Churchill,Anne Stevenson,Brian Friel,R.S.Thomas,Gwynneth Lewis,Tennyson,Browning,Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens,Wilkie Collins,George Orwell,Sarah Waters,W.B. Yeats,Charles Wright,Edward Thomas,Eavan Boland,Siri Hustevedt, Anne Tyler,Les Murray,Adrienne Rich,Rebecca Elson,Tim Turnbull,Moniza Alvi,Sinead Morrissey,Mark Doty, August Kleinhaler,Don Paterson,John Clare,Gabriel Garcia Lorca,Denise Riley,Maggie O' Sullivan,Jorie Graham,Vona Groarke,Philip Levine,Louise Gluck, William Carlos Williams,Selima Hill,Robert Frost,Hans Magnus Enzenberger,Peter Finch, Geraldine Monk, Ruth Padel. All of A. L Kennedy.Hilary Mantel.

  • Heroes

    The Idealist

    You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world.
    Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships.
    It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close.
    But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop.

    In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards.
    You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings.

    At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values.
    You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

    How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual

    When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak ........

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Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Education: Post grad
  • Occupation: Poet (oh, ok, lecturer sometimes)

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About me:

I'm a poet based in Leicester. I perform, run workshops,write reviews. I'm up for most poetry things, in fact. If you want to employ me, get in touch. I run to keep on the saner side of sane. De-code the videos on here and you'll find out more. I like sparky, funny, creative, energetically-charged people.I hope some of that in them rubs off on me (Or vice-versa). I'm a very good friend but a scary enemy. I'm very loyal.But if people don't deserve it, I can kill. I'm silvery with a dark core. I have to mention Word!, Leicester's longest running spoken-word open-mic event. I help organise events and perform work there. You should come along if you're in Leicester-first Wednesday of every month, Bambu, Welford Road. I've performed with Inky Fish (www.inkyfishpoets.co.uk) We've made much mileage of the commen: 'erotic, funny and moving'. I have a new collection called 'The Japan Quiz' (Redbeck Press). You can buy copies from me-£7.95 plus p and p I have strong views on poetry. I read VERY widely! I like an argument. I'm very loving..very uncool! .. I'll settle for funny and erotic for myself! Poems and person, I like to think. Any comment, anyone? There are more poems here: http://www.writeoutloud.net/poets/pamthompson and on the blog here on my profile. My three pamphlets (or chapbooks) are: Spin (1999) Waldean Press; Parting the Ghosts of Salt(2000) Redbeck Press and Show Date and Time (2006)Smith-Doorstep. STOP PRESS: My new collection, 'The Japan Quiz' is out from Redbeck Press and a new pamphlet, 'Hologram', is out very soon from Sunk-Island Publishing. Keep checking my blog more more details.

Who I'd like to meet:

MySpace Tracker..
You Are a Rainbow
Breathtaking and rare
You are totally enchanting and intriguing
But you usually don't stick around long!

You are best known for: your beauty

Your dominant state: seducing

Comments

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  • Shoes With RocketsPaul Ewen

    Jun 22 2009 5:07 PM

    I raise a glass, pour it over my eyes, down my shirt...
  • Paul Louis Archer Photo…

    May 27 2009 7:11 PM

    Hi Pam

    Thank you for the photo compliments - much appreciated. Your poetry is great, too :)

    Cheers me dears!
    Paul
  • Paul Louis Archer Photo…

    May 27 2009 10:35 AM

    Hello Pam

    Thank you for the add. It makes a change to meet a poet. I'm quite partial to literature. Hey, I've meet Frances Nagle and Simon Armitage, both of which are on your fave listing :) I'll make sure to take a further ganders at your blog. Wishing you well.

    Kind regards
    Paul
  • Black Henbane

    May 18 2009 11:00 PM

    I put up a new song, "Slow Motion". Best listened to when relaxed or lazy.
    Enjoy! Any comment welcome!
  • FrankFrank Burton

    May 14 2009 1:47 PM

    Alright,

    Just wanted to let you know, my experimental crime novella, “About Someone” is available to read for free on my website.

    www.frankburton.co.uk

    Read it. It’s brilliant.

    Frank
  • Islington Crocodiles

    May 6 2009 4:09 PM

    Hi, thanks for adding me.

    The second edition of Islington Crocodiles is out now in limited numbers.

    If you are interested in ordering a copy you can do that here: http://host2.clickandbuild.com/cnb/shop/ttapress?productID=15&op=catalogue-product_info-null&prodCategoryID=4


    Thanks for your support
  • RodneyRodney Wood

    Apr 18 2009 2:24 PM

    breath a sigh of relief.A poet is normal like everyone else.
  • Allen JAllen J Davies

    Apr 12 2009 11:10 AM

    are you okay now?
  • Allen JAllen J Davies

    Mar 29 2009 11:35 PM

    graphiclaly fanatstic site Pam thanks for the add struggling poets have to stick together
  • Aine MacAodha Poet…Aine MacAodha

    Mar 8 2009 6:56 PM

    Thanks from the heart :) <br />Slainte <br />Aine x
  • Christian

    Mar 7 2009 2:30 PM

    Thanks for the add, Pam<br /><br />Nice to meet you,<br /><br />chris
  • CHAPMAN

    Mar 4 2009 10:13 PM

    Hi,
    After nearly 3 years, my new album is released on 30th March 2009. There are 4 tracks now up for you to listen on myspace and I've also added them toilike", I'd really like a comment on what you think, if you can take the time to give them a listen

    My new website mrballad.com will be up in a matter of days. I'm also starting a mailing list with exclusives and free stuff for subscribers, which you can join using this link Chapman Mailing List or the form on my page.
    I'm really looking forward to hearing what you think.
    Speak soon
    CHAPMAN
  • Poetess MariaMaria Gornell

    Feb 18 2009 2:13 PM

    Hi Pam,
    Thank you for the invitation here. Nice to meet you and I look forward to reading you.

    Maria x
  • Yessa Déouvé

    Feb 15 2009 7:38 PM

    Hi Pam,
    Thank you for the request,
    I hope you liked my music, let me know
    Best of luck,
    Yessa Deouve
  • Patricia Foster

    Jan 14 2009 2:30 PM

    Hello Pam,

    Thank you for your friend request.

    Glad you liked what was written about Thea-poets.

    All the best with your poetry endeavours,

    Patricia
  • Aine MacAodha Poet…Aine MacAodha

    Dec 25 2008 12:46 AM

    Best wishes for the holiday season Pam, take care,
    Aine
  • The Black Report

    Dec 3 2008 4:30 PM

    Hey Hows it goin?
    hope you can make it down tonight!


    Happy Days,
    The Black Report
  • Matt Marr

    Nov 18 2008 7:57 PM

    Hello,

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    Hope you can check it out
    Just click banner on my page
  • Redroom

    Oct 26 2008 11:15 PM

    Hey thanks for accepting. Hopefully catch one of your nights soon? CJ x
  • Black Henbane

    Oct 26 2008 4:28 PM

    Hi friend,

    I put a new song up. It's calles "Another Disaster Waltz".

    Actually it's not really new. I posted a lousy demo of it already last year. This is the final version you'll find on my first CD to be released shortly.

    Maybe it's quite a good soundtrack for the current crisis.
    ;)

    Enjoy! Any comment welcome.
  • Jen(at Salt)Jen Hamilton-Emery

    Oct 26 2008 2:39 PM

    Pam -- it's that time of year. The clocks have gone back, the days are shorter, colder, darker and we're all too broke to put the heating on. You are allowed to have one of those days -- wallow in it, I say, and you'll feel all the better tomorrow.
  • TonyTony .

    Oct 8 2008 7:13 AM

    It's easy to play. Just like snap.
  • RodneyRodney Wood

    Aug 29 2008 4:40 PM

    The poetry world is very small and full of greeneyed snapping fish.
    Andrew Motion
  • Ash Dickinson

    Aug 20 2008 9:24 PM

    That's very sweet, Pam, many thanks. Think I only coincide with 723 shows so attracting a crowd shouldn't be too difficult! Hope you're well.
  • bluemonsoon

    Jun 22 2008 10:49 AM

    BASS SLAM win £500, Fri 27 Jun, Peepul Centre - Leicester

    Introducing the spoken word slam - expect an evening of explosive verbal impact as artists compete to become the Bass Festival's first slam champion and win a £500 artist development bursary.

    Judges include Stephanie Hernandez - Apples & Snakes, Dave 'Stickman' Higgins - Blackdrop Spoken Word, Lydia Towsey - Chair of Word, Compered by Carol Leeming (The Mainstream Partnership)

    To enter the slam please arrive at the venue's registration desk at 7pm on the night.

    Entry £6