Prague ConVerses: Our Third Poetry Podcast

Wow. Despite the machinations of Newcastle Public Libraries, which currently include: the main Public Library being closed until 2009; printing facilities being out of order at the one place I was able to find a free computer; a public computer which logs you off indiscriminately every 15 minutes . . . so, despite this, oh, and a stolen bicycle, let’s just throw that l’il curveball in their - thanks Newcastle - despite, in spite, whatever RIGHT we decided to have no more . . . and have promptly somehow persuaded this damn terminal to let us upload our third poetry podcast: Prague ConVerses. Hurray! Something nice! Yay! The podcast includes music from the Nuclear Bunker session in Prague, featuring Mark (The Earl of Rank), Bubu, The Duchess, some Flamenco and a belly dancer, our attempts at tracking down invisible Czech poets, a Slovenian poet, and music from the Czech band Bran plus much more. So tune in now innit!

powered by PRAGUE POETRY or very slowly by Eric on crutches . . . take your pick

Prague ConVerses

And in the meantime, we get Back To Basics . . .

Where we sometimes are

Where we try to be a lot: BED

MILK

CUP

We are British after all

One new member for Newcastle bumps up our total. However, Newcastle, you are currently not allowed any more

A Librarian Hermit We Be

Our couchsurfing adventures continue, and we’ve since moved from London to York, and back again, and then mega-bused it up to Newcastle (anyone seen the outrageous UK train fares recently), where we are currently residing on two couches. Not at the same time we hasten to add. We’re not that huge for a start. It’s just that we had been been offered a flat oop north where we intend to hermit away and finish up our sound editing (and get some poems down dude!) and then since we arrived on Friday we happily met up with our very old friend Clare (old as in long time no see not old as in like OLD dude!) and ended up couchsurfing her co-op Georgian house in the centre of Newcastle. Nice. But after this debauched weekend of catching up, we fully intend to catch up with our sound and written word. So there. Our librarian has also been helpfully operating undercover as an audio engineer for artist Angie in Brixton though, where we recorded the sounds of Tooting Lido including the water fountain and sounds of the outdoor swimming pool, so we have been workingnotshirkin we hasten to add. In the meantime, here are some pictures from our travails, and a message about submissions for any Czech litbods out there. More from us soon! Over and out boys!

On the way from London to Newcastle, via the Megabus, our itinerant librarian found she couldn’t help herself when it came to more toilet door graffiti

The ancient walls of York

We left the kittens under our last couch in London. All together now . . . ahhhh!

The Angel of the North

PRAGUE TALES 2007
New Europe Writers Ink is now seeking submissions for their next print publication: Prague Tales 2007.
They are interested in short stories, poems, memoires of literary merit. They are not interested in journalism or sociological tracts. Each submission should reflect upon the writer’s experience of Prague or in the Czech Republic.
Send your submissions together with a short biography.
The deadline for submissions is February 10th 2007.