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Spacegirl’s Poetry Salon

About Me

Inspired from the salons of Bloomsbury held by Lady Ottoline Morell who opened her London home for salons and became great friends with such characters as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and Bertrand Russell. From its conception in 1998 Spacegirl’s Poetry Salon has appeared at loads of places. The Warp, Ravelation, Glastonbury, Healing Fields, Thurrock Music Festival, Earth Spirit, ID Spiral, Green Angels, Small World, 491 and various individuals homes throughout London. From 2004 to 2005 Spacegirl's Poetry Salon went LIVE on Sunday lunchtime through RAMPART RADIO. And anyone who took part in those sessions remembers how much fun we had live on air. Spacegirls' Poetry Salon's objectives are two-fold i.) to provide a forum for newcomers to poetry through workshops and smaller salons and ii.) provide a platform for cutting edge poets and spoken word artists. These two factors combine together to make Spacegirl’s Poetry Salon a centre of excellence.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/09/2007
Band Website: still under construction
Band Members: Spacegirl, Poet-Treeman and family (Tomos Charles ,Tyfi-Willow, Jack Leon and Baby Taliesin Eifion... Auntie Donna,Lexy, Leakey!!, Mindweed, Yap, Nev, Owl, Emma, Emily, Louise, Russell, Roger and Lynne, Niall, Dave, Kate and Finbar, Moksha, Johnny, Ash,the Tribal voices crew,and anyone and everyone who has ever helped to make a Salon happen, whether in a field, a house, a squat, a cafe, a warehouse,or a bandstand... You're all still in the family!
Influences: Taliesin,Shakespeare,Virginia Woolf, Rupert Brooke, George Orwell, Roger McGough, The Bronte's, W.H.Auden, Dylan Thomas, Hedd Wynn, Dannie Abse, Helen Barrett Browning, Richard Llewelyn ,Alexander Cordell, Hunter.S.Thompson, Anne Michaels, Lois de Bernieres ,Laurie Lee, Ben Okri, Umberto Eco, R.S.Thomas, William Blake, Daniel Defoe, J.R.R.Tolkien, Oscar Wilde... To namedrop a few of the classics....Beirdd y Byd Bach (The Bards of the Small World):Moksha(1st Bard )Gaea(2nd Bard) Dave Pepper(3rd Bard) Tony B. (4th Bard)John Crow, Kevan Manwaring, Inter-Ference, Niall McDevitt, Mae Mckenna, Seano, Mindweed, Cornelius, David Leakey, Jelly, Rob the Rub, Nev Hawkins, Yap, Paradox, Daniel, Carrie Tree, Captain Banana, .....and then in no particular order: Strangel, Ash, David J, Excentral Tempest, Lemn Sissay, Suzanne Andrade, Jamie Woon, Owl, Loud-Speka, Bomb-Bard, Nathan Penlington, Mr Gee, Daisy, Rainbow Becs, MojoPixy, Jasper, Sarah Bear, Josh, Matt Catt, Jo and Lee, Grassy Noel, Roddy McDevitt, Rachel Weston, Katie Maxx, Innua Phase Ellams, Salena Saliva Godden, Steve Ash, Emergency Pete, Paul Newman, Gil Scott Heron, Paul Simmonds (TMTCH) Michael Franti, Eminem, Buster Rhymes, Les Claypole, Sarah Jones, Bryan Adamson, Eminem (sometimes)... And loads more who we love just as equally but our eyes are tired from all this typing and our memory cells are hurting...
Sounds Like: A poetical conversation, with all your mates, in a massive comfy lounge where smoking and drinking are still permitted, where words shared can, and do change the world a bit at a time... and we let musicians have a go too while we have a fag break :O)
Record Label: SPS
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Our Credit-Crunch Wedding

After a few drinks on New Year's Day I decided to ask Poet-Treeman to make an honest woman  of me and marry me on my birthday (2/3 February). He has asked me six times before to get married, but bei...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:19:00 GMT

Natural Birth is for Wimps

Some nosey hippy person asked me recently if I would behaving a "natural" birth. I'm never sure what this means really. I confirmed that the baby would be exiting my body through the same entrance it ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:23:00 GMT

Moaning Hippies - oh dear

Not wanting to sound as though I'm having a go but we seem to be getting a lot of moaners on MySpace nowadays don't we? I mean not a day goes past that I don't get some bulletin or message saying chec...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:04:00 GMT

Downing Street beckons

Gosh it's all go, go go. A limo came to pick me up at 9:30 this morning to go and talk to the new Prime Minister. I have to say I wouldn't have gone if the limo did not have a telly in the back. I can...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:43:00 GMT

How Spacegirl Invented Poetry - AMEN

FACT: Spacegirl is the only person in the universe qualified to say who a poet is and what a poem is. FACT: Not even Shakespeare knew he was a bard until Spacegirl went back in her MAGIC Tricycle Time...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:08:00 GMT