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Forthcoming events: (see our events page also please see new Paula Brown Publishing site for listings.)

Saturday 9th December 2006 - Hi everyone, I'm just completing the combined anthology 4/5 today. It has taken a long time to ensure all of the poems are in the book as I have had no typesetting help this year but I am hoping that by the end of the weekend I will have a full and checked index list to upload to the website. Here is the complete panel list with notes as to whose bios and personal poem that I have in place already. Because I lost all the data on my old computer before I could get the information off safely, I have lost all of the emails I was working on and had queued to work on at that time. This might mean that if you sent me your bio and I had not yet included it in the book at the time, I don't have it any more. This is the list that I do have - would you mind sending me your bio and poem that you would like to have included of your own if you are listed as not having a bio in place? If you could please do this as soon as possible, I will be able to complete the book and send it off to print. Again, you may have already sent me the missing information but I have been unable to locate it after extensive searching of cdrs and my new computer. A brief bio and one of your own poems that you would like to have showcased beneath it will be fine, thank you.

Other news - the website is a bit behind as I have been working hard to complete some funding work for Glimpses of Notes, promotional work for the recent releases and the proofs for the Christmas collection, The Other Voices International Project. The Other Voices collection is with the printer now.

Anthology 4/5 now has top priority until it has been printed and distributed but while I hit halts in the process such as waiting for these final bios and poems and while waiting for proofs, I will work on the website.

We have some exciting collections lined up for 2007, such as Andrew Taylor's next title "In Search of a Symphony" and Carol Thistlethwaite's intriguingly titled book "The Jizz"

Many thanks and love to everyone :-)

Paula x

Susan Whitmarsh - bio and personal poem in place
Paula Brown - bio and personal poem in place
Stephen Laskey - bio and personal poem in place
Carol Thistlethwaite - bio and personal poem in place.
Andrew Taylor - bio and personal poem in place.
Mike Gibson - bio and personal poem in place
Andy Jagger - bio and personal poem in place
infannity - no bio - no personal poem
Paul Bluer - no bio - no personal poem
Karen Harvey - no bio - no personal poem
Celia Naylor - no bio - no personal poem
Andrew Hider - no bio - no personal poem
Andrew Shiston - no bio - no personal poem

Tuesday 14th November 2006 - I've spent the day packing up more review copies and many more hours on checking through Anth 4/5, pasting in missing poems and checking through the index. The mammoth task is almost finished now! if you liked the members' books recently, please let me know as the authors love to know what you all thought of their books. I've had the print price through for the Other Voices International Project, quite high, I'm afriad but of course I can sell it online cheaper than retail shops can because of their discounts. The online price for the Other Voices Global Anthology collection will be £8 plus postage. Why not subscribe? You will receive a copy anyway as soon as it is released, plus more brand new poetry collections throughout the year. It's only £25 for a UK subscription and it would make a great present for a poetry fan. Download a subscription form here

Monday 13th November 2006 - The Other Voices International Project is with the printer for proofing now, along with the corrected bio page. We should get some quotes back later this week and the print proof of the text file. Exciting times! I have sent off several review copies of A Real Man, 4 Liners 4 London and The Mansion Gardens today and I am working wih the authors on their marketing. I'm organising some titles to be entered for some literary competitions at the moment as well. I have done some work today on the Survivors Poetry Mentoring Scheme collection.

Sunday 12th November 2006 - All members' copies of our Autumn Collection A Real Man by David Savoury should be with you now. Please email me if you are a member and have not yet received your copy. A list of current members and points is in the members' area now to download. Please email me if you have forgotten the members' area url. I have been sending out review copies of A Real Man, 4 Liners 4 London and The Mansion Gardens today and working on marketing plans for books. If anyone works for a magazine and would like a book to review, please email me. I have ordered more copies of A Real Man, still have a few in the office but there won't be more than a couple of days delay in delivery if I do run out of them. Still working on checking and correcting Anthology 4/5. Proof file should go off to the printer this coming week. I've had the print quotes through for Glimpses of Notes but I have had to ask for more quotes to fit with the budget for the project, so there should be more news next week. We are also applying for funding for that project so the price can be brought down significantly for people to be able to afford. Being a colour text project, it has given us all kinds of interesting situations to deal with but it will be well worth it, it's a legend of a book! Work has begun on Andrew Taylor's new collection "In Search of a Symphony" and Carol Thistlethwaite's collection "The Jizz" (which is an ornothological term!). The Other Voices International Project collection in print will go off for a print proof on Monday, for our Christmas collection. It's an incredible collection of poetry from all over the world with some gorgeous translations, pictoral poetry and some images to surprise along the way. PLEASE, please read the bios in this collection when you receive it- they are incredible stories in themselves and very worth the time to read them. A site update will follow this week once all the text proof files are off to the printer and we are up to date with the print projects in time for the Christmas rush. Work continues for the SOUND festival, we are auditioning young musicians from all over Dorset and the surrounding areas for a festival on 21st July 2007 at Kingston Lacy House, which we have taken over this year. Dave is on a management course at university to learn to deal with all the new demands on his talents and I'm half way through a degree relating to the social enterprise projects that I undertake. The Paula Brown Publishing site has had some updates recently. We are running a Youth (14-18) Battle of the Bands in Dorset in February 07 and applicatons via demo cd are welcomed now. Original material only please, most of the band to be between 14 and 18 and most of the band to be from Dorset, please! email Dave at accesstomusic@btinternet.com . Monday 20th November at Mr Kyp's, Poole, Dorset at 8pm, we have the winner's gig from our adults battle of the bands from October this year. Playing for your delight and entertainment will be the "lady-slaying party punk" crowd-rocking CLUB LE SHARK, followed by sparkly, happy, shiny popsters NUMIDIAN WISH and the evening will be rounded off by the polished and gleaming performance of electronica-pop-rockstars THE LONGEST DAY. If you are in Dorset, don't miss it!

Sunday 5th November 2006 - The site has been updated today. Polls have been administrated behind the scenes and the excel file current index is uploaded. Click here to download. Poll results are listed below and the new polls are up today on poll page 1 and poll page 2. All of the poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 and new poetry have been updated today, as has the new poetry page in the members' area. The members' area has the latest book project uploaded and linked to the member downloads page.

Saturday 4th November 2006 - Press Release for The Manson Gardens is now linked to the book sales page on the Paula Brown Publishing website. Both of the images of A Real Man and The Mansion Gardens display properly now on there too. Events page and Events Archive page have both been updated. Members' copies of A Real Man by David Savoury were posted out today. The Glimpses of Notes text has been completed and proofed and approved! Now we are waiting for a print quote so that we can apply for some funds to produce this innovative book. The cover file was complete but we are going to add some reviews to it, so that should be complete next week. The Other Voices International Project is complete to first draft, for our Christmas collection. The cover is almost complete as well. This wonderful collection is well worth the membership fee alone this year - poets from all over the world including many of our friends from the site have been included in this project, endorsed by Unesco. A Real Man press release is now linked to the Paula Brown Publishing site Book Sales page.

Friday 3rd November 2006 - A crazy rush to finish books and get them all ordered for the launch yesterday, together with the planning of the launch has caused a few web-update delays so please bear with me! I have updated the Paula Brown Publishing site now with our latest books A Real Man by David Savoury, The Mansion Gardens by Alan Morrison and 4 Liners 4 London by Martin Brett (press release). I have uploaded a new membership subscription form and in the members' area, the members' list and points has been updated on the excel file there, so you can all see if your latest book has been posted to you. A Real Man by David Savoury goes out to members tomorrow. A Real Man, 4 Liners 4 London and The Mansion Gardens were launched at Battersea Arts Centre last night, with (un)healthy doses of wine thanks to the lovely Michele, cheese, grapes, bread and crackers and some sparkling and still water and barmaid services from myself. All three authors read from their collections and there was a little last-minute drama when David Savoury's book was almost late because of problems with the cover BUT at the last minute, the extremely wonderful Basingstoke Press pulled out all the stops and helped us make the deadline for the launch. There was an even more dramatic last-minute worry when our car broke down but the fantastically wonderful Marcus Smykowski (of Poems & Profanities fame) drove us and a gazillion boxes of books and wine in his little Saxo with creaking suspension all the way to Battersea and THEN proceeded to be the best barman on the planet for the evening! Thanks Marcus :-) I just have a couple of press releases to complete and I will upload them tomorrow. The evening was made even more wonderful for me by the surprise appearances of David Kessel (O The Windows of the Bookshop Must be Broken) and Survivors Poetry Director Dr. Simon Jenner!

Saturday 30th September 2006 - Events page and Events Archive page have both been updated.

Wednesday 27th September 2006 - Apologies for the delay in updates but my computer was hacked and all my passwords changed...people who know me personally will understand, seeing as I can't even turn on my own TV without asking for help...why it took me so long to resolve the problems! I have finally managed to resolve the issues with my ftp programme today and am once again able to update the website. I have updated the site behind the scenes and will gradually complete the online updating throughout the course of today. The Mansion Gardens arrived today and I have been packing up members' copies and legal deposit copies, also the set for the author, Alan Morrison. David Savoury's collection "A Real Man" is being launched in London along with The Mansion Gardens and if you are really lucky...you may also be treated to some readings from Martin Brett and his 4 Liners 4 London collection. The plan is to formally launch Paula Brown Publishing at Battersea Arts Centre Mezzanine Room on 2nd November at 8pm. Please get in touch if you wish to come along as places are very limited. There is no charge. If you are in London and particularly enjoy these writers, then please feel free to get in touch. Members will recieve The Mansion Gardens early next week and A Real Man by David Savoury, our Autumn collection, will be out by the end of October. Our Christmas edition this year is from the Other Voices international online anthology and should be with you before Christmas. There is a new members list online for anyone wanting to check their points or membership status - access that from the members' area - also a new titles index spreadsheet. I will be clearing up the anth 4/5 files this week and assembling the complete book, while accepting submissions for anth 6, which has the slightly amended rules of having an editing process from the panel after provisional acceptance. there will be a new signature for those acceptances, so everyone understands. The submit page has been updated with the new information about editing. The About Page has been updated. Terms & Conditions page has been updated. Poetry Polls 1 and 2 have been updated, as have poetry pages 1 2 3 and 4.

Monday 14th August 2006 - Alan Morrison has now approved the amended Mansion Gardens text and so that has been ordered - or approved for order, anyway - it was ordered before but there were tweaks to be made - and I have completed the first round of corrections on our autumn collection - David Savoury's A Real Man. Multicoloured Green's Cavern Club gig is confirmed as 5th January 2007.

Friday 11th August 2006 - 4 Liners 4 London has been posted out to everyone today. I have received the final proofs for The Mansion Gardens and sent them on to Alan Morrison for appproval - then we can finally appprove the order for the Summer collection print. received the AMPfest photos today on CD. Still working on the text for Glimpses of Notes with Alan as the printer had some trouble with the colour tones and we are changing the format of the colour files for them. I think I have resoled the website problems today so I can start uploading the new udated pages again. Fingers crossed!

Thursday 10 August 2006 - AMP has won the contract for SOUND Music Festival in Dorset for 2007. Also Amy & Sam from Multicoloured Green have been offered a gig at The world famous Cavern Club in January - on the 5th January 2007.

Monday 7th August 2006 - 4 Liners 4 London arrived today and I have packed them all up for delivery to the members - I am (since the demise of my old computer) missing the delivery address for the members Patricia Creamer, Adele Baker, Tracey Martin, Matthew Janowski, Patricia Reynolds, Michael Treacy and Colin Harris. I am also missing most of their email addresses, so if you know anyone from this list, please email them and ask them to email me with their details so that I can post their books. I have also included some of the Survivors Poetry Postcards/fridge magnets/business cards that we created recently. It's just pot luck as to what was sent to you. I am out of stock now but I am making another order if any of you want more of them. More work was done to complete the final proof for The Mansion Gardens - we have settled on a gorgeous cream paper for the text and we have printed the covers in bulk to save on future production costs. Enough copies for the members have been ordered and if you are a member and wondering, once the cover is done, it will only be a few days before you receive your copy - estimated delivery date before the end of August 06. Tweaking is still being done on the text for Glimpses of Notes at the press. Apparently, trying to set a 4-colour process on to a single coloured letter on a page is a little like trying to hit a bullseye on an ant's dartboard with a human-sized dart but the printers are rising to the challenge admirably.

Saturday 5th August 2006 - AMPfest was a fantastic success - we broke even and managed to raise around £80 towards the portable recording equipment we desperately need for the AMP group. It will also come in handy for recording spoken word poetry for cds. The event was fantastic - I will post photographs when we have them.

Tuesday 1st August 2006 - I administrated polls 13 and 14 and those results are now at the bottom of this page. Because of some site problems, the updated pages will not be uploaded until the weekend or perhaps next week. Apologies - I have to pay for the site upgrade again. I have listed on a new titles index index file all of the poems that the panel have and I am now going back through it to note all the works that they selected. This updated file will be complete today but for the reasons just stated, will probably not be available online to view until next week. Once this process is complete, the remaining poems for this season can be added online.

Monday 31st July 2006 - I made the programme for Saturday's AMPfest today.

Sunday 30th July 2006 - All submissions from this season are now with the panel, which took me all day! Some have made choices already and I will be administrating them on Tuesday. I also sent out promotional material for AMPfest, a couple of chapbooks to people who have just given me their addresses and the Survivors' Poetry Postcards to promote the groups in Poole and Portsmouth.

Saturday 29th July 2006 - I received 5 initial copies of Glimpses of Notes and The Mansion Gardens today, so that I could send them off for submission to the TS Eliot Prize, which I promptly did. The spare copies went to the authors. Both books will be officially out in November but members will recieve a copy of The Mansion Gardens along with 4 Liners 4 London in August as their Spring and Summer collections. Glimpses of Notes will be available to members as a pdf file on a cd or as a spoken word cd as the book is so very expensive to print in full colour and the membership fee does not cover the cost of that printed edition. Glimpses of Notes will be launched with an art exhibition taken from the text in November. The Mansion Gardens needed a couple of corrections but those have now been sent to the printer.

Monday 24th July 2006 - Finally! (drum roll please.....) Alan and I have finished the text and cover of Glimpses of Notes and have sent it to the printer. There is just the inner cover text to be completed. The text is in the members' area for any member who is interested in a sneak preview. The Sound Youth Music Festival in Verwood, Dorset on 22nd July was great fun! Capdown had the crowd whipped up into a moshing frenzy (safely, of course!), Multicoloured Green performed Little Secret for the first time and Alf and Gina made their debut as Secret Ingredient in the acoustic tent. Claire Tomey headlined the acoustic tent (where most people hid out for some of the day at least, because of the monsoon-style rains and thunderstorms!) and a good time was had by all. This festival will go ahead again next year but it will be on a new site. Many thanks to the entire staff and volunteer team, you are fantastic and kept the faith when it was very hard to believe it would all turn out okay, especially when the main stage was closed for hours...it was down to your hard work and the agreeable-ness of the bands that everyone managed to play. The Christmas collection is shaping up now, the editing process has begun! I have the Autumn collection in hand and in order now, too. The Spring collection, 4 Liners 4 London is complete and I have made an order for the members. Alan Morrison's The Mansion Gardens is also complete and I have made an order for the members today for that Summer collection as well. This should all be arriving in around two weeks. I will spend some time on the Autumn collection to start it off, and complete my input for the Christmas Collection and then I will turn all attention to the site and Anthology 4/5 to complete them both.

Tuesday 11th July 2006 - Take a look at the browser bar - I have uploaded a TPP "favicon" which appears in front of the url to give us a stronger identity. Hope you like it! It's my birthday too :-) I am working on Glimpses of Notes today - great reviews are coming in, to the delight of Alan! (and me, naturally!)

Monday 10th July 2006 - Survivors Poetry session in Poole - delayed from 1st Thurs in the month because we were waiting for the postcards to arrive. They look great and we will be making another order soon. We started thinking about the Six-Second-Survivors mobile film project. Alan Morrison's text for The Mansion Gardens went off for print proofing. The cover has already been approved. This is our Summer collection, out in August as preview copies for the members and in November for release. The final corrections to the text of 4 Liners 4 London went off for a final print proof. Martin Brett is really pleased with the design of the book and I think you will all be pleased with it too. I did some more group editing work with the team for the Christmas Collection for members.

Saturday 8th July 2006 - The mock-up of thew binding design of 4 Liners 4 London arrived today and I posted it to Martin Brett. It looks fantastic but I need to tidy up a couple of text pages so we need another text print proof before making the order. This is our delayed Spring collection, which will be out in August.

Sunday 2nd July 2006 - Second set of corrections on Alan Morrison's collection now complete. Tried to upload this updated web news page but the server was down. Hopefully I will be able to do it later. I am working on email newsletters which will go out over the summer. One or more of our publications this year will be going forward fro the T.S. Eliot Prize and other competitions. Wish the authors luck and stay friends with them - they could be your friends in high places before long! :-)

Saturday 1st July 2006 - Second set of corrections on Alan Corkish's Glimpses of Notes. More to come but we are almost there now. I have done some more work on the Christmas collection. I received the text for the Autumn collection today as well. Submissions are now closed for Antholgy 4/5. Submissions for Anth 6 will be welcome from 1st September 2006. Over the Summer break, I will continue to pass previous submissions around the panel and add polls to the site so that we can select the final poems to complete Anth 4/5 and prepare it for the November 2006 print.

Friday 30th June 2006 - Started work on the Christmas Special collection. I think you will find it very exciting! We collected the flyers for 55561 Poole's Battle of the Bans for adult bands and will start distributing those shortly.

Thursday 29th June 2006 -First corrections from Alan Corkish's Glimpses of Notes completed and emailed back to Alan. Alan is going through the text at the moment. Kaz's community print project that we host on this site has a brochure and cover letter uploaded, so that she can start to promote her project as she continues to build her web area. See Artstart. Press Release for Sound Music Festival from yesterday amended/corrected, apologised for and remade (!!) A new press release made for promoting the Dorset Bands.

Wednesday 28th June 2006 -First corrections from Alan Morrison's text The Mansion Gardens completed and Alan has emailed me back his second set of corrections. Press release made for SOUND Music Festival to promote the acoustic stage. Still waiting for the cover and text proofs of 4 Liners 4 London and the cover proof of The Mansion Gardens. Survivors' Poetry Postcard Project ordered - will be delivered around 10th July. Planning a recording session for MCG at Bath College.

Tuesday 27th June 2006 - Promoting 55561 Battle of the Bands Showcase 13th July click here for a flyer and AMPfest 5th August click here for a flyer and the SOUND Youth Music Festival on 22nd July http://www.musicfestverwood.org.uk I have added a contents page to Alan's Glimpses of Notes and tidied up a few things in the document, almost ready to correct it ready for a print proof now. I'm working on Alan Morrison's The Mansion Gardens today, tidying it ready for a second check-over by Alan before it goes to first print proof. Events Page updated and an events archive created. The REGISTER Page has been updated and the email list has been recreated. Please go and sign up for the free email newsletter, as the old account is no longer in operation and you may miss all the news! Archived email newsletters continue to be added to the register is the email I use for that account.page. Please ensure that the registered email is added to your email address book or you won't receive the emails, they will be caught by spam filters if my email address is not saved. tppsubmissions@btinternet.com is the email address I use for that account. I have managed to sort out the problem with the site polls. Polls 13 and 14 are now (or will shortly be) on the respective pages.

Monday 26th June 2006 - I had a big breakthrough with Glimpses of Notes today and Alan Corkish now has the first document to proof before we go to print proofing. It's taken a long time to get to this stage but I think you will agree when you see it, that it has been worth the wait! I also went through the panel's notes about the last set of poems to go to them and I have selected the poems they chose for Anth 4/5.

Saturday/Sunday 24th/25th June 2006 - Hayfever stopped work this weekend - I couldn't see the screen properly...

Friday 23rd June 2006 - We found a small typo/spelling error in 4 Liners, so this was corrected and sent back to the printer for a final text print proof.

Wednesday 14th June 2006 - The members (that I have email addresses for since my computer crash) have had an email newsletter update. For those that did not receive it, please go to the members' area and have a look at the downloads page. The Summer Newsletter (word and flash) is also there now. If you (member or non-member alike) haven't emailed me recently, it would be a good idea to do so now and add your postal address, to be sure that I have the most recent contact information for you if you would like to be kept informed of all the latest developments. This week, we have sent the 4 Liners 4 London cover for print proofing (the text is already complete and proofed). We have also been working on completing The Mansion Gardens and this will go to print proof next week for both the cover and the text. Members with a current membership for Summer 06 will be sent a free gift publication to thank them for their patience during the spring issue delay. The members' area has had some updates today. I have resolved the immediate poll problem today (temporarily) by using the members' forum feature. Please see red news above and the poll pages.

Tuesday 13 th June 2006 - I met with Alan Morrison about his The Mansion Gardens collection and we looked over the text proofing. John O'Donoghue was there too and we discussed some future projects for Survivors' Poetry local groups. We met with the Arts Council in Brighton about how best to present future funding applications.

Wednesday 7th June 2006 - AMP sessions in Poole.

Tuesday 6th June 2006 - I had the first cover digital proof of 4 Liners 4 London from the designer today. It's looking promising but it needs a little tidying before the print proof of the cover. The text is ready for this project. I'm starting to invite podcast - type MP3 programmes to be produced for the AMP Radio website trial, starting shortly. There will be plenty of programmes about the arts and about poetry collaborations. If you have any ideas for programmes involving poetry with music, please let me know. Please note, though - this internet radio station is only for new, unpublished poetry and music - partly because we can't pay PRS but mostly because we want to give new work the opportunity of a wider audience. Work forges ahead with SOUND, the Youth Music Festival in Verwood.

Monday 5th June 2006 - The panel have made some more selections, I have been working on Geekfest. If anyone would like to send me in an image BY FRIDAY 9th June either on email or by MMS message on the mobile (07796530826) with a caption, on the theme of "GEEK" (what does that word mean to you? Make it funny, bizzare, quirky, original, unexpected and I will broadcast it on Saturday via a bluetooth broadcast at the Geekfest exhibition in Poole. Please feel free to come along! Still struggling with the polls online here. TPP Anthology 4 page has been updated.

Friday 2nd June 2006 - I have updated our accomplishments to date document - I have probably forgotten a few things but it's updated. The annual anthology 4 has changed this year to become a merged publication along with anthology 5 for practical and financial reasons. This way of producing the book has simply not worked and loses funds each year. We are going to trial a new way of producing the book from September's submissions - we are going to accept the poems provisionally instead of fully and then ask the panel to edit the collection down into a publication of around 100 pages to make it tighter, more saleable, and much more cost effective to produce. If anybody wuld like to be on the panel from September and you have been around the site for a while, please contact me.

Thursday 1st June 2006 - I have sent many more poems around the panel and retrieved some email addresses from the depths of my recovered files from the old computer. Submissions were also recovered. Amy and Sam had a photo shoot today as part of their prize for winning Battle of the Bands in Bournemouth.

Wednesday 31st May - Many thanks to everyone who has sent me their email and address - please do so if you haven't already - I have lost all contact details since the computer disaster! Today, I finished the new Paula Brown Publishing site as best I could without having everything to hand. The final pages will be built as I scour my files to find the information I need over the next few weeks. I have replaced some of the missing pages from this site and updated them - the home page has a better menu, I have updated and replaced the Introduction page, the About page, Contact page, Human Rights page, Publishing links page, Poetic Forms page, Events page. The projects page will be uploaded shortly. I am having trouble with the polls - I simply can not get them to display, so I will have to take some advice on that before we are fully back in action. I have managed to scour my retrieved files for the email addresses of the current panel, so I will be able to send submissions round to them later this week - once I have found the submissions among my transferred files, that is! AMP is on in Poole this evening everyone is working towards AMPfest and the Sound festival..

Tuesday 30th May - Many thanks for your patience while the site has been static. Family situations have ground the project to a halt for a couple of months but after several changes, which will be listed below, we are back!

The first and most significant change is that we have moved. The new address is 26 Uplands Road, Drayton, Portsmouth, Hampshire. All mail is now redirected but if you have written to me recently and I have not responded, please feel free to email me to check that it arrived safely.

The second change is that I have a new computer on a new system. My old computer finally expired, taking with it all of my archived emails. I have all of my files safely but I may need to ask about project details and schedules and I definitely need to replenish my address book and contact details. Please feel free to email me so that I can update my address and contacts files. Please email me if you are a member - I need to prepare my lists for sending out the summer and delayed spring collections. Learning new software has held things up a little more as well.

We have a new summer catalogue - please feel free to download it. It details much of the latest news and print schedules.

I have had to take the difficult decision to merge Anthologies 4 and 5 in order to remain on track with the budget for all the print projects and aditionally because of all of the circumstances with relocating and the loss of the old computer system. This will be out in November 2006.

Site updates will now be at least weekly. Please keep an eye on this page for news of updates and pelase send any submissions to tppsubmissions@btinternet.com

Polls 11 and 12 have been administrated - results below. Polls 13 and 14 will be up later today.

This weblog was cleared of older news and the weblog archive has been updated.

Thursday 30th March - Work continues on Jazzmouth UK Festival in Portsmouth - although funding from Arts Council was not granted. Links page has been updated.

Monday 20th March - New Current Index file uploaded. Polls adminned and site update is under way. Poll 9 and 10 results below further down the page.

Saturday 18th March - 9 bands played live to Poole Town Centre shoppers, MC'd by Dave as part of AMP and organised by Poole Music Centre.

Weds 15th March until Monday 20th March - Paula unwell and not working.

Thursday 9th March until Weds 15th March - Dave and Paula back in Spain on family business.

Wednesday 8th March - Battle of the Bands final at Mr Kyp's in Poole - played to a capacity crowd. The winning band Skyline are recording shortly and the winner's gig is at Mr Kyp's on 24th April - doors open 7.30pm.

2nd to 5th March - Karin SkÖ ld came over and worked on the Love Yourself poetry and arts project around various community groups in Portsmouth. Karin is now back in Stockholm and working on the drawings to complete the project.

Friday 24th February - Worked on Love Yourself community arts project for March. Sent the 4 Liners 4 London cover to Yann for setting. Adminned several panel acceptances for Anth 5. Updated current index file. I found out that the site is down and I resolved it with site admin. They are working on fixing it. It was because I upgraded three times in January in my anxiety to get the site back. This, apparently, breaks the system! It should be back shortly.

Thursday 23rd February - AMP website updated with details and images of heat 3 from last night's battle of the bands. Anthology 4 has been corrected from the digital proof and sent back for a final digital proof. Work is now commencing on the index section and we should be ready for a print proof in March.

Wednesday 22nd February - More work on Jazzmouth UK festival for April. More work on the next community poetry and art project with Karin Skold for March. Battle of the Bands heat 3 tonight. More postcards ordered to promote membership. Karin's flights booked.

Monday 20th February - Paula's internet radio interview on poetry as therapy is now online at BIRST and that works best on windows computers. If you can't launch that, I have it uploaded to this site as an MP3. Click here. New excel file for current index. Site update complete - new polls 1 and 2 and updated poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 and New. New members' points list file uploaded. Book of Dads page updated. Updated Purchase Order Form plus UK Subscription form and Overseas Subscription form. Updated Member info page and Subscription page. Have you seen our new membership promotion postcard?

Sunday 19th February - New current index excel file uploaded. Also new members' points list uploaded. Lots of new poetry sent around the panel and indexed. Gradually catching up with submissions.

Thursday 16th February - AMP website has reviews and pictures from the Battle of the Bands second heat.

Wednesday 15th February - Funding application sent off for the Jazzmouth UK festival in Portsmouth or April.

Sunday 12th February - Poetry added to the Members' area again, poetry moved on to the new poetry page and Poetry Page 1. More planning for Jazzmouth UK poetry festival. Work towards Battle of the Bands for Wednesday. More work on Glimpses of Notes. More work on Alan Morrison's cover for Summer Collection. Events Page updated.

Saturday 11th February - Poll 1 updated. Poll 2 updated. Members New Poetry Page moved up to New Poems Page - there will be more poetry added to the members' area shortly. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 have all been updated. Polls 5 and 6 results below. New excel file for current index.

Friday 10th February - AMP website updated with news, images and reviews of 55561 Battle of the Bands.

Wednesday 8th February - 55561 Battle of the Bands first heat tonight.

Monday 6th February - Themes page updated. Members' area has some new poetry. We have a new promotional postcard for attracting new members. New Poetry page has new work and so does poetry page 4.

Sunday 5th February - More work on Glimpses of Notes. Planning for a poetry and jazz festival for Portsmouth in April. Spiel 63 is online now.

Wednesday 1st February - We are finally back online!! We had a few admin problems with the site files, so please get in touch if you notice any broken links. I have been working on restoring and updating all the site files. AMP is cancelled for today but Poole Survivors Poetry is on tomorrow and AMP daytime and 55561 Poole's Battle of the Bands is on next Wednesday as planned. I am putting together an email with all the latest news so please register if you would like it - you can unsubscribe at any time. You can also look at the previous archived newsletters on the register page.

Thursday 8th December - New email newsletter out - you can view it on the register page if you missed it. AMP page has been updated. New pages in the Paula Brown Publishing area for The River Swam and Sonnets to Let - both out now. All members print projects have been posted, along with contributor copies. Winter collection and free collection to follow shortly. Poems are still being passed around the panelfor Anthology 5.

Friday 2nd December - Site update is now complete. New polls 1 and 2, poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 have been updated. Events page updated. There is new poetry on the new poetry page and in the members' area. New email newsletter in preparation, please go to the resister page to sign up for our free email newsletters and to read the archived newsletters. Don't forget that our themes are open to entry from September, October, November and December. The new Spiel is online now.

Thursday 1st December - Survivors Poetry in Ottakars bookshop, Poole this evening - we started planning our "Six Second Survivors" poetry project for Geekfest, part of Dorset Arts Week in May 06.

Wednesday 24th November - Michael Egan launched his book The River Swam at Edge Hill in Liverpool and I posted them out to all of our members. We are waiting for the delayed Summer magazine and Autumn collection from Stephen Laskey - they should be delivered to me by 3rd December.

Monday 21st November - Poetry has been going around the panel to catch up with the submissions. They have all been busy making selections - see our current index excel file for details of what has been selected for Anthology 5.

Sunday 6th November - Site update is now almost complete. New polls 1 and 2, poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 have been updated. Events page updated. Poetry is about to go around the panel (see our about page to see who is on the panel this year)and now there is new poetry on the new poetry page and in the members' area. Theme page has been updated with themes until December. New email newsletter in preparation, please go to the resister page to sign up for our free email newsletters and to read the archived newsletters.

Saturday 5th November - Anthology 4 preparation is now complete and the file is with Yann for typesetting. (big relief!). Work continues with the site update and with Glimpses of Notes typesetting. Print proofs are arriving daily for forthcoming print projects. Updates and project completion will be much speedier now Anth 4 is out of my hands until the proofreading stage.

Thursday 3rd November - Sorry, Survivors' Poetry session at Ottakars in Poole is going ahead as usual but Paula will not be there this time.

Wednesday 2nd November - Site pages are being uploaded today. Anth 4 file is being finished - probably will go to design late today to prepare for a December release.

Tuesday 1st November - Spiel has moved to Spiel -I forgot to add the file extension .htm and this caused problems! Site update has been done behind the scenes - uploads of new pages will be tomorrow. Print proofs are starting to arrive now.

Thursday 27th October - So much news - where to start? Please see the register page for our latest email newsletters and details of how to sign up - also for the archive. The Poole Word & Book Festival was a great success at the beginning of the month (review on the register page archive) - we are now going through the evalution and feedback process. There is a new performance poetry event in Poole on the second Tuesday of the month at Centre Stage in Westbourne, next to the Pig & Whistle pub, doors open at 7.30 £2 to perform or simply enjoy. Flyers will be available soon. Work continues with the print projects - most are lined up ready to be printed. Website will be updated in full this weekend.

Sunday 10th October - I have updated the booktag page.

Saturday 9th October - Poetry slam was great tonight - please see register page for the newsletter about that and the rest of the festival.

Thursday 6th October - John Barclay's one man show was today - John held a captive audience for Dave the gardener, the Minister for War and even Zena, who is still seing those hyenas! The Portsmouth Poetry Slam was today as well. Well done to Marcus Smykovski for winning that!

Tuesday 4th October - Finally, this afternoon, the Uni course is finished! (and 9 days early, which is unusual for me!) Work now begins on the file for Anth 4.

Monday 3rd October - Dave spent the day in Poole with Tony Hillier as part of Poole Word & Book Festival as his minder - he was carrying rather a lot of cash so that he could pay £1 to passers by to read them a poem! Back on the farm, Paula was working on her end of course essay for uni until the small hours and updated the register page with some new newsletters too. There is a new category and archive for Paula's projects and poetry. Paula also waded through about 100 emails.

Sunday 2nd October - There is a new quiz show page for photos from last night. About Page has been updated. The DVD is with us from Poetry & Motion and we will be putting that on display in the Study Gallery in Poole tomorrow. Mitchell House page has a new image.

Saturday 1st October - About Page and Slam Page and Themes Page have been updated. Last season's panellists have been thanked and a possible set of panellists for this season have been invited. If you would like to be on the panel, please say so now! Members' Download page has been updated. Once all of the print publications are out, the url for the members' area will be changing. This will be given to current members. Tonight is the Quiz Show at Poole Word & Book Festival.

Friday 30th September - I have updated the sitemap a little and the members' area downloads page with the summer magazine. I have added the latest Spiel online and all of the Spiel archive too. There is a new excel file online for the current titles index and a new page for Anthology 4. Poetry Elections page has pictures from last night. The Spotlight page is now clear and all of the poems for Anthology 4 have been selected.

Thursday 29th September - Poetry Elections in Poole today 7.30pm atThe Study Gallery. Newsletter 14 went out. Please see REGISTER page if you missed it.

Monday 26th September - Posters/information has been uploaded for the PORTSMOUTH POETRY SLAM on National Poetry Day and for the Poole Poetry Elections.

 

All previous web log entries are on the weblog archive page.

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Recent Results

Theme results

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Spotlight Poll results (new spotlights will appear shortly)

Recent Spotlight Results - anth 6

Poll 1 Anth 6

First Place - So Here We Are Again - Gary Raymond
Second Place - Ross Meets Fry... - Mark Harnden

Poll 2 Anth 6

First Place - Rainy Day in Baseball Land - Joe De Marco
Second Place (Joint)- Winter - Andrew Shiston
Second Place (Joint)- A False Facade - Michele Schofield

Poll 3 Anth 6 - in progress here

Poll 4 Anth 6 - in progress here

News on the book projects. (see also projects page)

Glimpses of Notes by Alan Corkish is back in pre-press and the first draft is being proofed by Alan at the moment.

Cathedral Poems by Andrew Taylor is out now! See press release here. Order here

Spring (The River Swam by M G Egan) and Summer (Nigerian writers magazine) Autumn (Sonnets to Let) and Winter collections 05 (John Barclay's The Blood of Others) plus the special free edition (Poems & Profanities) are all out now. Spring 06 collection was "4 Liners 4 London" by Martin Brett. The Summer 06 collection was The Mansion Gardens by Alan Morrison. Autumn 06 collection is A Real Man by David Savoury, out now! Winter 06 is proofed as a text file, ready for print proofing and the Christmas Special Edition is print proofed.

Walking With Shadows is in the office now. See Paula Brown Publishing site for the page about this book. Download press release here. Walking With Shadows is the subject matter for Bath College's students with Clive Stocker to set to music for a cd project entitled Flameproof.

Anthology 3 is in the office now. Please consider buying extra copies as well as taking your free copy or we will not be able to afford to keep the project going.

Anthology 4/5, the combined issue will be out in December 2006 and launched at Ottakars bookshop in Poole, Dorset - date to be announced.

The Book of Muddy Paws is complete and in the office now, it was launched on 31st July at the Margaret Green Foundation Trust Animal Sanctuary at Church Knowle, near Corfe Castle in Dorset from 6pm. Refreshments are provided.

Alan Corkish's Corrupted Memories (2nd Edition) is out now!!!

Magic Light is now complete and we have stock in the office now, so why not buy one? After all...it might be your book which we produce one day.

Listening to the Birth of Crystals is now complete and in the office. The web page for the book has been updated. It was launched in Liverpool and in the USA on 1st July 2004.