TFE's Poetry Bus: It's An Ark This Week!

Eschewing this week's obvious prompt (I love you Mum! But no poem for you this week.) I have a prompt and a masterplan.

Prompt first:

I want a poem, any sort of poem, about an animal. More specifically, any one of these animals:

1) The Dolphin

2) The Gecko

3) The Panther

4) The Bushbaby

5) The Archerfish

6) The Kingfisher

7) The Harrier

8) The Ring-tailed Lemur

But if none of these take your fancy, any animal will be just fine.

Now, the Masterplan.

I know that this is the Bus, but it's Arthritis Care Week (UK) at the start of May, and I work for Arthritis Care. In order to get the week off to a strangely literary start, I am in the process of planning a reading party at the University of Glasgow involving students on the various Creative Writing degree courses. In order to make the party a bit of a fundraiser too, I'm also planning to have a making pamphlets/artist's books workshop-py day beforehand, with what's produced going to raffle or auction on the night. I'm getting very into altered books at the moment (when you take an existing book/brochure/paper thing and change it), and I have a fantastic brochure with pictures of the above listed animals in it. My intention is to produce a one-off pamphlet for the big night, and to use some Bus contributions as the text. It's not like being published - this is an objet d'art.

Anyway, I do not intend to use anyone's poem without their permission, so if you ride the Bus this week I'll get in touch about using your poem.

Is that clear? I hope that's clear.

I'll do the links post on Monday. Which is the school holidays. Do you realise Scottish children are only at school for eight days in the whole of April? Pity me. And ride The Bus!

All the links to the poems are in the post above. Up top. There!