It's the arts

Chris Brooke reminded me that it's National Poetry Day on October 7th (a week on Thursday) and enquired if I'd be co-ordinating a similar effort to promote poetry on blogs as I did last year. The results of that can be seen here (scroll up from there for the rest of the day)

Well, I see no reason not to repeat the exercise, especially as this year you've got an extra week's notice this time around. Here's what I said last time around, though the theme this year is 'Food':

So, here's my idea - let's have a poetic blogburst on Thursday. I'm going to post a few poems by one of my favourite poets, and I invite you to do the same. Or, if you've written poetry yourself then see this as your chance to share them with the world. If you don't like poetry, write a post about why. Find sites that contain poems, or sites about poetry and tell us about them, even if it's just a collection of The Best Of Vogon Poetry. Whatever you want to do, if it's vaguely poetry-related then post it, tell me about and I'll link to it on Thursday.

Even though it's National Poetry Day, and is limited to Britain in the real world, I have no objection to anyone from beyond these shores taking part. The theme for the day is 'Britain' so you could choose a poem about Britain, or written by someone from Britain, or just something that reminds you of Britain, but I'm not going to impose any limits.

If you're interested, let me know either via the comments or email. If you want to know more about National Poetry Day and the other events that are going on that day, click on the link above to find out more. It won't take much time or effort to join in, and maybe we can make the world of blogging just a little poetic on Thursday. Whether it's poems you write, or just poems you like, it doesn't really matter. After all, even Donald Rumsfeld can have a book of poems published.

I'll try and do the same as last year - posting a few poems, and linking to anyone who wants to take part. You can either leave a message in the comments (I'll do an 'open thread' post on the day, so you don't have to track down this post) or email me.