The Poetry Party

The Poetry Party

I started this in school, back in the late 60s, early 70s.
The idea is that everyone sends in verses.

Jan 2003 - I had to re-engineer the first verse from memory when creating this page, but I have now found the yellowing, foxed, hand-typed original, at right - click to enlarge. By gum that'll be worth a fortune in years to come.

by Nick Blackburn et. al. click here to send in a verse
© 1972-73, 2002-05

It was a multi-beered,
multi-tiered,
sometimes feared,
engagingly weird,
loudly heared,
onomatopoeiad,
limitless and ever-growing
Party.

Those not invited included
Tory peers,
ancient seers,
all keg beers,
buccaneers,
engineers
with pruning shears,
Billy Sheers,
Britney Speers
and
Wackford Squeers

those who did come were,

	seq	Ref	Note	Author	Date
the faintly absurd humming bird	1	1.23			1970
the angular angler	2	5.32			1970
the apostle fossil	3	3.28			1970
Thunderbirds argot	4	21.01		Nick	10 Jan 2002
the clandestine assembly line	5	1.8			1970
the paranoid asteroid	6	5.13			1970
the sandwich's bandages	7	21.02	1		26 Jan 2002
"The Venison" said Alfred Tennyson	8	10.7			1970
the thin king, thinking	9	21.03			2 Feb 02
the maiden aunts Made in France	10	21.04			2 Feb 02
the rateric icysdlex	11	22.01	2	Steve S	2 Feb 02
The nefarious gregarious unchivalrous red omnibus	12	22.02	2		2 Feb 02
the bakelite acolyte	13	21.05		Nick	10 Feb 02
the over-ripe archetype	14	1.6			1970
the urban turban	15	11.29			1970
the tan smock ran amok	16	10.6			1970
the hinge meant infringement	17	10.20			1970
the loot meant recruitment	18	10.29	6		1970
their resolve meant involvement	19	10.30			1970
the consequential existential inessential HB pencil	20	1.4	3		1970
the awesome foursome	21	2.35			1970
the threesome see some	22	2.36			1970
the gruesome twosome screw some	23	2.37	4		1970
the turd stirred	24	3.10			1970
the Satanic mechanic	25	3.15			1970
the gent sent spent tent poles	26	3.26			1970
the daughter thwarter sought a shorter sort o' mortar	27	4.33			1970
the wrong song	28	5.2	5		1970
the wrong thong	29	13.36	5		1970
the terse verse	30	4.3			1970
the one of many two-a-penny theodolites	31	5.36	7		1970
the kind find self-satisfaction	32	6.11			1970
the shocking stocking	33	7.26			1970
the flaws cause nausea	34	9.33			1970
the applause thaws because whores pause	35	9.34			1970
the coven meant government	36	10.22			1970
the prosaic mosaic	37	11.19			1970
the glass arse	38	11.23			1970
the neglect effect	39	11.26			1970
the cryptic dip stick	40	11.27			1970
the rigorous vigorous bigamous bigger mouse	41	11.37			1970
the rent-a mentor centre	42	13.30			1970
the spotty botty on the grotty potty	43	13.33			1970
the sinister minister	44	13.34			1970
the bland hell and high watermark	45	7.30	8		1970
the mud Lud Beethoven drove in	46	6.17	9		1970
the overladen Baden Powell scowl	47	6.12			1970
the banal Karl Marx barks	48	6.13			1970
the banal canal	49	_∞.38	10 and 5 ish		1970
the keen, lean, mean, Dean been seen with the trampoline queen	50	5.28	11		1970
the tennis menace	51	_∞.14			1970
the librarians hairy 'uns	52	23.01		Stephen C	10 Feb 02
the vicars masticated knickers, elasticated	53	23.02			13 Feb 02
the septic sceptic	54	21.06	12		14 Feb 02
the Bishop (prick)	55	21.07			15 Feb 02
the mist missed mysteriously	56	21.08			15 Feb 02
the nursery nurse’s cursory curses	57	21.08			15 Feb 02
the underprivileged plunder Liversedge	58	21.10			15 Feb 02
(and here come the canapés, at long last:) berate the very deliberate deli liver delivery	59	21.11			17 Feb 02
the rubbery shrubbery robbery	60	21.12			4 Jul 02
Alice licks lice	61	21.13	13		4 Jul 02
Sharon shares sherry	62	21.14	13		4 Jul 02
the moderate plodder ate fodder eight times a day	63	21.15			16 Sep 02
the pantry pantie party	64	21.16			30 Sep 02
the flagrant fragrant vagrant	65	21.17	14		1 Dec 02
the care home hair comb	66	21.18			15 Jan 03
the gay mover: game over	67	anon.1	6		24 May 03
the bar king embarking in Barking	68	21.19			15 Jul 03
the laminate with lamb in it	69	21.20			7 Feb 04
the gender agenda	70	21.21			7 Feb 04
the efficient fish hunt	71	21.22			7 Apr 04
the lettuce fetish	72	21.23			30 May 04
the martyrs' tomatoes	73	21.24			26 Aug 04
the Polish polish	74	21.25			4 May 05
the aspiring aspirin	75	21.26			14 Jun 05
the furry fury	76	21.27			28 Feb 06
the fat fluent flatulent flaut	77	21.27			28 Feb 06

I'm not sure what the reference number is, but I think it must be page.verse in the typed original (no PCs and word processors then, in Wales at least). I will leave the old ones in and use 2contributor.item for new ones.

The Notes page contains the notes, list of authors and updates plus other admin bits.

The index page is just what it says, and probably no more accurate than the other index pages on this site.

Background is similarly self-explanatory.

Click here to send one in.