{"id":5655,"date":"2015-06-07T23:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2015-06-07T23:48:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T03:48:49","slug":"eyes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/eyes-up\/","title":{"rendered":"“Eyes up” …"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a little under four & half days time, i.e. on \u2014 Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:00:00 PM (ACST, UTC+9:30 hours) which is 9:30:00 AM on the United States East Coast (EDT, UTC-4 hours) I will be starting the 24 hour poetry marathon (thepoetrymarathon.com)<\/p>\n

It came about in the following fashion:<\/p>\n

Mike Hopkins, well-known local SA sadist (& masochist \u2014 he runs marathons for real; like, non-on-the-couch ones) shared a link on Facebook with a couple of his cohorts who seem to think writing a poem a day for a month is something one does for pleasure. (NaPoWriMo)<\/p>\n

MH: You game for this?<\/p>\n

TK: good god, MH\u2026we really do like to make poetry either a blood sport or an endurance event….why can\u2019t we all just sip tea and scratch out the occasional, romantic villanelle???<\/p>\n

MH: No discipline, that\u2019s my problem. If I haven\u2019t got a deadline or a challenge, I just vegetate.<\/p>\n

grj: I\u2019m willing to give it a crack…<\/p>\n

MH: Bloody hell g, you\u2019re meant to say \u201cThat\u2019s madness\u201d, and then I say \u201cYeah I s\u2019pose you\u2019re right, maybe next year\u201d<\/p>\n

grj: That\u2019s madness. But let\u2019s see how far we get
\ngrj: PS (I then posted a screen cap of my application)<\/p>\n

MH: Yeah I s\u2019pose you\u2019re right, maybe next year but great to see that you\u2019re committed to it. Look forward to your 24 poems<\/p>\n

I must confess, I have a specific project in mind which I\u2019ve been wanting to do for a while \u2014 but never made the time for it.<\/p>\n

I think this will make the job of cranking out 24 poems in a day considerably easier. Or a total nightmare if it doesn’t work out.<\/p>\n

Either way, this\u2019ll be a good way to find out if the idea has any \u201clegs!!\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

\"TFL\"<\/a>\"TFL\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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