Iain Kemp Poetry
Listen to the Poems that Iain has recorded for Almerimar Life Blog:
Greetings
Hi folks! Thanks for dropping in… this is not so much my blog as a little mini-blog tucked away neatly inside Chris’ blog. Anyway here is where you can read and listen to some of my poetry…I usually post something new once or twice a week and there is a new podcast every Friday. If you want to subscribe to the podcasts in iTunes just click this link, the page it goes to is in Spanish so look out for “suscribirse a esta fuente”.
If you’d like to leave comments please feel free…you need to register on the forum, just username & password & e-mail so no big deal. Please feel free to leave a comment below or email me any comments, thoughts, or prompts that you would like me to write to: iain@movistar.es
Bio
Iain Douglas Kemp lives and works in Almería, Andalucía, Southern Spain. He has been writing for over 30 years. He considers himself a Poet first and a teacher second. His influences include Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Wes Magee and Stevie Smith and twenty thousand song titles. Publishing credits include a weekly poem in “The Reader”, free English language newspaper for the Almería region, regular contributions to two local websites and podcast readings here on www.almerimarlife.com. In May 2010 the poem Peregrine was recorded for podcast on the ‘Born Free’ Web site by Virginia McKenna, the first time this has been done other than for the poet in residence! You can check that out here.
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The short poem “visual echoes” was published by Barbara Subraman/Gypsy Art Show in the visual poetry/music collaborative work “GAZE” in January 2010. He is a member of the on-line poetry group “The Baker’s Dozen” with whom he writes daily in between his busy schedule as a teacher of English as a foreign language. He also contributes regularly to Poetic Asides with Robert Lee Brewer & Big Tent Poetry |
Read the Poems that Iain has posted on the Almerimar Life Forum:
You can subscribe to Iain Kemp Poetry on iTunes here
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Prompted – an international collection of poems – by 40 Facebook poets includes 3 poems by local poet Iain Douglas Kemp £6.99 all royalties go to LitWorld a children’s literacy charity. Anyone buying in Almerimar or area can arrange to have book signed by Iain |
Live at Mac Gowan’s 5th November 2010
An evening of poetry where I read some of my personal favourites from my own pen, some of my all time favourites from some great poets and am joined by a few guest readers as well
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