JUNK/FOOD TENTH ANNIVERSARY!!
Hello again!!
I've decided to try and make Friday my regular day for posting something on the blog; aside for any other special occasions that might occur throughout the year. This week I'm going to mention my JUNK/FOOD re-issue; although only briefly! It's due out on the 1st November 2011 and I should be reading from it during my Poetry Cafe show on Friday 18th November 2011, along with stuff from THE VAMPIRE COWS OF SCUNTHORPE, FUNERAL FOR A SHOE and ARE WE THERE, YETI? JUNK/FOOD is a bit of a mixed bag - including poems that I wrote back in 1992, a couple from the later 90s - but with the majority of them from autumn 2001. This is the first time that the book has been available as a separate entity on http://www.lulu.com/ - it was previously available as a budget compilation with my second collection, ROLLERCOASTER, which is due to be re-issued in 2012. JUNK/FOOD began it's life as a self-published, hand-bound edition in late 2001 - but this edition includes new photos and commentary not available in the original edition. It's 96 pages long and will probably be about £5.99, but this is to be confirmed.
This post I intend to include one of the poems from JUNK/FOOD - I SHOULD NEVER, which I still perform to this day. I am also including the behind the scenes thoughts on it - from 2001 and more recently; ten years on.
That's all for now - there's lots more to be said, but I'll leave that to next time.
One thing I can reveal is that October should see my return to Hospital Radio after nearly 3 years!
More soon...
Yeti hugs,
Paul xx
I SHOULD NEVER - BEHIND THE SCENES
I SHOULD NEVER…
2001: What I wrote then…
This one is from 1999 or thereabouts and one that made me smile when I first wrote it - especially the bits about the toupee and the snake! Here I found a situation where the rhymes just came together deliciously easily! This poem changed shape from fat to thin during the revision process! Oh dear – you probably shouldn’t ask!
2011: Looking back now…
This is another piece that I continue to perform to this day and one of the earliest poems that appears in my SHY YETI RULES OK compilation from 2009. It’s a very silly piece indeed – but one that I still enjoy performing whenever I get the chance.
I SHOULD NEVER…
This is just a quick message
From me to say ta,
For dumping me last night –
And kicking me car.
Perhaps I deserved it –
Perhaps I was wrong,
I should never have said –
That your B.O. was strong.
I should never have said –
That your hairdo was mingin’,
Or laughed quite that hard –
When you went out folk singin’...
I should never have giggled –
And described you as fat,
Or wobbled your chins –
Or trod on your cat.
I should never have said –
That your parents were mental,
Or head-butted your granny –
No, I should have been gentle!
I should never have bought you –
That tropical snake,
That ate your Dad’s toupee –
AND HEAD –
By mistake...
I have to face facts now –
These things what I done,
Caused you to leave me –
And spoilt all our fun...
I’ve been told, “Oh my dear…
Now you’re going to miss ‘er...”
But I found myself saying,
“She’s a terrible kisser...”
I shouldn’t have said it –
Yes - I am bitter it’s true...
'Cos you’ve left…
…a great dent in my car from your shoe...
I SHOULD NEVER... is Copyright Paul Chandler 2011 and appears in his tenth anniversary re-issue of his first collection JUNK/FOOD, which is due out at the start of November 2011.
