Fiesta Time (13): The Olympic Torch on Ipswich Waterfront

16.20 pm ~ I arrived as the stewards were being briefed ...

... there were a few people sitting outside Theta on the UCS forecourt ...

... the water was full of boats ...

... and flags ...

 ... David was busy tweeting ...

... as a float came past ...

... and then a balloon seller ...

... People arrived from nowhere, and soon the Waterfront was hopping ...

... We finally got a brief glimpse of the Olympic torch as it headed on towards Christchurch Park ...

... 18.45 pm, and somebody was still tweeting away in the sunshine! 

There has been much publicity about Poetry Parnassus, running in tandem this year with the Olympic Games. I will throw a link back to this previous post on poetry and Olympia ... here.

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Fiesta Time (11): Forget the Skylark ... All Poets Aboard the #twittercopter!

Not actually the

#twittercopter

but a helicopter nonetheless (this one is at Tretower, home of the Vaughan family, so poetic connections ...)

I believe Twittercopter Poetry was launched yesterday by Sally Evans, editor of Poetry Scotland, as a means of feeling more involved in the Parnassus activities for those of us who don't live in London. The idea is that you paste the url link to one of your online poems into a Tweet (and Twitter will automatically shorten it). Be sure to include the following tags ... 

(a) #twittercopter 

(b) #Parnassus 

And then you send the Tweet out into the Twittersphere (or should that be the Twittosphere?) for all to enjoy, rather as if your poem was being cast adrift from the London helicopter. 

Then, when you are on Twitter, do look up #twittercopter to enjoy the Twittercoptered poems on display. I hope you may care to join in ... and encourage other Poetweeters by spreading the word on Facebook etc.

I was only reading Simon Armitage's account of the colossal Poetry Parnassus plans yesterday in the Poetry Society's journal, Poetry Review. I began to realise just how large a project it has all been, so it is particularly good to feel that those of us who cannot be in London, can still enjoy a poetic journey with this innovative, virtual and sustainable skyrider, the  #twittercopter! 

Ensure your poem is on board!