Your system or mine! Years ago they said it was a unique opportunity to sort out
the
funding for the
arts in the
UK., and would I please duly submit my
application from Northern Ireland to London for funding my
literature as my work
was indeed "great!. I
sent it off but because I am UK Mainland based I had to
redirect my funding project to London who in turn sent it back away down South
where I am to have them "down South" fund not up there in the Capital City of
London.
I decided to bury the whole project and sent a great poem entitled:
London Underground to be published in
Poetry Now Southern Poets in
October, 2007 by www.forwardpress.co.uk., to the Mayor of London,
Ken Livingstone ..
Mr. Livingstone''s Office sent me a very encouraging email back and thanked
me for my poem which they enjoyed and appreciated but offered a link on
the email from the Mayor''s Office in London to contact the Arts Council
England about funding ... so my big pack arrived yet again, and I emailed
my publishers in America for permission to photocopy my book: ROCK ME
and sent manuscript off with application .. so far so good, Publish~America
agreed and its all gone off including my brand new CV to London Arts
Funding
This time I got advice to stress that I was an individual not an organisation
and even my friends got confused so here I am over the August bank holiday
sorting out the mess while all my friends are enjoying their summer break
before the beginning of the new term ... well I have worked hard on this
application and ticked all the boxes in black pen and I even read it 10
times to ensure there were no mistakes, its a perfect application and that
I am infallible in matters relating to applications for funding in Literature in London.
In fact I am something of an expert on the subject and my colleague on the
Board at the Poetry Society was the man in question .... he who has no
name who is in charge of Arts Council funding for England but for the
Poetry Society in London, alas! not for me personally as a poet!
So will keep you posted in relation to the anticipated success in
funding for literature from Arts Council England. At least this time
we have got it right ... remarked the young man at Waterstones
Bookshop in Southampton ... London is indeed the place for poetry
... and literature!
Artistic reading . keep on reading ... excellent stuff!.
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