Bello Bards Bugle: News as of May 30, 2010

Dear bards and friends of Bello Bards,

Thank you for your involvement. Our last monthly B. Bards meet at Guru Food on Friday, May 29, was excellent. Thank you, Brian Hawkins and others, who recorded it for posterity. We're getting poems and comments to http://bellobards.blogspot.com/ -- however, after 39 monthly meets we could probably use some more -- we have hundreds of original poems that have been read at poetry nights, but only a handful online at our new website, so keep sending them in, folks. Everyone tells me they want to see more, and only you poets and Bello Bards friends can do it. This blog explains how.

On Saturday, May 29, Marti Guy and I attended a meeting chaired by Brian Purcell, with a view to Bellingen poets being involved with a Bellingen writers' festival, planned to be held April 9-10, 2011. As one of the Bellingen Valley's best-established and best-attended groups of writers, readers and listeners, we hope and expect that Bello Bards, Bellingen's active group of poets and poetry lovers, will be closely involved with such a festival of the written word. We expect a friendly co-working arrangement with the writers' festival group.

Please stay in touch through http://bellobards.blogspot.com/ which we hope you will bookmark and check regularly for new poems, comments, discussions and news. And as the Bello Bards webservant, I hope these will all come from you.

Just a reminder: the minutes of our recent Bello Bards inaugural meeting are kept at http://bellobards.blogspot.com/2010/05/minutes-of-bello-bards-inaugural.html

AND PLEASE PUT IN YOUR DIARY: The next Bello Bards meeting, to discuss, inter alia:
(a) Our attendance at the Nimbin Poetry World Cup (July 31 - August 1, 2010); and
(b) Getting some others besides yours truly to become a group of administrators of the Bello Bards Blog,

will be held on Friday, June 11. at 6:30 pm, around the barbecue at Wilson's 'Ponderosa', 23 Dowle St, Bello -- again, please BYOG and at least enough tucker for yourself. Leftovers of food and beverages are never wasted at The Ponderosa. If it's raining, we'll see if we can light the stove in the kitchen. I have it on quite good authority that such a thing is possible.

Kind regards,

Pip, webservant and scribbler