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NaPoWriMo 2023: The end and the beginning

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It’s the end of NaPoWriMo, but it’s also just the beginning as you begin to develop, polish and share the poems you’ve written during April. This podcast features some of the poems contributors to this year’s podcasts have already shared. There are poems by Will Ingrams, Java, Brent Hagen, Haley Nguyen, Scott Gooch and Patrick Widdess.
Please send up to three poems you’ve written during NaPoWriMo including the prompts that inspired them here for inclusion in a future podcast. If possible please send a recording of yourself reading your poems as well the text. Deadline is May 31.

NaPoWriMo Day 28: Scott Gooch – Poetry for the year 3023

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Scott Gooch returns with a prompt from the future – 1,000 years to be precise. So crank up your time machines and get ready for today’s NaPoWriMo prompt.

I is

A reflection within a void of empty space
I stare… I stare into its face, its shell, its… Shell…
I know underneath It contains what is left but…
To me… It is a drone, and a drone is a drone
Alone within its shiny shell
Yet…
I know that within that void it stares back
I stare… It stares… back, through its empty face
It knows that underneath I contain what is left but
To it… I is… I is… A drone… Is a drone
Alone within its shiny shell… I’m
A reflection

Prompt: This poem is part of a small series of futurism poems I perform exploring the relationship between humans and machines. In this poetry collection the concept between human and machine is fluid where the lines between consciousness are blurred even more than the real world. Inspired by my look into the future I would like to challenge you to write a poem which could have been written and/or performed in the year 3023. Think what might have changed in 1000 years or what might not have changed, would the poet be reflecting on the past or to the future?

Scott Gooch is a Norfolk poet and improv performer who has had his poetry broadcast on local radio and regularly performs at local poetry nights. He looks forward to developing his futuristic and fantasy poetry in future planned and unplanned projects.

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NaPoWriMo Day Three: Scott Gooch – Machinery

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Today we welcome one of the top contributors to last year’s NaPoWriMo, Scott Gooch, with a poem he wrote during the challenge.

Scott’s machinery prompt

With this Luc Bat style poem I took a typewriter and broke it down to the sounds and themes that inspired me when thinking of using a typewriter. I would like to challenge you to take a similar machine or device and write a poem exploring the senses and themes you associate with the device, think of the structure of the poem and experiment with representing the sense to really embody the chosen device.

Typewriter

*Click-clack….* Typewriter goes
Love, Life, Poetry, Prose… *Click-clack*
Lever pulled… Carriage back…
*Pringgg…Chu-click* Paper slack… Keys protest!
*Click-clack…* Hot off the press…
  Liberty or oppress… [Redact]
*Pringgg…Chu-click..* Fiction *Clack…*
Fantasy…In jet-black…*thruick-chuck*
Story…Truth…Lies…Unstuck!
History in stone struck!!…Typewriter!
 Rewriter!! Unwriter!! Fighter!!
A protest igniter…Cut! Print!
Truth in writers’ tint
*Pringg…Chu-click…* Lies reprint…[Redact]
*Click-Clack…Click-Clack! Click-CLACK!!!* 

Scott Gooch

Scott Gooch is a Norfolk poet and improv performer who has had his poetry broadcast on local radio and regularly performs at local poetry nights. He looks forward to developing his futuristic and fantasy poetry in future planned and unplanned projects. 

If you’ve enjoyed this podcast please consider showing your support with a donation via ko-fi.com

Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com

Books by many of the poets featured on the podcast are available from the Poetry Non-Stop bookshop here. All books purchased via this link help to raise money to keep this podcast going.