As part of Hertfordshire libraries ‘My Story’ creative days around the county, some members of Poetry ID took part in the open-mic event in the afternoon. Of a total of nine story-tellers and poets, we were: Mark Randles, Rose Saliba, David Van Cauter, Simon Cockle and myself.
The library was full of varies types of creatives, from differing art styles to workshops for children of all ages, both inside and out-front of the library, while it was shady. A musician with her own folk-compositions sang from her recent album, before and after the open mic-session ( I now feel really bad as I don’t know her name, nor in fact, any others. Note: research needed.)
We each had approx 5 minutes, a reasonably normal time, to offer our work, and unsurprisingly we failed to stick to the time limit but pulled it back towards the finish. Finally only having over-run by 15 minutes.
Juices, tea, coffee and delicious cakes were welcome in those few minutes we could sneak upstairs.
All in all a very pleasant way to spend a summer’s afternoon with fellow creatives of all description.
We meet fortnightly via zoom, also fortnightly at The Settlement and these extra outings to ‘perform’ our poetry are a nice additional outlets for our enthusiasms and to meet for different occasions.