This Side Of Poetry by Michael Frearson

Hot on the heels of Being That Person, the first day of November saw Michael release his second collection of poetry on our little publishing imprint. 100 copies were made, hand-bound stamped and numbered. As is becoming the tradition with Michael there's a top trump for you to use in competition with your fellow poetry diggers, a badge featuring cover star Arthur the Zebra and also a CD:

Whoo! The CD packaging is particularly nice, and was designed and printed by the Searston brothers. On the CD are all the poems from the book, but performed out loud. Why deny your ears a bit of poetry eh? This one is a more varied affair than the acoustic sounds of the Being That Person CD, with each track accompanied differently by different local talented geezers and geezettes. There's Alex Blood taking the poem 'Somebody' into cut-up funk soul territory, Alex Bowen soundtracking 'Coming Home' on piano, and DJ Wax On taking live favourite 'The Day Supergirl Cried' into the bold territory of dramatic vinyl crackling Clayderman and low end hip hop beats. There's also me strumming along to 'Goodbye', probably my favourite of Michael's new poems that takes in all of the sentiment and references of previous pieces from both collections but with a whole new sense of perspective.

Hear some of these pieces here. You should also check out Michael's blog here, where he swears a lot and talks about, among other things, his increasing amount of poetic excursions. Busy as he is, he's also finally got round to writing a chapter for Emma and Jenn's interactive library novel SH.

If you would like to get your hands on this whole bundle, e-mail us and we'll sort out getting one off Michael for you.

This side of poetry

TTO are pleased to announce the upcoming release of Michael Frearson's second poetry chapbook, entitled "This side of poetry". The launch party is this Saturday, at Big Blue Coffee Co. on Sadlergate (we like it there).

There will be one hundred hand bound copies of the book, stitched by Fierce, Nath and myself over the coming week. I'm hoping that Fierce has been practising his needlepoint. Our shining star of the Mythbusters Sewing Circle, Biff, is away doing busy things, so it's going to be tough. But I'm sure we'll be okay.

For more info on the event, click here.

Hopefully, we'll see you on the night. Free Party Rings for all!

Being That Person by Michael Frearson

We Time Travel Opportunists are proud to present our third book release, a collection of poetry from Derby's finest spoken word performer Michael Frearson.

This first edition is limited to 100 hand-bound, hand-numbered copies. They're three pounds, and come with a free 'Work For Cheese' badge in a stamped envelope, along with a Being That Person ID Card with one of six fictional identities.

Inside are five poems that make up the tale, and a CD of them being performed at Baby J Studios in Derby with TTO's Biff accompanying the poetry on acoustic guitar. The CD was produced by Alex Blood.

We only have a couple of handfuls of these left after the roaring success of the launch night last month (photos of which will follow as soon as we get them). Order a copy of the book while you can from the TTO Bookshop.

Turrah,

TTO
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Being Michael Frearson...

...must feel pretty good at the moment. We bound all the copies of the book this week and just have to put the cds in the sleeves, hand number them, and put them all in a box to take down to Big Blue (Sadlergate, Derby) for the performance tonight.

We, the Time Travel Opportunists, have written a special piece to perform tonight. Taking the title of Michael's book, 'Being That Person', it's a story of a park told from three very different perspectives.

The line-up for tonight is so diverse. Alex Blood isn't coming after all because he's playing with Mark Ronson tonight. That's a shame, and not a shame at the same time. I think Chris Ballard is going to play without him. Chris has a lovely voice and plays the guitar.

It starts fairly early, half seven in fact. It's free to get in, there's loads of awesome people playing, there'll be free party rings, and the book for sale. Can't say fairer than that now can ye? (Click here for the flyer)

(Coming soon - photos of the new book)