Wednesday 1 August 2007

Poetry Rules

Unfinished Life shaping up well, but only read a few chapters as head too full of poems - our very exciting Open Mike* Poetry night at the Library is taking up all my brainpower. One of the treats of the evening will be a rendition of Edwin Morgan's Loch Ness Monster song. You can have a sneaky listen here at the poetryarchive.org, a splendid web site I thoroughly recommend.

*Let's open up the debate which has recently split our small community: would you spell the diminutive of microphone 'mike' or 'mic'?

3 comments:

Aileen said...

The Concise Oxford Dictionary lists both mic and mike as acceptable.

Karen said...

Ah, acceptable to the dictionary maybe but impossible to reach even grudging agreement between the Mike-ers and the Mic-ers, each thinks the other is totally ridiculous.

Aileen said...

There's no answer to that.