https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi Background for Patience Agabe Fall 2020 en-us 2020-10-23 12:19:52 UTC 2020-10-23 14:46:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/english-news/files/2015/03/telling-tales-reading-1024x932.jpg awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855508588 2020-10-23 12:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855508588 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855512859 2020-10-23 12:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855512859 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855517275 2020-10-23 12:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855517275 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855526749 2020-10-23 12:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855526749 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855542192 2020-10-23 12:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855542192 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855546360 2020-10-23 12:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855546360 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855549438 "Robert Knightly: is Professor of Creative Writing at UEA, a poety who has represented the British Council in Egypt, Turkey, Lithuania, Russia, Spain, Morocco and Algeria.  Hi s work is translated into 15 languages.  His third collection, Truth, Honour, Freedom and Courtesy (Carcanet Books, 2010) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize."
From Telling Tales, p. 117]]> 2020-10-23 12:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855549438 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855557774 "Mrs. Alice Ebi Bafa: I was born in Nigeria, married at 12 and lived in Ghana until Kwesi died.  Then I married a man from Sierra Leone who died on our wedding night.  Then I married an Englishman who died. Then a Nigerian who died also.  My fifth husband is toyboy, alive and kicking.
From Telling Tales, p. 115]]> 2020-10-23 12:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855557774 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855567072 "Huw Fryer Jones: is from Colwyn Bay, North Wales.  Studied music at Liverpool and did busking whilst a student for beer money and to impress the ladies. Brilliant! A born matchmaker, he makes his living singing at weddings.  His lyrics are romantic:  his verse is comic.  Has published a poetry pamphlet with Siren."
From Telling Tales, p. 117]]> 2020-10-23 12:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855567072 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855574899 Yejide Idowu-Clarke: I am a poet and publisher of academic books, educated at Queen's College, Lagos.  I read PPE, specializing in Philosophy, at Magdalen College, Oxford, gaining a First Class Honours.  I completed my master's degree in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University in 2009.  I am based in London and Lagos."
from Telling Tales, p. 117]]> 2020-10-23 12:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855574899 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855583178 Soul Merchant:  was converted in Wigan Casino in '74 and hasn't looked back.  Became Northern Soul record dealer and for years ran massive stall in Affleck's Palace, Manchester.  Specialised in rare imports, white labels.  Been DJ for 20 years.  Now has regular spot at the Twisted Wheel.  This is his first published piece."
from Telling Tales, p. 118]]> 2020-10-23 12:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855583178 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855592497 Frankie Lynn:  once upon a time, there was a wee girl who grew up in an open house with open books that opened minds.  They grew their own food and ran a vegan cafe in Edinburgh, Tatties and Neeps, giving free food to the homeless.  One day, she found a magic pen.....
From Telling Tales, p. 117]]> 2020-10-23 12:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855592497 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855611563 2020-10-23 12:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855611563 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855624792 2020-10-23 13:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855624792 awheeler94 https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855638998 So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Streams of Story, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the ocean began to have an effect on Haroun.  He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale.  Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe.  And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns.  It was not dead but alive.
Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, pp. 71-72]]> 2020-10-23 13:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler94/9aikchul4fauvnfi/wish/855638998