What’s in a poet’s bag?: Claire’s bag, 16/06/2009
– The bag itself: a leather satchel I got recently from a fleamarket stall at Meadowsfest. Before I had this hideous mock-croc manbag from Topman because it was huge, and cheap in the sale. I’ve been looking for a cheap second-hand satchel with a shoulder-strap for ages, and this was only £3. Fate!
– Board pens for work.
– Spotty brolly for the Scottish summer.
– Moleskine extra-large softcover 18-month planner, a.k.a my Bible.
– Writing notebook (with stickers pulled of lampposts and whatnot), the second of two bought in Canada last year.
– Kodak Advantix manual camera, plus a spare film, for snapshots. I sometimes cart my digital camera, a Canon Powershot G5, around with me too… but it’s huge, and annoying.
– Reading material: The latest copy of The Skinny // Brikolage zine // a copy of Skin Deep // a few of the latest Read This // the lastest Rattle, featuring Heather Bell // Women’s Work poetry anthology // Growling Softly from Blood Pudding Press // Heather Bell’s flash-fic pamphet FACTS of Combat.
– Read This Magazine/One Night Stanzas business cards.
– Random bits: proximity card for work, huge bunch of keys, phone, MP3 player (i-scream) and headphones (Sony), Body Shop lip balm, wallet and change/bits-and-pieces purse.
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Tags: advice for young writers, publishing, resources for young writers, whats in a poets bag, young poets
June 25th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Ooo yay FACTS is in your bag! And Rattle!
You wouldn’t want to see what is in my bag. Receipts, mainly. It is a white bag that I only bought because I was, for some reason at the time, obsessed with having everything be white that I own. Which only means the bag is now dirty brown.
I also carry pepper spray, a knife my husband found for me in the desert, a Chinese coin my uncle gave me, a peso (yes, random coins for no reason), hair ties, my ripped wallet, and a hand mirror that I got for free for signing up for a trashy magazine. I can’t fit books in my bag because I never clean the bag out, so there is no room :(
I am so unexciting!
-H.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Oh, I loved this, Claire!
I have a little bag right now that resembles a small piece of luggage, but it’s got a small notebook for jotting ideas and lines down- hubby bought it for me on a business trip to Hong Kong. A pen of course, phone, a book review of Roberto Belano’s 2666, my wallet, and let’s see- not much else… I’m very unexciting too! I have to get me one of those satchels!
;)
June 28th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
How timely that I see this (linked on twitter). Yesterday my best friend was complaining about how heavy my bag was while we were at the zoo (I was the one carrying it!)
since I’m allergic to going to sleep, i posted an imprecise approximation of my bag and its contents on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itesser/3667271323/