ONS Giveaway: Skin Deep!
So I promised you another ONS giveaway, and since so many of you were disappointed about missing out on John Hegley’s book, I thought I’d up the ante. Read This Press is about to launch a brand new poetry pamphlet (I’m very excited!), and to celebrate, this one’s a RTP giveaway!
I have not one, not two, but FIVE copies of the first ever Read This Press anthology, Skin Deep, to give away. Skin Deep is a sweet, high-quality, handmade pamphlet of poems, all on the topic of tattoos and tattooing. It features work from tattoo expert Marisa DiMattia, prize-winning poets Kim Addonizio and Kevin Cadwallender, former ONS Featured Poets Juliet Wilson, Eric Hamilton, Christian Ward, Morganne Couch, Lucy Baker and William Soule, and a fantastic foreword by blogger and tattooed goddess Gala Darling. The print run was only 150, and I have only a very few copies left, so this could be your last chance to get a copy… it’s certainly your only chance to get one for free!
So if you want to get your hands on one of these five free copies, get yourself down to the comments box and tell me this: what are your favourite and least favourite words? I’ve already been asking people on Twitter and Facebook, with some interesting results! If you’ve already answered there, no worries — just pick a new word… or tell me again!
I’ll announce the winners on Friday 10th July, so you have a little time. By the way… if you already have a copy of Skin Deep and you’d like to try and win one of these as a gift, no worries — if you win, I’ll send your copy out to any address you specify.
Good luck!
Don’t forget to visit The Read This Store, and its sister store, Edinburgh Vintage!
Tags: advice for young writers, ons giveaway, publishing, resources for young writers, young poets
June 30th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Oh so very simple.
Favourite: Yes
Least favourite: No
June 30th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Least favorite:
for it’s sound - ointment
Favorite:
for what it suggests about poetry, the world - possibility
June 30th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Positive: xis (due to its high word score and frequency in scrabble)
Negative: synonym (would be nice for scrabble but just sounds awful)
June 30th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
One of my favourite words is ‘Sleet’. It’s got such a cold sharp sound to it.
One of my least favourites is ‘Cop’. It’s like biting off a burp.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Favourites: Gumption. Assiduous. Fortuitous. Hubris.
Least favourite - Fresh. I hate the sound it makes and it’s really overused. Carer. It sounds like a moan. If you were called ‘Sarah the Carer’ that would be the moaniest name ever.
Looking forward to the Fringe Claire!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Least favorite: moist. I don’t think I need to explain.
Most favorite: cerulian. If you say it very slowly it feels like being kissed.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
My favorite word is “bookish” because I really enjoy the sharp “k” sound in it. It also forms a picture of a beautiful old library in my head.
Least favorite is “obsequious” because it’s the prime example of the type of words standardized tests just adore. I had my share of testing lately.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Favorite: pernickety - such a fun word and perfect for passing off my obsessive fussing in a passive, playful way.
Least favorite: ‘moist’ - someone else listed it also, but it seriously freaks me out. ‘irk’ always sounds like someone grunting with a Boston accent, so I have to add that in, too.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
least favorite: salve
most favorite: jejune
Some really great least favorite words in here! (ew, ointment)
June 30th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
favourites: mollified ( such a great word!), inexorable and wallop, purely for it´s sound.
least favourite: precarious, denial ( and the stupid the Nile wordplays), periodically
June 30th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
With such a fabulous prize on offer, how can I resist leaving a comment?
Fav words: lemony, kinetic, valency, pomegranate, croon, pyroclastic
Least fav words: grubby, septic, pragmatic.
Really struggled to find words I didn’t like!
Anyway, best of luck to all :-)
Amy
xx
June 30th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
[...] This post was Twitted by amypalko [...]
June 30th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
One of my favourites right now is: expansive. It’s popped up in a few interesting situations of late.
I don’t like ‘like’ when it’s used excessively and pointlessly in conversation. There’s not much else that is really a least favourite though.
Thanks for the giveaway!
July 1st, 2009 at 5:22 am
Apple. It’s what things smell like when I think about them for long enough. It’s what I imagine lips taste like, and the feel and the sound are the same as heavy summer raindrops. And it’s the only fruit that has not been thrown at me after a tense night of intimate yelling and knuckles imprinted into plaster.
And I generally don’t dislike any words, but I’ll go with “asinine”. Because no one I know has that many of them.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:37 am
favourite: egg
least favourite: bleed
Hooray for giveaways x
July 1st, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Favourites: interrobang, hemidemisemiquaver, millennia
Least favourites: stroppy, whingey
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 am
[...] but true, I love paper! // hearing all your favourite words — still heaps of time to enter the ONS Giveaway! // new records from The Plum [...]
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
favorite: swish
least favorite: lard
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:12 am
Hmmm…
Favorite: Hidden
Least Favorite: Forgotten
DeepThinker.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:22 am
Favorites: pseudotsuga menziesii, the name of a lovely verdant pine tree. on a less latin note, I like the words vernacular and vehement.
Least Favorite: Sequoia. No gratuitous vowels, please.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:51 am
I despise the word ‘FLESH’
as used by poets trying
to be visceral; it makes me
want to go cyborg.
My poem about it:
I’m trying to find a way to say flesh
without pieces of it sticking in my mouth.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
favourites: tragic, smoke, epic, and perestoika, mostly for their sound, but I’m sure at least on some level for meaning as well, especially for the first three. Epic in the use suited for describing stories and poetry only, though, not as slang.
least favourites include pretentious, for meaning and ridiculous overuse, and grotty, purely based on its sound.
July 10th, 2009 at 10:00 am
[...] words make you wince? (never mind that, tell me here and maybe win a book!) // Don’t build your relationship on books // Behind Purple Ronnie // [...]
July 13th, 2009 at 10:00 am
[...] your favourite word? OK guys, you only have two more days to enter into the One Night Stanzas giveaway to win a copy of Skin Deep, the first poetry anthology from Read This Press… so get on it! [...]
July 14th, 2009 at 2:34 am
I absolutely love the word “katabatic” — feels like I’m playing the drums with my mouth when I say it! Another fave is “fruition.” Not only is it fun to say, it also feels like such a positive, uplifting word.
This is probably a cliché word to dislike, but something inside of me winces when I see the word “crimson.” It’s so overused it’s difficult to find it used in a way that doesn’t attract attention to itself — for me, at least.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Best word: zygote , as I think I once mentioned before.
Worst : Amazing, simply beacuse of it’s over use by naff TV presenters to describe just about any experience no matter how mundane.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:24 am
my favorite words?
empyrean
flesh (despite being otherwise mentioned as a least favorite, it puts me in mind of soft skin & tiny whispers)
velveteen
verisimilitude
least favorites are:
miracle
toe
reek
orgasm (surprisingly, i just find it an ugly word)
July 20th, 2009 at 10:01 am
[...] favourite words, the ONS giveaway: winners! So if you haven’t heard about my big giveaway — five copies of RT Press anthology Skin Deep — then a) you must have been living on [...]
November 3rd, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Thanks for post \o/