tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34879032012-02-14T09:50:23.092ZUnforgivably daft musings of a daffy performance poet in the making. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! :) PS - If you think any of these poems are really rather silly and want to tell me so - or if you want to give me suggestions for subjects that would make for good poetry - then please mail me, post haste at PCBEECHES@HOTMAIL.COM ALL POEMS COPYRIGHT PAUL CHANDLER - 2001-2011.Paul Chandlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11828102485338544197noreply@blogger.comBlogger1931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3487903.post-1796604137568741062012-02-09T22:16:00.003Z2012-02-09T22:24:06.035Z

VALENTINE'S RADIO WEY APPEARANCE Hello! This week I'm here to announce my next appearance on Radio Wey - but also to announce one or two other things! First up I have some links to a new SHY YETI ON LOCATION episode - the penultimate episode of YETI HUNT U.S.A., no less! This week we are also celebrating passing our 5000th hit on our MRSHYYETI Youtube profile - we've had over 1000 hits in less

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NEW COMPILATION "CACTUS HEART" RELEASED TODAY! Hi, This week we're turning our attention on a new mini-compilation which I have just released this week called CACTUS HEART. The main reason that this book exists is because of the photo that appears on the cover, which I took during a trip to Los Angeles back in the Summer of 2011. Here's some information on it and where you can get a copy should

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SHY YETI U.S.A. RETURNS Hello folks!, Well, this week I'm very pleased to announce that SHY YETI U.S.A. is back for its final 3 episodes... Those of you who have watched the earlier episodes will know that the first five episodes were filmed back in Summer 2011 and so far were posted in two batches: parts 1-3 during October 2011 and parts 4-5 back in December. Well, the final three episodes

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UNEXPECTED FILMING, NEW STUFF AND SOMETHING FOR YOU TO READ... Hi, I've been rather more busy that expected since I finished work on Friday - despite having a cold I end the weekend having achieved quite a bit creativily. I credit it all to seeing Hannah And Her Sister at the BFI on Friday; on the train home I couldn't stop writing! So what occurred? Well, basically I wrote quite a bit this

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A YETI-TACULAR YEAR AHEAD IN 2012... Hi folks, As I promised, this week I'll be giving you a run-down as to what you can expect from me during 2012. To start with, let's talk about yeti films! I want to begin here because I have a couple of new videos to bring to your attention... JUNK/FOOD 10TH ANNIVERSARY GIG - 2 Youtube link:  http://youtu.be/Ohwk1PoieAo This is the second film from the

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Greetings readings! Just a quick post to start the year as it's been a pretty busy week here in Yeti Towers... But first, what is this curious drawing that you have attached at the top of this post, you may ask? Well, I can answer you there... It's another of Pete Katsiaounis's drawing from FUNERAL FOR A SHOE - which is still available in hardback and paperback from http://

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MR SHY YETI'S SECOND SLIGHTY DISTURBING CHRISTMAS STORY!! Hello! So, what do you think!?! I do hope you like the new logo! It's one of a few new logos that I'll be unveiling in 2012 in my next couple of books ARE WE THERE, YETI!?! and NOT AS SHY AS IT WAS. The logo's by Pete Katsiaounis who also did my illustrations for the FUNERAL FOR A SHOE segment of my last

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THE FIRST OF TWO NEW STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS Hello! As you may or may not recall I wrote a couple of poems a month or two back which I had originally intended for posting on the blog. These were called MISTLETOE MANIA and IS IT CHRISTMAS ALREADY? However, my plans have changed since I performed them on Radio Wey and edited them into videos (they can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/qOnU3HDSj_0 ) I

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YOUR CHANCE TO INFLUENCE WHICH YETI FILM HITS THE TOP SPOT!! :) Greetings! This post is all about my many various yeti films - old and new! I can't believe how many there are - well over fifty now. Although I made my first poetry videos back in 2008, it wasn't until the start of 2010 that I began to make them regularly! Now there's lots! Anyway... I'm pleased to be able to announce another new

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CHRISTMAS YETI - ON THE RADIO... Hello! Well, I am glad to announce that all went very well on Saturday for my return to Radio Wey for a Christmas-themed episode. All in all I read 11 poems and short stories during the two hour show and I am pleased to be able to share them with you, as you will see below. The material I read all comes from my new TOO SLUSHY FOR SNOWMAN compilation which I

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RADIO YE-TI My Christmassy Return To Radio Wey - and Other Stuff... Hi! Hello, you fuzzy people - I do hope you're all well! As usual there's quite a lot to cover this week - let's begin with an update the Poetry Cafe show; which is nearly two weeks ago now, already! Basically there is a video up on Youtube and Vimeo and here's some more information and links to the videos... JUNK/FOOD - 10TH

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JUNK/FOOD - 10TH ANNIVERSARY GIG! 18th November 2011, Poetry Cafe, London Hi, Well - it all went without a hitch and a good night was had by all... Hopefully! Oooh! That was the short review of the night, at least... Wanna know some more? Wanna know loads more? hehe. Okay... Here we go! All you ever wanted to know about last friday's gig, but were afraid to ask... There will be a video, of course

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FUNERAL FOR A SHOE IS LAUNCHED - GIG THIS FRIDAY! Hello! Yes... I'm back safely from my L.A. trip... As you may or may not recall I did a post last week about what I got up to during that trip; although there was one last filming session before I flew home. As I didn't fly out until Saturday evening there was time for Dominic and I to pop to Griffith Park for one last trip and it turned out to

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HAVING A GLORIOUS TIME IN CALIFORNIA! WISH YOU WERE HERE! Hello folks, I really don't intend this as a gloating exercise - it's really not! Partly I just want to be able to keep up with my weekly posting on the blog until the end of the year and also to update you on the trip and what I've got up to creatively. No photos to share with you yet - just a couple of

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A NEW YETI INTERVIEW WITH THE BEARGRRRIANS! Before we begin the interview - two more links: YETI HUNT U.S.A. - PART 3 THE HILLS ARE STILL ALIVE!!! is the third episode of a new SHY YETI ON LOCATION series - YETI HUNT U.S.A., which returns us to the U.S.A. on the hunt for Shy Yeti's yeti relatives... We begin our hunt in L.A. once again - but we will be moving to a few other locations during

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FUNERAL FOR A SHOE WILL BE OUT IN NOVEMBER... ...AND THIS IS SOME OF THE FAB ARTWORK FROM IT!! Hello! Yes, it's true! I wasn't sure whether to release this book before or after Christmas - but it's been thoroughly proofread - all the artwork has been received and I'm well over half-way through writing it's sequel! Not to mention that but I have a gig on 18th November for JUNK/FOOD which is the

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YETI HUNT U.S.A., LILLE AND NEW "JUNK/FOOD"!! Hi, Not a long post this week - I'm heading off to Lille this weekend to film some more videos; well - at least I hope I am. With a bit of luck I'll end up with enough footage for at least one episode! Maybe two!! Hopefully a second one will be from either Brugge or Ghent; depending where I'm able to get to on my day out on the Saturday. They'll be

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FIVE NEW VIDEOS AND A TRIP TO RADIO WEY!! Hi, This week I have news about a couple of things in the yeti world; one concerns my trip to Radio Wey on Saturday 8th October and the other is that there are five new videos on Youtube and Vimeo for your delectation. I think we'll start with those... The reason that there are five videos is that 4 of them are very short and are what would have been my

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A NEW VERSION OF THE TRUE LIGHT!! Hello, I won't stay long! But I thought you might be interested to read a new version of THE TRUE LIGHT which I decided to write today... Essentially it's THE TRUE LIGHT - the prose version! I hope you enjoy it, anyway! More next week - when I should be able to report on how reading on Radio Wey went and I should finally be able to announce the release of a

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IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY - HAPPY BIRTHDAY "THE TRUE LIGHT!" I do hope that the rest of my poems don't get upset - some of them are well passed their 10th anniversaries and I never said a word when they did and many others will be reaching their 10th anniversaries any day now. But today, 10 years ago I wrote THE TRUE LIGHT, which has proved to be one of my most enduring poems - at least in

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COMING UP IN OCTOBER 2011... 1) Finishing touches to FUNERAL FOR A SHOE Well, I'm pretty much all done for this collection now - but just awaiting the crowning glory; some illustrations that have been especially commission for the book. It depends how quickly those are completed as to whether I realise it in November when the JUNK/FOOD 10th anniversary book is launched or whether I leave it

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COMING SOON... JUNK/FOOD TENTH ANNIVERSARY!! Hello again!! I've decided to try and make Friday my regular day for posting something on the blog; aside for any other special occasions that might occur throughout the year. This week I'm going to mention my JUNK/FOOD re-issue; although only briefly! It's due out on the 1st November 2011 and I should be reading from it during my Poetry Cafe show

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A NEW COVER, SOME NEWS AND YETI RATINGS!! Hi, First up; what do you think of the cover? It's near enough what I'm hoping will be the front cover of FUNERAL FOR A SHOE... I am currently very busy with the final proofing work of this book and in my next post I may well tell you about the illustrator that I've been working with during this project... But it's all rather top secret at the moment!

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A PREVIEW OF 2012... ARE WE THERE, YETI? Hello, How are you? Feeling poetic? I do hope so! I was hoping to be announcing that my next SHY YETI ON LOCATION video would be ready this week, but it looks as if it will be delayed until next week now! I can promise you it's nearly done - it's just that I had the bright idea of adding a quick trailer for the USA series - due soon - and, of course,

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EXCITEMENT AND MAYHEM AT A FUNERAL FOR A SHOE... Hello! There's quite a lot going on at the moment; I've been busily writing short stories and poems for my next-NEXT book ARE WE THERE, YETI?, whilst putting the finishing touches to my official next collection: FUNERAL FOR A SHOE. I'm not quite sure when FUNERAL will be out - either late this year or I may hold it back until January 2012;

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A HAPPY RETURN TO THE COBALT CAFE - TUESDAY 2ND AUGUST 2011 Some of you may know - some of you may not, that I have just returned from two highly enjoyable weeks back in the States. I was over there for a couple of weeks - exploring more of L.A. with Mr Dominic McCauley (the John Steed to my Emma Peel) and also paying a trip to Portland, Oregon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon

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INTRODUCING THE NEW BOOKS - AND A SAMPLE OF SOMETHING VAMPIRIC... Hi, This post is just an excuse to post a couple of the short stories from the new THE VAMPIRE COWS OF SCUNTHORPE collection and to post some of the photos from the little party I had to launch the new books in London on Saturday 2nd July 2011. Thanks to everyone who came along!! The first story is called THE BROKEN LIFT and the

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VAMPIRE COWS AND MICE OF COMMONS!FINALLY - TWO NEW BOOKS RELEASED!! Hi! This is just a quick blog to let everyone know that as of Friday 1st July I have two new books alive and kicking and ready for you to read; one of them more relevant to this particular blog than the other - although there are poems and Mouse Of Commonsy cross-overs in both books. The first of the two books is my THE VAMPIRE

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ALL KIND OF DAFTNESSES GOING DOWN IN YETI TOWN… ;) Hi, Just to keep you up to date with a number of things that have been going on over the last couple of weeks, some of them you may know about - whilst others may be a complete surprise… In which case it might be best that you don't read this until you have taken a seat and made yourself comfortable. 1) SOUNDCLOUD… I mentioned a few posts

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AN EVENING WITH SHY YETI (AND OTHER ANIMALS…) POETRY CAFÉ, THURSDAY 16th JUNE 2011 Well, this was definitely my biggest show yet - with press releases, charity themes, videos - extra special guests and even mentions in the London press: http://londonist.com/2011/06/book-grocer-15-21-june.php In case the link eventually ceases to work we were billed as: "Paul Chandler, John Smallshaw, Gary

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AN EVENING WITH SHY YETI - AND OTHER ANIMALS.... Hello, Yes! At last... The show that I've been hinting at for a while now... It's called AN EVENING WITH SHY YETI - AND OTHER ANIMALS. I'll be hosting and reading some of my work and also, during the night we have performance poet GARY GROVES, Pantechnicon poet JOHN SMALLSHAW and superstar singing sensation, WILFREDO. It's at the Poetry Cafe on

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SHY YETI GOES SOUNDCLOUDY!!! Hi, Just a quick post to say that I have just added a profile on Soundcloud - which you can find at the following link: http://soundcloud.com/shyyeti To date I have added 3 audio poems which were recorded in 2007 and 2008 for my SHY YETI'S FINEST BREWED VERSE and PIETRY IN MOTION albums that never really got official releases, but were given away with some copies

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A SLIGHTLY-LONGER-THAN 60 SECOND CHAT WITH SHY YETI Here is an interview that I did recently with a Beargrrrian magazine called THE GROWL GAZETTE – they know me over there due to my dubious connection with a certain Beargrrrian superstar named Charlie Grrr. The interview is mostly about my new book - YETI HUGS AND OTHER HORRORS. So, here’s what they asked and what I said in reply – straight

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POETRY VIDEOS AND SOMETHING ELSE FROM THE NEW BOOK Hi, I've just loaded up the first video of my Poetry Cafe gig from the other week. It includes the poems YOUR APRIL FOOL, YOU DON'T EXIST, CAT THIEF, BAD STUFF I WISH WOULD HAPPEN TO YOU and THE MEN IN WHITE COATS ARE MY FRIENDS... It can be viewed at either: http://youtu.be/TMdn9tnz62w via Youtube or http://www.vimeo.com/22362996 on Vimeo.

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MR YETI LIVE (AGAIN) AT THE POETRY CAFE - SATURDAY 2ND APRIL 2011 Hello again! This post is going to be all about my Poetry Cafe show from last weekend - with the usual breakdown of what exactly went on and which poems that I read. I'm not sure if it was just me, but it seemed to be a quite hot evening for early April - but a few of my poems were quite fiery so that worked okay! *drip, drip,

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YETI HUGS AND OTHER HORRORS... ...IT'S LOVELY, NOT HORRIBLE AT ALL! ;) Hello, Just to let you know that YETI HUGS AND OTHER HORRORS is now out. Hoorah!!! The paperback came out on Friday (a week earlier than announced) on 25th March 2011 and the hardback emerged today! Here's some more information: YETI HUGS AND OTHER HORRORS Paul Chandler's latest collection of writing contains 55 new

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"YETI HUGS" SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED!! Hello! Just a quick trumpet blast to announce the news that my new book is pretty much up and ready and should be available to be launched at my Poetry Cafe show on Saturday 2nd April 2011. As of yesterday both a paperback and hardback edition of the book shot off to Lulu.com to be printed and if all looks well when I receive my first copy then it will be

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A YETI IN WINTER AND STUFF ABOUT BEARSOUP... Hi, I am happy to announce the arrival of A YETI IN WINTER - my latest SHY YETI ON LOCATION video. Here's some information about it: A YETI IN WINTER is a new episode of SHY YETI ON LOCATION. It was filmed between late December 2010 and January 2011 and this time it doesn't feature poems at all. However what it does feature s four 100-word stories

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RETURN TO OPEN-MIKE - BOOK LAUNCH AND THOSE "YETI HUGS" POEM TITLES... Just a quick-ish post about my second trip to The Poetry Cafe open-mike this year - on Tuesday 22nd February 2011. I also intend to list the titles from my new book and you can see the flier above for my book launch/show on Saturday April 2nd 2011. All 4 of my SHY YETI BACK IN HOLLYWOOD videos are now up on the usual YOUTUBE

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OPEN-MIKE U.K. VERSUS U.S. !!! Hello! The title of this post sounds all very grand and important; but really it's not at all… I just wanted to briefly update you about my return to reading at the Poetry Café - Poetry Unplugged open-mike evening on Tuesday 25th January 2011. It was the first time I'd been along for quite some months. I read towards the end of the first half and I think I was

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WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON IN SHY YETI LAND!?! :) Hello! Well, I did promise a review of all my writing during 2010 and I do still intend to complete that post; but it's going to take longer than expected. I thought instead that I'd like to update you with some other news about stuff that is yet to happen. Mainly as follows: 1) NEW POETRY VIDEOS There are now 3 videos from my December 2010

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A NEW POEM FOR CHRISTMAS 2010... Happy Christmas to you all! This won't be a very long post as I intend to do my review of the year once Christmas dinner has worn off; but I will just say that final proofing on the new book YETI HUGS AND OTHER HORRORS is over half-way complete and I expect the book to be ready by late January, early February. You can also hear me read a number of the new poems

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DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS? POETRY CAFÉ, COVENT GARDEN, MONDAY 22ND NOVEMBER 2010 I am glad to announce my gig at The Poetry Café this week went extremely well - despite Monday evenings not necessarily being the best night of the week for a lot of people. Those who showed up were greeted by the dubious sight of me in an inflatable Bride Of Frankenstein wig and in the second half a rain mac and panda

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MY 150TH POST: INTRODUCING "YETI HUGS AND OTHER HORRORS..." Hello and welcome!! This post is particularly important for two reasons; firstly it reveals what I hope is the final title and the cover (of the paperback version) of my next collection and secondly because it is the 150th post on this blog since I began it in 2002. Originally the new book was to have been called THE DEATH OF LOVE; I

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SHY YETI GOES TO HOLLYWOOD!!! Hi, Just to let you know that the new SHY YETI ON LOCATION video is up. It is called SHY YETI GOES TO HOLLYWOOD and the links to both the Youtube and Vimeo versions of the show are below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Ay2pMvE4k http://vimeo.com/14843474 This time on SHY YETI ON LOCATION Paul heads in search of glamour and ends up in Hollywood where this time

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SHY YETI GOES TO L.A. - VIDEO ALREADY UP - MORE TO FOLLOW... Hi, It suddenly occurred to me that I've not updated you all on my trip to L.A. I am currently working on a new episode of SHY YETI ON LOCATION (which may or may not end up as a double length episode, as I took so much footage...) However to keep you going there is already a new video up of me performing three poems at an open-mike

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"JUST TO GET MYSELF TO YOU" - A NEW POEM BEFORE A BIG JOURNEY... Hi folks, "JUST TO GET MYSELF TO YOU" is my newest poem; written today - Wednesday 4th August 2010 just before I head out to L.A. tomorrow for a few days holiday. I wrote most of it on the train back to my flat between Salisbury and Weybridge earlier this morning; writing the last 8 lines to verse 5 and 6 back at home, at around

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BOOK LAUNCH PARTY AND A NEW POEM!! Hello! Amongst other things this post is about the book launch that I held at The Princess Louise, near Holborn on Saturday 10th July 2010 - although it has to be said that it was a little bit warm for such celebrations and by about Six O'clock all I wanted to do was sleep! We were mainly celebrating the launch of my latest collection DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS?

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PAUL GOES TO L.A. AND ANOTHER POEM FROM THE NEW BOOK Hello, Just a quick post to show off some rather cool photos that were sent to me by a good friend from L.A. who bought the new book. I am sorry to say that I, myself, am yet to visit L.A. - but it is nice to see that my books get to do a bit of sightseeing in their new homes. Thank you, Dominic McCauley for taking all these photos!

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IT LIVES!!! DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS IS FINALLY AVAILABLE!! As promised, DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS is finally published and available to purchase from Lulu.com in three different formats; paperback, hardback and digital download. Here are some more details about the new book - take a peek at the links as you can see some sample pages and a number of the new poems too for free. DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS?

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FINAL VERSION OF "DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS" TO BE LOADED UP BY MONDAY NEXT WEEK... Hi, This is probably the final post before "DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS?" is available to buy - although the official release day will be Monday 31st May 2010. (A bank holiday! Yes, I know - but what better way to spend your bank holiday than by reading my new book... Okay, so I'm kidding myself - but if the weather is

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DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS - ALMOST READY NOW!!! Hi, We're entered the last stages of readying DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS for publication - I have sent off for a couple of draft copies of the finished book and once I have received my copies then I will announce the actual publication date; which I imagine will be before the end of the month. There are 55 new poems in this collection - although one or two

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ANOTHER NEW POEM FROM "DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS?" Hi, As promised - another new poem from the new collection - one new poem each week until the new book is available. Lastest news on DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS is that all the poems and comments have been proofed and I am now just going through all the extra bits at the back of the book. The way things are going the collection should be ready to go to

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"TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE" AND "THE YETI MACABRE"... As promised, I present to you here a little something more from my next book: DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS? It's called "TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE" and is more of a prose piece than a proper poem - I wrote it in Nice, last October. Work on DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS continues apace - and the book is still due to emerge in May; no exact date yet - but I

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AS PROMISED - ANOTHER NEW POEM ETC. As promised here is another new poem from the DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS collection, which is due out next month. I am also going to remind you of the two main sites where you can watch all my recent videos (and some of the old ones). YOUTUBE LINK: http://www.youtube.com/user/MRSHYYETI VIMEO LINK: http://vimeo.com/shyyeti/videos These links take you to videos

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SUTTON PARK AND A NEW POEM FROM DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS? Hi, First off  I'm going to briefly mention my spoof B-movie series, SUTTON PARK SW1 - simply because I showcase my SOUPCON OF SHY YETI book as part of the plot. This hasn't been the first mention of my poetry in the show since it came back; as it is now part of the history of the character that I play; which is a fictional version of myself.

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BECOMING MORE LIKE A CAT... Hi, Just a quick post and a new poem - it's a first draft and was only written a day or two ago and will appear in the DEATH OF LOVE collection towards the end of the year. It was inspired by a cat called Nightshade and is about how humans end up becoming more like their cats; the reverse of the old adage that cats become more human from hanging around with us people

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SHY YETI RETURNS TO THE POETRY CAFE THE SHY LIFE POETRY CAFE, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON - SATURDAY 6TH MARCH 2010 THIRD TIME LUCKY was the original title of my third poetry collection back in 2002 and this was my third show at The Poetry Cafe and my first of 2010. With my most recent book being entitled THE SHY LIFE it also allowed me to read poems both past, present and future - including some of

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TWO NEW POETRY VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE AND VIMEO Hi, Just a quick update and some links to the two new videos that I have posted this week. SHY YETI LIVE - 06/03/2010 A video from my show at the Poetry Cafe a couple of weeks back - more to follow in a day or two on this event with an indepth review of what occurred. This video includes three poems read that night: DISCO YETI, THE BALLAD OF TINY

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THAT DAFT ANIMAL RIGHTS POEM I MENTIONED ON FACEBOOK... Hello, Having mentioned this online over the weekend, I feel I should probably post it up. It won't be in my next book DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS in May 2010, but in the collection afterwards; however I will probably read it at my gig next weekend and maybe do a video for it at some stage. I hope you enjoy it! Yeti hugs, Paul xx “I’M ALL

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A NEW COMPILATION: A SOUPCON OF SHY YETI!! I've been busy over the last week or so - not only going along to open-mike nights (see previous post, also published today), but also putting together a new compilation: A SOUPCON OF SHY YETI (the cover of which is above!) The poem, CUPCAKE, which I included in my last post having read it at the open-mike night is also included in SOUPCON which is a

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RECENT VISITS TO POETRY CAFÉ OPEN-MIKE NIGHTS TUESDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2010 Having taken part in the MEDICINE MOUTH – LOVED UP show on Friday 12th February 2010 I discovered that my friend Harry was also available on the Tuesday to accompany me to The Poetry Café open-mike night, which I had not been to since late September 2009. When the show started Harry volunteered me to read at the start

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"THE MEDICINE MOUTH - LOVED UP" Date: Friday, 12 February 2010 Time: Between 21:00 and 23:00 Location: EAST BLOC,: 58 OLD STREET, London, U.K. Before I tell you how it went - let me set the scene... Host: Trevor Medicine presents "THE MEDICINE MOUTH" Once a month, Trevor Medicine invites you to join him and a handful of some of the finest poetic talent for an evening of verbal violence,

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NEW VIDEOS - UPCOMING POETRY SHOWS... Hi, Just a quick post to post a couple of links to recent videos that I've posted on both youtube and vimeo.com The first is for the 2nd part of my series SUTTON PARK SW1 - which only has a tenuous link to my poetry in that I play a poet called Paul aka Shy Yeti!! You can read more about the making of this episode at http://www.suttonpark.blogspot.com/ -

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SOME MORE VIDEOS AND AN OLD POEM REVIVED... Hi, Yes! Another blog post; I really *have* been busy in January!! It's a good start to the year; however it has put me back a little with getting DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS ready. Hopefully I'll still be on track for having copies ready for my gig on 6th March. I am pleased with how many people have been watching the videos - for both the poems and

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A NEW VIDEO ON http://www.youtube.com/ BEHIND THE SCENES SHY'S SNOW SPECTACULAR is the third in the SHY YETI ON LOCATION videos completed, so far, this year. This video includes 4 older poems - covering the last 5 or more years of my poetting - these poems were: PICNIC AT THE END OF THE WORLD, MY PAST IS CATCHING UP WITH ME, TOO SLUSHY FOR SNOWMEN and SNOW BUNNIES. Youtube link: http://

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MORE POEMS ABOUT CATS - ANOTHER GIG AND MORE VIDEOS... Hello again! Having begun to read the poem: MY SELFISH CAT on my last SHY YETI ON LOCATION video I decided it'd be nice to post it in full on the blog now it is complete. It's not actually a poem from the next book - but one which should appear in LA MORT D'AMOUR later in 2010. That said, I promise that I'll post something from DO YETI WEAR

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SOME MORE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE AND VIMEO!!!I thought I should probably announce the posting of my second SHY YETI ON LOCATION show - this one filmed in a secret location in London.SHY YETI IN A SECRET LOCATIONThis episode of SHY YETI ON LOCATION is filmed from not one, but two secret locations - and one of those is full of snow!!! This time Mr Yeti reads three poems: WE'RE GOING TO CLONE YOU, I LOVE

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MORE NEWS AND SOME OUT-TAKES...Hi,Close on the heels of my previous video: SHY YETI ON LOCATION - IN DORSET... I have now also uploaded a 5 minute video of out-takes which can be viewed at either of the following links:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdpS6i-lIL8http://www.vimeo.com/8563822I'm not sure I mentioned it and I still need to go back for a final count up - but it looks as if the final

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SHY YETI ON LOCATION...Hello and happy new year!Just a quick post really to start the year on a positive note...Whilst I was away over New Year I bought myself a new stills camera, which also has a rather good video camera attached. I've been planning on making a series of little films to be posted on vimeo and youtube this year and what follows is the pilot episode - filmed in Dorset on Sunday

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM THE DAFFY POET!!Hello...Just a quick hello and a chance to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you to everybody who has supported me this year - either by coming to my gigs, buying a book, accompanying me to open mike nights because it's scary going on my own, reading the blog or just chuckling when a read you a silly poem in person or sending me a nice

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SOME NEW COVERS AND A NEW POEM FOR CHRISTMAS...Hi,In this post I present to you a few of the potential covers that I've been working on for DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS, since I decided the original design was too dark.I think, realistically I'm actually going to use both of the white covers (one for hardback - one for paperback), but with the sparkly back cover of the YETI cover.We shall see...Anyway!

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SHY YETI PRESENTS - A PICTURE WAT I DREW AND A NEW POEM...Hi,Well - I may be able to write the odd poem or hundred; but I have never claimed to be an artist. I still don't - however I have surprised even myself by a little drawing I did this weekend using some lovely oil crayons that I bought when at an art fair in Harrogate the other week. As those of you who read my blog have seen I have begun

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SHY YETI'S SECOND FURTASTIC BOOK LAUNCH OF 2009Friday 6th November 2009Hi,As promised - a little later than planned; here are some of the photos from my last book launch, just before my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to everyone who came along - I didn't get photos of everyone, but thanks to Calum, Steve, Sean mark 1, Harry, Lucy, Calum, Gareth, Andrew, Gibson, Miles, Robert, Tom, Vinnie

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DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS? - UPDATE...Hello! Apologies for the delay in posting photos from the book launch a couple of weeks ago - the photos were taken on my flat-mate's camera and I've not been home to retrieve them since. Work on the next book is going well - I recently completed 4 more poems whilst in Krakow for my birthday and have approximately 48 poems for the next book - which means that I

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SHY YETI - KING OF POLITICS!!Hello,This is a new poem which will appear next year in my new book: DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS... It's hot off the press and we really did have a visit from a certain PM at the place where I work, today. Did I really make him do the hoovering - YES - but do you think he'll ever admit to it? No... Politicians! They're all the same! Don't worry Gordy, we love you really...

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THE SHY LIFE - LIFE IS ALWAYS CHANGING!!!As the date of THE SHY LIFE book launch rapidly approaches (it's this friday: 6th November...) I can now announce that THE SHY LIFE has put on a few pounds in weight since I first announced its birth last week...It is now 256 pages long!! I decided to add a few as there was spare paper at the back of the proof copy I received. I could have removed 2 or

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THE SHY LIFE IS RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY!!!Hi,I just thought I'd give you a little more information on the new book: THE SHY LIFE, which is now available from LULU. I'll be having a book launch party for it on Friday 6th November 2009; so expect some photos soon! :) I'm busy working on the next collection: DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS? and have, so far, completed 32 new poems. Although I will keep you up

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COUNTDOWN TO "THE SHY LIFE"Hello!It's now less than a month until my next collection "THE SHY LIFE" is to be published, although at time of writing I still have about another two weeks of frantic proofreading to complete - but if all goes to plan the final version of the book should go to Lulu by Friday 23rd October, two weeks before the book launch on Friday 6th of November 2009. Keep your paws

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MY SECOND COVENT GARDEN GIGPOETRY CAFE, WEDNESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2009, 19.00-21.00Originally scheduled for Sunday 6th September, my second Poetry Café gig of 2009 eventually took place ten days later on Wednesday the 16th of September. Due to mid-week-itus the turn out was smaller than hoped, but those who did turn up did an amazing job of making it a really fun night. I read a mixture of the old

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THE SHY LIFE, NEXT POETRY CAFE GIG AND DO YETI WEAR PYJAMAS???Hello,Just an update on the current poetic state of play in my fur-filled neck of the woods...My next gig at the Poetry Cafe is on Wednesday 16th September; be there for a glass of wine around 7 - the readings start as near to 7.15 as possible. More on that next week - but you can check my FACEBOOK group for the full details and

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BACK FROM ME EUROPEAN TOUR! ;)Hello!The wanderer returns... Not that you'll probably have noticed...At any rate, I've been away for quite a lot of August on my little European Tour and whilst I was away I was doing a lot of the proofreading of my next collection of poems: THE SHY LIFE, which is due out in November. As it stands the book will contain, at least, 50 new poems - photos from my tour,

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SHY YETI’S FIRST 2009 BOOK LAUNCHSUNDAY, 12th JULY 2009, FITZROVIAOn Sunday 12th July I held my first book launch of 2009, in both The Cock Tavern and Horse & Groom on Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia. We were launching CAVEMAN LOGIC as well as the new, finally released GOSSIP FROM THE CHEESE COUNTER collection - and also celebrating the arrival, earlier in the year of IF POEMS WERE PIES and SHY

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BUSY ON BLOGTV...As mentioned in my previous post, my new collection: CAVEMAN LOGIC is now available for £8.99 at: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/caveman-logic/5957268I am busy with my next collection and have already written over half of it. In addition to this I have been blogging on a site called BLOGTV. I do a regular half hour show on a saturday morning between about 9.30-10.00.

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CAVEMAN LOGIC!!!OUT NOW!!!Hi,This is just to announce that CAVEMAN LOGIC is OUT and available on Lulu.com at: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/caveman-logic/5957268Here's a bit more information...Description:CAVEMAN LOGIC is Paul Chandler's 2nd book of poetry during 2009; written between January and May 2009. Paul's nom-de-plume is SHY YETI and this collection clearly shows just how

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THE NEW AND THE EVEN NEWER!!!Hi,I just thought I'd update you on how things are going with CAVEMAN LOGIC, my next book of poems. I have received my first draft copy and whilst away last week up in the Hull/Beverley/Bridlington area I made amendments on the hard copy and this week I've been making the changes to the electronic version of the text. If all goes well this will be completed by early

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GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF AGAIN!!Well, I'm getting a little ahead of myself here... I'm posting you up a new poem - hot off the press, which I've only just finished writing not minutes ago... So it won't be in the next book CAVEMAN LOGIC, but probably in my collection after that, tentatively entitled: THE SHY LIFE (LICENCE TO POET...) More about the new poem in a minute - let's discuss CAVEMAN

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Hi,It won't be too long now before my next book of completely new poems is ready. I have over 60 new poems for the CAVEMAN LOGIC collection and am currently adding the finishing touches to the book and my proofreader, Dan has begun to make final corrections. Whilst away on holiday near Bury St Edmunds last week I wrote 3 new pieces and have completed a few more this week. These will be included

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MY GREATEST HITS??I've just put together a collection of some of my favourite poems, which I'm hoping will be a good introduction to my work for anyone who has never sampled one of my collections. The collection is called SHY YETI RULES O.K. and there is more information at: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/shy-yeti-rules-ok/6492096A collection of over 50 of Paul's favourite poems from

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NEWS UPDATE: MORE OPEN-MIKE AND 2 NEW BOOKS DUE BY JULY!!!I am in the process of typing the 50th poem of the next book: CAVEMAN LOGIC, which I expect to be ready by July this year. This particular poem is called I'M A MYSTERY TO HIM. It's not ready to post on here, but I intend to post a new poem at the end of this post. I am also putting together a more concise book on my poems from 1992 to

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MY FIRST COVENT GARDEN GIGPOETRY CAFE, SUNDAY 1ST MARCH 2009, 19.30-21.00I launched the new collection IF POEMS WERE PIES at my gig on sunday, by reading a selection of poems old and new. The first half was a mixture of poems that I've written in the last 10 years, a smattering of verse from all my books since 2001's JUNK/FOOD and in the second half I also read poems from IF POEMS WERE PIES and

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IF POEMS WERE PIESNOW AVAILABLE!!!Description:A freshly baked collection of poems for 2009 from Paul Chandler, including 60 new compositions and plenty of daft photos of the writer, his friends, his pets and his pies. Contains the current favourites: THE BEAR WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, CHILLI PEPPER FINGERS, THE DAGENHAM DIVA, DISGUSTING OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS, DO KITTENS DRINK CUSTARD?, HOW IS HE?, THE KING

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!Hello and welcome to 2009 - the 7th year of this blog and also the 101st post.I'm happy to announce that the new collection: IF POEMS WERE PIES... should be ready by the start of March; hopefully in time for my first gig in London. More about that soon!Anyway - the new book contains 62 new compositions and the one I'm posting here is, not only, the 62nd and final piece - but also

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A REVIEW OF NOVEMBER 2008!!THE 100TH POST OF THIS POETIC BLOG!!!Well, I've been saving this one up for a while - as I knew November would be busy and I also knew that the next thing I posted would be my 100th post on the blog since we began back in 2002. I won't be dwelling much at this stage on the past posts; however I am putting together a collection of all the poems that I've posted on this

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NEW POEM - HOT OFF THE PRESS: YOU ARE CAT-NIP TO ME...Hello! I think it is best that I point out, first of all, that there are no cats involved in this poem at all. However, I did think that I might share with you a few pictures of two random cats which I met whilst I was travelling in Spain, recently. The one above tried to nip my friend Neph, actually. But no harm was done. He's a cutey really.

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SOME MORE VIDEOS... I recorded three new poems yesterday, from my 2002/2003 compilation collection: THIRD & 4TH TIMES LUCKY and I intend to post them up on here. The first one is a piece from 2002 called GOOD HUG and you can watch it here - I'll post the other two later this week! Thanks to Kirk for his help with the recording! :)Enjoy!!! Paul x

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OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER!! NEW POEM!!Hello,I have another new poem for you all, hot off the press. I've been writing quite a few new ones this last fortnight and am currently working on some poems with the following titles: REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED..., PLANET ADMIN, I DON'T FEEL THAT KIND OF LOVE ANYMORE, MY DEAD DAD, DAZZLE THEM WITH YOUR BEAUTY, THE BALLAD OF SIR SIMON DE YETI, THE

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NEW POEM - HOT OFF THE PRESS!!Hi,This is a new poem, just finished today - and only really a first draft and will hopefully appear in my next full collection in 2009, tentatively entitled PIE-TRY IN MOTION. It's a bit like a Guy Ritchie film. In rhyme. Actually, it's probably nothing like one at all - but it is about revenge. Best served cold, of course - rather like certain tasty pies, as it

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THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOK LAUNCH PARTIES - 2008Location: Fitzroy Tavern, London and Royal Vauxhall Tavern, LondonDate: Friday 5th and Saturday 6th September 2008Well! It happened - on the 5th and 6th September 2008, I finally had the launch party for my most recent two Mouse of Commons books: GLADSTONE MCWHISKERS THROWS IT ALL AWAY and THE FURTHER SQUEAKS OF GLADSTONE MCWHISKERS. More importantly

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WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO WITH ME POEMS...Hello,I've been a very bad poet and not updated the blog in a little while and also - I've failed to mention that I did actually record those new poems that I threatened to record about a month or so ago for the www.vimeo.com/shyyeti site. In the end I recorded:PICCADILLY CIRCUSRECKLESSLY CRASHTESTBOYFRIENDTHEY WARNED ME ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE YOUI AM NEVER INVITED

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