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		<title>returning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a painful transition: registrar to consultant, new work place, new house, new town, new church.
I am just coming up for air.
I am starting to breath poetry again,
and
it feels right.
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		<title>Cleave poem: In memoriam Saigon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



The setting sun penetrates    my skin
like the memories of Kieu


branding it a deeper    hue than
under a heavy moon,


the poems
the shadows of relatives are


buried by tyrants
lost ghosts, veiled faces


empty of all but curses
as grey as tombstones,


not like me with all    my
wailing, with


tattered oriental
flags of mourning,


patterns, messages,
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		<title>Cleave Poetry Article</title>
		<link>http://ptdiep.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/cleave-poetry-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleave poetry
Cleave poetry is who I am. A dichotomy. I am a Vietnamese boat person, a refugee in England. I am a doctor yet I see death everyday. I am a poet and an artist. I believe there is truth beyond what can be scientifically proven. Cleave poetry is a concept, a poetic form, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=543&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up for air</title>
		<link>http://ptdiep.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/coming-up-for-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day job has been moving furiously forward. I went to an interview for a Consultant Histopathologist job last Friday and got it.
I can take a breath or two before the hard work starts &#8211; moving house and city, starting a new job with huge responsibilities and which is by all estimations madly busy.
Hopefully poetry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=541&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry reading at The Late Shift Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ptdiep</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have come back from the Late Shift Refugee week special (at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) where I read 5 of my poems &#8211; 2 specifically about Vietnam. We didn&#8217;t have much time after my reading as I was there with my family.
Also, [here] is a link to an article about me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=537&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Refugee Week (Norfolk)</title>
		<link>http://ptdiep.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/refugee-week-norfolk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[15-21/06/2009 Refugee Week (Norfolk)

I should be here during the week:

(Sun 7th June) Refugee Week on Future Radio. I was on air in The Platform show (5-6pm), and possibly the next Sunday 14th.
Wed 17th June Late Shift Refugee Week Special. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA. (5-8pm, more specific time later)
Sat 20th June Living Library (I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=527&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview by Stash Kirkbride for Future Radio</title>
		<link>http://ptdiep.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/interview-by-stash-kirkbride-for-future-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed by Stash Kirkbride from Future Radio today, we discussed cleave poetry and my being a refugee. This is for the lead up to The Refugee Week in Norwich.
The interview including some of my cleave poems will go out on The Platform Show, Sunday, 5-6pm (7th June and possibly the next Sunday).
I will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=520&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The state of poetry?</title>
		<link>http://ptdiep.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-state-of-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 22:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are 2 quotes that I think are true of the state of poetry and how we should approach it.

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by SW Bauer
pp341-342
In 1983, Philip Larkin, reflecting on the growing abstruseness of &#8220;academic&#8221; poetry, remarked that poets &#8211; thanks, in part, to the impossibility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=508&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest read is Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. The concept is brilliant &#8211; a highly efficient way of thinking. It helps demystify the creative myth further.
&#8220;I am often asked whether creativity is a matter of skill, talent or personality. The correct answer is that it can be all three. But I do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=494&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Premieres and poetry</title>
		<link>http://ptdiep.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/back-from-premieres-and-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:
Here are youtube videos of the poetry &#38; music



The Premieres &#38; Poetry event went very well yesterday. Thanks to the friends who came to support me.
A video of the event will come out later, but for now, here is my part:
My reading of the cleave poem &#8220;Migration&#8221; and performing of &#8220;Rendezvous under a Saigon sunset&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptdiep.wordpress.com&blog=4391512&post=491&subd=ptdiep&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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