The Wild & Fabulous
Spring Sale & Exclusive Print Prize Draw
Buy a calendar between now and 31st April and you will not only get it for an egg smashing price of £10, INCLUDING POSTAGE but you will also be entered into a Grand Prize Draw*.
One lucky person will win a signed limited edition print of Graham Eccles, our very own Wild Times muse and erstwhile Penny Farthing Postie. The print, shot by photographer Donna-Lisa Healy at the Naked Muse shoot in the Lake District last year, features the lovely Mister Eccles hitching on the scenic route of Surprise View. Apparently, the ramblers who walked around the corner after the shot was taken received more of a Surprise View than they were expecting!
BUT there is a catch…
* We will only run the prize draw if we get more than 250 sales by 31st April. So…please share this info, get your friends and family and strangers to buy a calendar, or buy a bunch yourself and have your name entered more than once!
Remember - the calendar is a limited edition artwork, never to be repeated. For £10 you get 15 fantastic poems by poets such as Pascale Petit, Eva Salzman, Clare Pollard and Wendy Cope, plus the beautiful poem penned especially for Django by David Morley. You also get 14 fantastic nude portraits of 14 of the loveliest UK male poets you could ask to meet, shot by world famous women photographers that represent some of the best working in the UK today - including Annabel Williams, Tamara Peel, Leonie Hampton, Charlotte Medlicott and Lydia Goldblatt.
It may be April, but with 14 months to choose from, plus the cover, you still get plenty for your pounds, and each month is delicately perforated to be removed and framed if you so desire.
Plus, you get to help us in our important project to raise awareness about Type One Diabetes and funds for the vital work of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
All profits will go to the charity to support research into a cure for Type One Diabetes.
So what are you waiting for? Buy your copy HERE and have a chance of winning the famous Penny Farthing Postie for yourself.
And if we sell all remaining calendars by 31st April, he will pen the winner a poem too (and if you live in the Bude area, he'll even deliver it for you on his Penny Farthing).
The Naked Muse 2012
43 Photographers and Poets Unite in Unique Charity Project
What do poetry, nude male poets, creative women and Type One Diabetes have in common?
Answer: The Naked Muse 2012.
Faced with a two year old son diagnosed with Type One Diabetes, mother, poet and Wild Women Press founder, Victoria Bennett decided to take creative action.
As a starting point, Victoria contacted selected women poets and photographers across the UK with an unusual request: would they collaborate in the creation of a nude calendar and exhibition exploring the male muse and female creator, in aid of Type One Diabetes research? She then contacted 14 UK male poets whose work she regarded as quality and whom she regarded as ‘possessing a sense of beauty” and asked them if they would be willing to pose nude for the photographers. What followed was a year long project, bringing together the 27 UK based women poets and photographers, along with the 16 UK male poets, in a unique project. As inspiration, the male “muses” and female photographers were given a poem to work from on the theme of ‘the male muse’, contributed by the 14 UK female poets.
The poems feature alongside the 14 nude portraits in the final Naked Muse 2012 Calendar. It also includes "A Naked Poetry", written by the poet David Morley for Django, about living with Type One Diabetes.
Top 10 Best Calendars of 2012 by The Independent
Top 50 Gifts (2011) by Creative Times
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... I loved the way Julie had interpreted my poem and I felt a bit tearful when I thought that I had made a piece of art that inspired someone else to make another piece of art...
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...even though the park just had a few dog walkers and we had no intentions of ‘causing offence’...the park keepers were not too impressed with the public nudity and two warnings later, eventually asked us to leave...
...it was a really interesting idea - to invert the typical female muse and turn that around onto male poets and also to explore collaboratively the synergy between poetry and image...
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Poetry has always taught us that anything can be beautiful, the most ordinary thing is worthy of celebration. The same is true of flesh, of bodies; the same is true of us.
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... It’s a good cause. I like the word ‘wild’ and the idea of male poets not female on calendar...
... He sits there in the shifting shadows and it is a lovely moment, that moment in a location when subject and environment are so at peace they seem made for one another...
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I did wonder if the likes of Wordsworth would do what I was doing if they had grown up in the modern world. Coleridge may have, if he was wasted enough, Byron definitely, without being wasted, but would Wordsworth?....
... the body is home, and it is hugely important to enjoy being human...
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Much of the Prelude apparently was shaped up on these walks along the steep and undulating heavily wooded paths. Claire came back intrigued. Though we didn’t know of the Prelude link at that point, I was soon hooked too. Especially when we took a quick recce in the gloaming, and saw the possibilities.
... It occurs to me that, when naked, there is little for it but simply to be...
Poet Owen Sheers bares all for Diabetes Research 43 UK Poets and Photographers unite for unique charity project
January, 2012: Best-selling novelist, poet, playwright and TV presenter Owen Sheers has joined with 42 other UK based poets and photographers in a unique exhibition to raise funds for much needed research into Type One Diabetes. The Naked Muse “Unveiled” exhibition is curated by Victoria Bennett, and features single issue and limited edition nude studies of the 14 male poets featured in the Naked Muse 2012 charity calendar. Featuring as a Guest Muse in the exhibition, Owen Sheers bares all in a single issue photograph, shot by project photographer Charlotte Medlicott. The print is the only one in existence and there are no negatives or digital copies held.
Everyone involved in this project is doing so for free.
Every penny we raise in sponsorship and support will enable us to give more to JDRF.
Help us help them by donating to our project. It all helps so please...use the donate button above and give what you can.
All support will be acknowledged on the website.