Haiti Earthquake Appeal

[bernievarilone]

Dear fellow cyclist

I would like to enlist your support to raise money for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

1. I am putting together a booklet of poems to sell to raise funds for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. Contributions of poems will be welcome from all. Please can I have them BY Friday 29th January (e-mailed to me but PLEASE NOTE ONLY USE MY SCHOOL E-MAIL FOR THIS PROJECT. variloneb@st-crispins.wokingham.sch.uk.
If they come in after the 29th they may still get in depending on when the final deadline is set up for the printers or they may go into volume 2!
They must be original and be free of any copyright restrictions. i.e. the copyright is the authors and seen as a donation to the book.

Serious or funny, rhyming or not, Iambic pentameters and even Limericks accepted as long as they are original! You may think what has this got to do with cycling? Well now is your chance to get cycling on the map in a literary form! There are lots of poems coming in but not one about cycling yet! They can be on any other subject also.

2. I will then seek to have them printed and sell them as quickly as possible. If you would like to buy one yourself excellent. If you would like to go one step further and sell a few to friends and family and work colleagues, even better.

If anyone has any connections on the printing front who would like to sponsor the printing that would be bloomin' marvelous! (Spot the horticultural pun!) If not Unique Gardens may be sponsoring this one!

Thank you for your support in this. All funds raised will go to the Haiti Earthquake appeal. I have received the blessing of the area rep for Oxfam so sales will be through their shops, locally to start with. You never know, if you want to, you might even get to perform by reading your poem to an audience locally.

Thank you in advance for any support given.

Regards Bernadette