May was a good month for poetry, though dominated to some extent by the Pandora project.  As usual, a few controversial poems, a few controversial poets, the occasional fistycuffs in discussion -but nothing I'll waste time raking over.  Out of 440 poems posted, just 29 poems were selected – so well done everyone who made the list!

 

The new voting system, where everyone is allowed 5 nominations, seems to have been popular, with more people taking part.  Let’s just hope that follows through to the final vote!  Please could you let me have your one vote by Saturday evening – I’ll announce the winner on Sunday. My email address is farmoorgirl@yahoo.co.uk

 

The nominations, in no  particular order, are as follows:-

 

Bad Faith            Ray Miller  ‘For its sheer cleverness and invention. No patience with 

                                                       patients.’

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10626

 

Play Me              Chris Dawson ‘- Rodrigo meets "91/2 Weeks. (The DVD's even better

                                                               I hear.)’

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10623

 

I Wrote A Line (with apologies to Johnny Cash)   Dave Carr    (Incorrect - he wrote

                                                             several - all good! Come to think of it , wasn't that a           

                                                            "Fine Young Cannibal" track?)

Pandora’s Box                                Dave Carr

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10492

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10651

 

Quicksand            Emma Robinson  - Good girl seeks bad guy (why is it always the bad

                                                                  guys?) - for great poem.

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10563

 

Oh! Me fuckin’ ed!     Stefan Wilde   Erudition, penetrating insight, surreal, slightly

                                                                 disturbing. The elegant, stark, simplicity of the title

                                                                 says it all.

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10365

 

She’s So Sick                             Gemma Lee

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10266

 

Visiting Neil                        Anthony Emmerson

Social                                   Anthony Emmerson

Yukon Tale                          Anthony Emmerson

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10640

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10386 http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10530

 

Cells                                     Olga Gerke

How Much of Death            Olga Gerke

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10195

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10168

 

Better the Devil You Know    Rachel Bond

Pandora’s Box                        Rachel Bond

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10588

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10575

 

Pandora’s Box                    Cate

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10524

 

Pandora’s Box                     Kath Hewitt

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10603

 

Pandora’s Box                    John Togher

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10665

 

Hour of the Critic               Marianne Daniels

Pandora’s Box                    Marianne Daniels

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10628

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10516

 

Love’s Cooling Light        Tommy Carrol

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10316

 

Make me a Child             Peter Crompton

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10226

 

Damned Chemistry           Nash

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10374

 

The Poetess                      Ann Foxglove

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10633

 

He Was One of Us           Anthony Owen

They Said                         Anthony Owen

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10643

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10224

 

Borderline                        Hilary Walker

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10446

 

Invasion of the Gnomes   Paul Blackburn

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10568

 

11 am                              Banksy

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10270