Tue 17th Jul 2018 07:53
<Deleted User> (19836)
Tue 17th Jul 2018 07:48
Hi there WOL staff,
Write Out Loud is a free poetry resource run by a group of volunteers. We should never forget that. I've said it before, but I tip my hat to all of you! So, thanks again for all your work.
Cheers,
Suki
Comment is about Are You Content with Write Out Loud's Content? (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Thank you for all the comments. Brian, for me the part about the kids comes from the experience of seeing the local football coach literally swear at the kids on the pitch at our local gym. Our son is begging to join the football club, and his father is refusing categorically because he doesn't want him to enter that world. It's sad really. Maybe it's a local phenomenon - maybe the teams in England are much more respectful, I don't know.
The other part is inspired the campaign by the National Center for Domestic Violence during the World Cup. Not sure I have the right to repost the picture, it was circulating on Facebook a few days ago.
Comment is about The beautiful game (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
I don't like people who hide behind masks, won't identify themselves then proceed to direct incorrect and vindictive remarks at me in public. I refuse to be treated in this way. Sorry
Comment is about Never Mess Round With a Rhymer Joyti (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
i think i would love anything written by you
Comment is about Flatiron District (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Racha,
I have often experienced what you describe in this poem. Beautifully written.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about the trap (blog)
Original item by racha
Congratulations on being POW. I always enjoy all your work, so was glad to see you being granted this accolade.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about ‘Bye bye blackbird’ by Ray Pool is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
A poem of real profundity. I am becoming a fan.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about New eyes (blog)
Original item by racha
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 21:00
Football, a beautiful and emotion making game.
Enjoyed reading this.
Hannah
Comment is about The beautiful game (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 20:58
Love this poem.
I noticed today the tree outside my window has already got a few Autumn golden leaves.
We need rain.
Hannah
Comment is about Rain (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 20:51
Well done Ray.
I loved this poem first time I read it.
So well deserved to be POTW.
Hannah
Comment is about ‘Bye bye blackbird’ by Ray Pool is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 20:47
lovely poem Racha. Thanks for sharing. Colin.
Comment is about New eyes (blog)
Original item by racha
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 20:46
Inspirational. One from the heart.
Life's still life,
Seeds of hope.
Hannah
Comment is about Get up and Gone (blog)
Original item by mike booth
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 20:44
This is fantastic, a great poem.
I love the idea of this lady.
Would like a speaking fridge too.
Hannah
Comment is about Hi Tech Granny (blog)
Original item by mike booth
Hi Becky, as Brian says it resonates.
Good poem.
Tommy
Comment is about The beautiful game (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
thank you so much shalom i think that really
Comment is about New eyes (blog)
Original item by racha
hi racha thank you very much for an inspiring poem finding ourselves is key
Comment is about New eyes (blog)
Original item by racha
This is beautiful not only in your choice of words and phrasing but the simplicity of using just a few words to express what you want to say and touch others. Fabulous Ray.
Many hearty congratulations
Martin
Comment is about ‘Bye bye blackbird’ by Ray Pool is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 17:17
That is a fantastic poem Becky. The kids football scenarios resonate particularly with me as I ran a boys team about 20 years ago. I didn't scream at the kids but I had my work cut out stopping the parents doing so, coaching from the touchlines etc. And yes we had parents fighting with those from another team. I fell out with half of our parents.
My love of football was lost shortly after mostly due to the antics of professional footballers. I'm a rugby man now...much more civilised. And tennis.
Wel done Becky.
Comment is about The beautiful game (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
It's always the time of the white middle-class male. It's only in the last decade or so that anthologies of contemporary poetry have been roughly equal male & female. Black poets were notable more by absence than presence. LGBT were either absent or in the closet.
And I'm sorry you're such a snowflake you can't reality in poetry.
Comment is about Addressing The Poetry Periphery (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Oh! Steven, I don't think I've said any of the subjects mentioned shouldn't be written about, have I? Whether or not I'm fed up with reading them is my choice.
Anyway concerning trends, perhaps it's the turn of the white, middle-class male again, everybody else seems to have already had a good go. What then?
Comment is about Addressing The Poetry Periphery (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Ray
I write what and how I want to. I hold my keys. If others want to follow me and like my style fine. If not. Still fine. Each to his own.
Don
Comment is about We Have a Brain in our Bum (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Still no comment about whether you"ve actually read any of them. And Graham - what the heck are you talking about? What the heck do you think poetry should be about if it doesn't actually tackle real life as lived by real people? Flowers? The beauty of angels? The privalige of being white, middle-class and male. Get thee to a bookshop and stop talking shite.
Comment is about Addressing The Poetry Periphery (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Don, you have put together something of interest - if you can rise above the temptations of a quick comedy jerk off as in this poem I think you have widened your scope - never mind the flippant comments; I am trying to be serious!
Ray
Comment is about We Have a Brain in our Bum (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 16:09
Well done Ray. Just arrived home after a weekend away and what better news to read than this. Super little poem. All the best, Col.
Comment is about ‘Bye bye blackbird’ by Ray Pool is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Compelling stuff Jon. Travelling at night can be a great thrill - cat's eyes and the excitement for kids craning their heads round, secure with parents. As a lifelong musician driving through the night I was always entranced as well as hypnotised.
Nice one. Ray
Comment is about Ghostly Way (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
I like the idea of Ascension as being a state of mind or spirit, but you have made it corporeal, which overlays the surreal, and becomes something entirely different, a floaty imaginative scary exodus from safety. Great writing and once on board, what can we do but hope for redemption from the whirligig. Deeply ironical as ever. I hope one day someone will transcribe your poems onto canvas - I would want them all.
Ray
Comment is about Ascension To Prophecy (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
Thank you Nicola Hulme, I really appreciate it. I'm rather new to all this...
Comment is about Becky Who (poet profile)
Original item by Becky Who
This is lovely - I can see my kids' drawings as I read!
Comment is about Crayon Clouds (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Plainly, even with its seemingly current vogue, the poetry book genre isn’t within a mile of being regarded as mainstream so publishers are bound to be very hamstrung with finances and therefore rather selective.
Personally, I am getting rather weary with what feels like an incessant deluge of award-winning “how I escaped persecution and certain death under a tyrannical regime” style of work from a wide range of sources, however valuable and creditable the work appears to be.
Similarly, the LGBTQ (I hope I haven’t missed any out) genre seems to be well represented as does the more recent plethora of what I can only inadequately and collectively call Women’s issues.
With all these widely differing angles, with which to approach poetry, notwithstanding the occasional bubbling up of the political and social outrage rant stuff, it is difficult to understand how publishers even start to apportion their budgets. And what hope for the “I wandered lonely as a cloud” brigade?
All said, the ability to get read (either via a blog site like WOL, a self-published pamphlet or a relatively inexpensive e-book on kindle etc) remains a potent force in many people. The cost of self-publishing may be within the grasp of some but appears to be firmly seated for those in the performance poetry sector, where copies can be sold following a gig for example.
Crowd-funding is a growing pursuit and must surely be a good route to get a paper copy poetry book published with the benefit of being able to re-pay those who initially assisted with a free copy.
To summarise, we do always seem to experience trends or waves of a certain style or type of media. What’s hot today is chopped liver tomorrow etc, fashions change, budgets expand and tighten. The good thing is, using WOL as a measure, there seems to be plenty of people who still want to get their words out there.
Comment is about Addressing The Poetry Periphery (article)
Original item by Mike Took
<Deleted User> (19836)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 14:07
Such imaginings are a precious part of childhood,
Thank you for this.
Keith
Comment is about Ghostly Way (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (19836)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 13:30
This is a very interesting and balanced thread thus far and there is no need for personal invective (edited). I was in the process of entering the fray myself, TBC.
Comment is about Addressing The Poetry Periphery (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Notwithstanding the closing abuse, and the continued
mis-spelling of "privileged" employed, the point is that help
is first of all to be expected from those with common interest in the work on offer. It is all very well sounding off
in pious outrage at what is perceived as neglect from
publishers but virtue alone is not a commodity that the
market place can afford...cheap though it is to express.
From a personal standpoint, I have contributed financially
to poetry without there being any categories commended
or considered and I wonder if the same can be said of you
- and in particular in this respect. Conviction carries its
cost in real terms when putting a case forward and hot air
is not commercially acceptable.
Comment is about Addressing The Poetry Periphery (article)
Original item by Mike Took
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 12:40
Matt - I like the rhyming pattern throughout.
Comment is about More (blog)
Original item by Matt Tyldesley
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 16th Jul 2018 12:36
Dunno about brain Don but people often talk out of their arse. (Not you of course!)
Comment is about We Have a Brain in our Bum (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Here is a link for the report. Don't know if it will work
https://neurosciencenews.com/neurons-digestive-system-9172/
Hey yes it does
Comment is about We Have a Brain in our Bum (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Anya is also now proud of her bum -when she realised this was a serious scientific report.
Brian's cycling around the far-flung isle still, looking for Gina
Maybe he's too distracted to go looking for his bum and it's neuron hum. Need to give him a nudge this direction. Can't have him getting waylaid by Tina's sister. Gosh, he'd end up a mental wreck
Comment is about We Have a Brain in our Bum (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (13762)
Tue 17th Jul 2018 08:26
love the third verse Damon. Col.
Comment is about Happy Ending (lyrics this is a song) (blog)
Original item by Damon Blackery