videos of some of the sisters' singing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr7GJiL_mec&feature=youtu.be
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIET-kBdeoA
Comment is about Performance poet Kate Tempest takes Ted Hughes award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Tue 11th Oct 2016 21:53
all,so very true.Thank you Connie.Jemima.
Comment is about Trust is an illusion (blog)
Original item by Connie Walter
Appreciate it. It's nice getting feed back instead of strange looks from friends.
Comment is about Casa de Gato (blog)
Original item by z
I find it intriguing that the word "agenda" is used in this
accusative sense but moving on, it is eminently logical
that movement is to be linked with origins. The move by
the English towards what became the US Colonies was
impelled by their origins and the unsatisfactory/unhappy
circumstances surrounding the same. This can certainly
be linked with the movement of others around the globe
before and since.
As for the observation about "this government's
obsession with immigration", it would be more accurate to quantify this in relation to numbers not movement itself.
Every country has the right to determine who seeks to
make a home within its borders for a variety of reasons
which appear universal across the world throughout history. How safe and how secure can a house be when it throws open its doors to all and sundry. Common sense alone provides the answer. Let the movers write
of their experiences and let them be set alongside those
from separate more stationary sources for the enjoyment and information of us all.
Comment is about Measures of Expatriation: Vahni Capildeo, Carcanet (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Anna, I think Graham has summed it up better than I could. Congratulations on winning POTW.
Comment is about 'Pavement Cafe' by Anna Ghislena is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you Sir Internet was not functioning well in my country lately due to some political problem
It is today,Oct 11, I managed to open my blog and read the enthusing feedback you gave me.It will certainly lend power to my pen.
Comment is about Breaking the double yoke (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
David, as ever you have added poetic thoughts I like that! An amusing response and I kept mine short to allow for naughty thoughts!
Stu how right you are. Non PC of course. I could extend it Noah's Ark , how about it?
Thanks both.
Comment is about WATERWISH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Superbly conceived with all the grand guignol details and as Stu says comes right up to date with the less subtle stage craft of these idiots.
I'm just about to put my own take into a poem on the site -beware !!
Ray
Comment is about Eater Of Worlds (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
You have angel wings
snowy white hat with
red painted toe nails
personality of such affection
making me feel fantasticooooo
every time we meet x
Comment is about Elizabeth Faitarone (poet profile)
Original item by Elizabeth Faitarone
good to see you onboard here, Liz.
Love Angel of the Sea. one of my favourite poems of yours.
Comment is about Elizabeth Faitarone (poet profile)
Original item by Elizabeth Faitarone
I like 'Paranoia Lies', brutal and true, and well put.
Welcome to WOL, Arianna. We do like to add comments if we feel we are welcome to do so.
Comment is about z (poet profile)
Original item by z
Terrific. It's like two completely different poems, conjoined but not conflicting.
Comment is about Casa de Gato (blog)
Original item by z
Thanks Stu & David for your supportive & constructive comments ?
Comment is about October 10 (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Apropos of my comment on Mechanism, Stu, my computer has been for a clean up from malware ( a sort of haemorrhoids of the jacksie(pain in the ass). Thanks for asking. Hope you are ok . I'm revving up for getting my poetry out in the wider world at the moment !
Regards Ray
Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Cheers, Julian. Yes, had it not been getting dark when I arrived at Sat teatime, a brisk walk up to Pule Hill would have been just the thing, after my five-hour drive from Winchester. Would have cleared the cobwebs, and been good for my knees. Ah, well. Next time, indeed.
Comment is about 'Giving something back to the landscape, whether it wanted it or not' - Simon Armitage on the Stanza Stones (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I'm not sure which review your reading, but it's not the one I wrote. Apart from the phrase 'different feelings' I don't talk about 'difference' at all. As the subject of the book generally is expatriation, I expect it comes into the book; but if it's celebrating anything, it's celebrating movement not 'origins'.
Methinks you're reading your own agenda into the review.
Comment is about Measures of Expatriation: Vahni Capildeo, Carcanet (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
wonderful sentiments, Corey, well expressed.?
Comment is about A Message of Hope (blog)
Original item by Corey Webster
A grand review, Greg, Write Out Loud's peripatetic poetry reporter par excellence. You were in Marsden later that same day and we never got you up to Pule Hill to see the stone. Next time. Or perhaps we should organise to do the whole trail.
Comment is about 'Giving something back to the landscape, whether it wanted it or not' - Simon Armitage on the Stanza Stones (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Cheers Ray and Tony, many thanks!
Comment is about The World's First Hypertext (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
i think this is excellent and a very fitting ode to poets everywhere. especially love the mathematics line, made me think, chuckle and accept your point of view all in a few words.
Comment is about Poets (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
sid james would be perfect for orating this dirty little ditty. carry on rowing...
Comment is about WATERWISH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
lovely images and, like the previous poem i commented on, so much is said in so few words. i could read these types of short, sweet pieces all day
Comment is about Casa de Gato (blog)
Original item by z
elPintor
Tue 11th Oct 2016 00:30
Hey there, Ray and David,
..a little hair of the dog that bit, here, in a manner of speaking. This came almost ready-made in the middle of the night..not much forethought, but then I couldn't sleep and think maybe there's a reason for such ideas coming without premeditation.
Thanks, to the both of you.
elP
Comment is about grape preserves (blog)
Original item by nunya
loved this ian. im having to escort my housemate to the shop and back currently as he is terrified of clowns. frankly, if i see one of the pricks, i will knock shades out of him.
i feel your poem is slightly more eloquent.
sorry i couldnt come to pieland this time, i had completely forgot it was my daughters birthday that weekend (classy!)
edit - the poem itself is fab. i love the way you have linked the old noble tradition of clowning to the crass, modern affair we currently have using the old fashioned names and descriptions. clever.
tears of a clown indeed.
Comment is about Eater Of Worlds (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
i very much enjoy haiku, they are how i started writing poetry and i have had several published in various publications. for me, and this is just a personal opinion, i prefer the ones that transcend mere description and become ethereal and worldly. so here, i would opt for two and three, as the final lines of both transport the piece to a place where i feel i am happy with the whole piece but i have to work to provide an image in my head overall. i have commented before on your work, and i think i said pretty much the same thing.
the very best book i own on the subject is basho's complete haiku. its every haiku the man ever wrote, in both japanese and english form. its a wonderful tome
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Basho-Complete-Haiku-Matsuo/dp/1568365373
again these are just my own opinions, i would never call myself an expert on the haiku, far from it, but i do enjoy the form very much.
Comment is about Haiku Collection #10 (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.'
Comment is about October 10 (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
cheers ray, i had a very clear vision when i wrote this so im glad that came across. glad to have you back from wherever you have been.
Comment is about mechanism (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Nigel, it was great to have you participate at the poetry jam. Thank you for your excellent contribution.
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Your ever eloquent sculptured form here elP' Just wonderful and like an exotic painting. I think David has done the work in the analysis. A perfect combination.
Ray
Comment is about grape preserves (blog)
Original item by nunya
Great stuff Stu. I love the expanse of your mind and how it settles on these exquisite and unsettling images. It's no use me trying to analyse your work as it would not suffice to do it justice. There is a sense of taking trouble to bring about mischief - quite compelling and rather erotic in its way.
Ray
Comment is about mechanism (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Nice work M.C. - Definitely on the right track.
Comment is about WATCHING TRAINS GO BY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hi David - I am a support worker in Mental Health. Thanks for your supportive comment. Tom ?
Comment is about October 10 (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
De' Ja 'Vu is the theme for tonight!
Jazzy Marsden
Virgin Poet
arrives at
poetry jam.
Open mic
Railway pub
welcome crowd.
Ale flowed
singing, dancing
rocking good.
Went home
head verse
feeling rhyme.
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
JC - it's true that there is a absence of railway poems
from women. However, their presence with their kids at
steam train gatherings is encouraging. Perhaps it is the
prevalence of men designing and building these great
works that chimes with the male sensibility and obtains
lines from the likes of yours truly.
TH - thanks. Beeching was a product of his time, with the
existence of a transport minister
who was a construction boss keen on mega-highways, busy
pushing for more of the same as the public became more
affluent and thus more mobile and keen to get a personal
conveyance above and beyond two wheels. We live with
the results!
Comment is about WATCHING TRAINS GO BY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
You hooked me with 'squid squadron infusion' and I never wriggled off the line thereafter. Absolutely enjoyed this torrent of superb words developing their acute observations from start to finish. 'Egg sandwich Nazi' idea is hilariously chilling, and superbly constructed.
Is 'sext' a sex-message? I'm so not 'with it' in the latest lingo. Clue me in, because I'm just guessing.
I wonder what kind of job fulfils your scope of observation and imagination, and knowledge.
CBT
Comment is about The Transcendentalist (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
Why oh why didn't he just recite it as a poem. the key change is toe-curling!
Comment is about 'No one knew he could sing!': John Cooper Clarke takes on Macarthur Park and other pop classics (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I'm glad this poem isn't too long. It is its brevity and lack of depth that makes it so cutting and correct.
Watching people from the vantage point of a beggar, short-lived images, snapshots, instant character assessments, watermark the poem.
I love the potential of a briefcase full of ambition, and the daily anticipation of seeing the pretty girl.
But it is the woefully aching "are my children all grown up now" that catches one's throat.
Once again a VERY worthy winner of POTW
Comment is about 'Pavement Cafe' by Anna Ghislena is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Bang on Cynthia ? Bravo and hurrah ? You have nailed us with these lines, absolutely.
Comment is about Poets (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thanks, Harry. Enjoy your hols. (Have you let the nurses know you're going?)
Comment is about BIGGER GULPS OF AIR (TAX AVOIDANCE FOR OTHERS) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
John,
Just before I toddle off on (another) short holiday.
ME TOO!
(I like that capitalization and exclamation mark)
Comment is about BIGGER GULPS OF AIR (TAX AVOIDANCE FOR OTHERS) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
There is a pull about steam trains for our generation. Yet strangely it is almost exclusively a man thing.
I can feel the rhythm of the engine, MC.
Comment is about WATCHING TRAINS GO BY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
A very fine and delicate use of words to convey an esoteric idea Suki. "Inked with light" is splendid. The butterfly reminds one of a duality of image.
Ray
Comment is about The World's First Hypertext (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
You can find more of my poems on this site. You can also access poems and videos on line by searching on DAVID SUBACCHI POET.
Comment is about ALEPPO (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
But we take advantage if and when we can, MC.
Comment is about BIGGER GULPS OF AIR (TAX AVOIDANCE FOR OTHERS) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks Colin for commenting. The problem with a tale like this is it can raise (or lower) expectations of an outcome. Bouncing balls could be the Dambusters, but just an image in fact. I have altered that line ; I wasn't quite happy with it either. Nice to have you in Blighty again!
Thanks David for your thoughts. Yes, the message theme was intended as you mentioned. I think my ending to this was just a sudden inspiration , but I think the attraction for the radio ham was always the undiscovered , and also the community aspect though invisible. I very much take your points and agree totally.
A perceptive take as always.
Comment is about MORSE CODE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Very apt to keep in mind National Poetry Day.
Insights and outlets
Go hand in hand
With poets striving
To string a strand.
Comment is about Poets (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Taxing thoughts...that richer folk can employ people to
help them avoid (not "evade" of course) paying tax whilst
others rely on limited government schemes like ISAs to
tot up some savings.
Comment is about BIGGER GULPS OF AIR (TAX AVOIDANCE FOR OTHERS) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
raypool
Tue 11th Oct 2016 22:59
As for me I would box his ears and give him a trouncing don't you know, albeit within sight of the Johnny Rossers. Then read them the riot act, what!!
Thanks David for your well sprung support.
Ray
Comment is about SPRING - HEELED JACK (blog)
Original item by ray pool