Dorinda

There is no submission form. You need to pay the submission fee via the competition's Paypal account and email your poems to the email address given. You will probably need to create a Paypal account.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Lol - from my experience, you get a more attentive audience if you're semi-clad ;) x

Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)

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Hello there Nigel! Thanks for your comment in your unique style : )))

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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Thank you Isobel! One day I might be brave enough to do some readings too (fully clothed of course...)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello everyone! - I could do with some help, please! - tried to enter the Women's Anthology comp entitled "Furies" (shown on Write Out Loud site), but all I could find was the bit for payment - could not find a submissions form! I was quite disappointed as I had tailored two entries specifically for this comp! If any of you 'hi-tech guys' can help, I'd be very grateful!
Yours in puzzlement........Dorinda x
ps: do be patient with me: I will be 70 this year - senility gallops on at an alarming rate!
D x

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Hi Helen. I'm pretty new to this site but I'd like to say how much I enjoy your work.

"And who
is banging her hooves together?
Like windchimes
in dirty light

who lops the brick,
startles the foals? –
scattering stars around a farmhouse."

This particular passage creates such a great mind visual.

Keep up the good work!

HC x

Comment is about Helen Calcutt (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting again, Laura. I suppose the follow-up to in and out should be 'shake it all about', but I think I'll pass on that.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment Laura. The encouragement was all that was needed for a follow-up.

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Thanks Harry - the whole thing rests on the idea of liminality. There was a moment when she was walking away into her new place, waving at me, and then I turned to my right and my dad was walking very slowly (with a stick) to the car, and me in the middle - it was very much a moment of threshold, of liminality. Dawn is liminal, a flame is liminal - just seemed to fall together once I'd focussed on that.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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cheers Laura - re 'Fracking' - must say, like most people, I don't know enough about the technical stuff to know how much harm and upset fracking is going to cause - but I don't know how syphilis works either - I just know I don't want it :-). I'm having a go at a few 'form' poems over next week or so - but a cinquain was new to me - so thought I'd give it a go

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hey John - thanks for commenting on 'cheap whore' - I'm not sure I agree wholly with your view that we keep coming back for more - some audiences are much harder work than others ;-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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...and thanks for the kind and supportive comments on 'cheap whore' Alan - I was having 'one of those days' ;-)

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

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thanks for commenting on my last 2 efforts Laura - Gram Parsons never put a musical foot wrong in my opinion :-)I do keep coming back for more - but sometimes I could just walk away - very frustrating on 'certain nights' ;-)

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Thank you Dave! : ))) x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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thanks for the comment on don't take my... poem.. I do have a few more in mind, but getting time is always my problem but glad you liked it.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hello, MC!
I am so much thankful for commenting on my poem "My Long-Suffering Ukraine".

With warmest wishes,
Larisa xxx

PS You are incredible

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Hello Lynn - thanks for your reply on my profile
page.
I was astounded to read the other day that-as of
May 2013-there was a figure of 2.49 million
claiming ESA/or old-style incapacity benefit.
What country of any small size/population can
afford that?
"Disablement" needs the most rigorous yet fair
assessment. What might be a disablement for one
job might not restrict employment in another -
especially interchange between physical and mental work.
As I recall, the introduction of the system was
a right-minded policy to alleviate hardship
in the short term, not provide an entitlement
life-style. Abuse of the original concept has
now brought the latter into being - which cannot
be good for either self respect or productive human effort in the cause of national well-
being.
Having said that, the onus is on any government
to make a system easily understood and just as
easily applied. There can be NO excuse for
confusion or complications when dealing with
people's well-being OR the nation/s collective
purse. It is NO place for jobsworths seeking
to "play" the administration of public payments
and give deserving cases the run-around and
increase their difficulties.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi,

What's your idea?! :-)

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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No worries Harry. It would be intriguing to see where it goes next. I appreciate the straightforward, 'building blocks' approach to play-writing rather than crowding everything with context. The more ambiguity the more the audience has to think about, always a good thing!

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Dominic, thanks for commenting on Surbiton Lagoon, which has legendary status on Facebook these days. Other lidos survived - Tooting Bec, Guildford, Hampton - but Surbiton's did not. Shame on the royal borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. Talking of Kingston, I hope to be at Rhythm & Muse this coming Thursday. Maybe see you there?

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thanks starfish appreciate the time taken to comment and im glad you liked it, i look forward to reading you again soon.

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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Thanks Harry

It's hard keeping healthy doing retirement. (Never get a day off)

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Lynn,
Thanks for your comment on the play

(I thought I`d blogged this, I don`t know where it went :))

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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David,
A belated thanks for your comment on the play

I was trying to get rid of the `explanational` stuff and get down to the bare bones of the thing and give the actors something to play with...It`s much harder when trying to bring in sub plots.

Comment is about David Blake (poet profile)

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Did I not reply sooner? I've sent an email thanking you. Tommy

Comment is about Shevaughn Pimenta (poet profile)

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thanks Dave for your comment the mountains are alive and well with madness , i don't know why i love doing them , when i am there i get confused and can think why am i here in this wind and rain? but always want to return , think i am addicted to the way things feel up there harsh and strange ,my parents are not fans of my hobby
but i like testing myself i think its human nature i could talk of mountains all day
stay well keep on it peace

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks Starfish
This site needs a bit more humour to offset the prevalence of soul baring

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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thanks for commenting on 'grievous angel' Alan- glad you liked it - much appreciated
Ian

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

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Chris,
got the glasses okay this morning.

Thanks heaps (I`ll see you both at the next
Spoke)

Thanks again

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Your glasses Harry - I sent them via registered post. They should be with you today, but will need to be signed for. If you miss that/if nobody is in, you can pick them up from your sub post office or habe them re-delivered.

Best of

Chris

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Hi MC, thanks for your comment on my profile, many apologies for not answering this sooner, I have only just noticed it. Yes, I do understand your views, and I agree there are some people like you describe. However, the other side of the coin is that many have paid into the system for years on end, and then they become disabled, only to have Atos tell them they are fit for work, and their benefits stop completely while they await tribunals. It is not fair that many people who cannot find work are having their money stopped altogether for between a month and three months due to unfair procedures at the DWP.
Anyway, respect for your story, MC.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Thanks for the kind comment on 'The Ides' Alan. It was a real off-the-cuff one, as much of my poetry is, come to think of it. :)

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

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Hello Dave,
Thank you for your nice comments on my poem "The Sea Haiku" (stretched out). This is not my best work but I do like experimenting with the formats of my poetry.

Thanks,
Shirley

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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thanks for commenting on 'grievous angel' Gray - yes, a sad loss to the music world and greatly undervalued in his influence on modern country and Americana - a true legend who was taken from us too soon :-(
Ian

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

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A badger chasing a cat - lucky you! The only ones I have seen have alas been at the side of the road.

Comment is about cbyrne (poet profile)

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My comments on things you have posted deserve
some "background".
My mother was widowed in 1949, leaving her with a
small army pension and a handful of children.
She somehow got by doing various jobs including
a school matron and working in a dress shop.
I left school aged barely 16 to travel 100 miles
to start apprentice work in the nation's capital
when the average weekly wage was a tenner and the
idea of "a thousand a year" was almost beyond
dreams. I worked until my retirement in a
risky shift-work environment - and now, in
retirement, I still pay tax...enough per month to
keep a person in food for a similar period by my reckoning! I am in favour of temporary help
via "benefits" for emergencies, the deserving old
& disabled but I have reservations about a system
that has allowed a culture of "entitlement" to
other folk's money to grow and prosper to the
extent that what was scrounging has become almost
sociably respectable and the idea that "God helps those who help themselves" has virtually vanished
from modern thinking. Pardon me if I want to
look very closely at anyone's claim for other
folk's money before giving it the "green light".
Include the young, the alien and the never-
employed in that assessment. I would, however,
approve a claim for a bike - for agreed use in travelling beyond the home comfort zone so many
never seem willing to leave!
Regards

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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yes mate decent work stay on it Peace

Comment is about Wez Jefferies (poet profile)

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Chris, I`ve tried again with (I hope) the number you gave.

But I`m a complete ignoramus at this internet stuff..(I think I didn`t do the capital C.)

I WAS A BIT PUZZLED BECAUSE THERE WAS STILL THE WRONG NUMBER IN BLUE ON THE (FAVOURITES?)
PANEL WHEN I DONE THE SECOND ONE

SORRY FOR THE HASSLE.

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Hi Harry,

I've checked my email, but nothing has come through. Not sure if you have the correct one or not, but just in case here it is;

Coaster.coey@googlemail.com

Best of

Chris

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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thanks so much Harry - it was great to meet the man behind the myth at last :-) I really enjoyed myself and it seemed to go down OK - just a bit more sparse than I was expecting. I presume Dave's been in touch about your glasses (?) thanks very much for the supportive comments (as always). BTW - I loved your piece about the volatile relationship with the female union member - very amusing - Ta

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Ian,
Congratulations on last night`s guest spot.
Enjoyed it hugely, and your delivery was excellent (and the poems)

I wish you many more of them.

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Chris,
You`ve made me a happy man. I`ve sent you an e mail about the glasses.

I`m sorry about leaving early, it was important
(I told Ian beforehand)

The heads getting better (slowly)...The brain went ages ago.

Thanks for your concern.

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Hello John

It's so nice to hear from you . Your reference to my insistence on three..'cames' was for a feeling of emptiness, I was endeavouring to find atmosphere,echo and repetition in addition to a smouldering ravishing beneath the greenwood. Oooh ...whoops.. just felt the urge, the temptation to utilise yet another .....oh well it 'Came' and went.

Meanwhile John, I have no doubt you will keep up your good works...and look forward madly to seeing you soon.

lots of love and best wishes .

Augusta xx

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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thanks for commenting on 'baptised' Starfish - grateful for your thoughts as always :-)

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thanks for the kind comments regarding 'old school tie' Chris - glad you liked it :-)

Comment is about cbyrne (poet profile)

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Once saw a badger chase a cat - was one of my highlights of 2013!

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,

Thank you again for you appreciation of my work - it is really touching and inspiring to me. I feel I am splitting my voice at the moment - been writing a lot of stuff to send to competitions, magazine publications etc. which I am trying to be brave enough to allow a more personal stance with the reader, but am also still keen to explore word sounds and the architecture of this in more abstract work too.

Will we see you at Sale WOL next Tuesday? I will be reading and it would be lovely to hear you again.

Take care,

Marianne x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hey Harry, you left your glasses behind at the the Spoke.

Natalie has hold of them for you. just let us know how you want to go about getting them back.

P.S

I didn't know about the fall - Best of & good health!

Chris

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Thanks Dave, appreciate your comment :-)

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Cheers for commenting, much appreciated :-)

Kath

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