Tim - sentiments that all those with a 'free' voice can relate to. Not sure you meant the word admonish though. Did you mean administered?
Rob
Comment is about A poem for Ashraf Fayadh (blog)
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Thank you Vicki for taking the time to comment , and on such a sensitive subject its reassuring that that you like the poem
Comment is about I Was Just Thinking About You... (Blue Mosque Istanbul 12/01/16 10:40 am) (blog)
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Thank you Ray - I'm all about the rhythm!! And Tommmy ..... Why am I not surprised?!! X
Comment is about Nice Try ....! (blog)
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We're on the same "hymn sheet" here. Thanks a lot.
It was inspired by a CD of Chet Baker "on a misty night."
I bought yesterday. For a fiver. masters of the craft in perfect sympathy. Not like the house of commons, come to think of it. Cheers Ray
Comment is about HEAR THE JAZZ (blog)
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When I was in hospital I heard two nurses discuss my case, one nurse remarked that she had seen my ***** and it had Ludo tattooed on it, the young pretty nurse blushed and informed her that was not Ludo, but Llandudno.
Tommy
Comment is about Nice Try ....! (blog)
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I think she's a good poet, from what I've read of her work. Mainstream, I suppose, but rather more adventurous than most. I think she might change that area of poetry and make it a bit more adventurous. No bad thing, as it was beginning to look extremely stale.
So I think she probably deserves the prize - and comments about 'ticking PC boxes' are not necessary frankly. It's actually a pretty good thing that a poet of colour and a woman has won the prize for what is, actually, very good quality work.
My point was not to do with whether she was or was not any good. I just believe quite strongly that she won't change the whole of poetry. Poetry - like music, like the visual arts - it's not one thing. It is a various art that takes different directions and has different groups and movements in it.
As an experimental/linguistically innovative poet myself, I doubt she'll affect much of my practice, and I doubt that many performance poets will be affected for instance. I doubt she'll have much impact on the traditional rhyming poets either.
I think it's part of the mainstream's feeling of superiority that makes it think that one mainstream poet will affect all poetry. The idea that they 'are' poetry and everything else is 'something-poetry' and not really poetry at all.
Comment is about And the winner is .... (article)
Original item by Frances Spurrier
Thanks Wolfgar. Just a teaser/pleaser this, and it all feels dated now. Gotcha. Ray
Comment is about LETTER TO THE QUEEN (blog)
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How can an anthology published this year 'change poetry'? It takes centuries of posterity to determine such things.
This person seems to tick an uncomfortably large number of PC boxes for me.
Comment is about And the winner is .... (article)
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Yes, it is a sin.
I take 'sin' to mean something between a mistake and a bad thing.
There are much better ways of organising ourselves on this planet. Failing to do the better things constitutes a sin.
I understand everyone must enjoy their brief life and it seems I must understand everyone is a sinner; not believing in God helps.
Comment is about Is it (blog)
I echo what Stu says - so powerful - I think the length is perfect though - cut down in an instant so to speak
Comment is about I Was Just Thinking About You... (Blue Mosque Istanbul 12/01/16 10:40 am) (blog)
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Hi Rims - I like this but agree with Ray that the 'oh dear' seems out of place - it's a stronger line without it I think - but it's your poem! There is some lovely wording & I like your discription of a 'skin underneath the vessel' I can identify with that! Xx
Comment is about Lazy Evening (blog)
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Straight to the point as always Mr C - well put xx
Comment is about p45 (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
A poignant piece - & begs the question is asked - nice x
Comment is about Is it (blog)
Preeti Sinha
Thu 14th Jan 2016 18:03
Thank you so much for reading and your lovely comments !
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Preeti Sinha
Thu 14th Jan 2016 18:02
Hi Vic, loved Nice Try! Some men! Thanks for reading and commenting on What :)))
Comment is about Pixievic (poet profile)
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Thanks for reading & commenting on 'Nice Try' - it's really appreciated! And I'm sure you're not a man who does such things!! Xx
Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)
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Thank you Martin! - I am a believer that eyes are the windows to the soul! You can tell a lot by someone's eyes!! - as to who said it first .... well that's a battle I've entered into before! Widely credited to the Bard - but also Di Vinci I believe!! There are many ways of saying it & lots of people have done! Thanks again x
Comment is about Nice Try ....! (blog)
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I share your nervousness about prizes but they seem to be an inescapable fact of the contemporary poetry scene.
Comment is about And the winner is .... (article)
Original item by Frances Spurrier
Sandbags for the soul eh? Thanks Julian. I hope things get back to normal up there as soon as possible.
Comment is about Poetry floods the Calder Valley (article)
very you. read this next month please (:
Comment is about Pure Panic (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
remember this from monday. great piece. one of your best i think..
Comment is about Smoke room (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
perfect.. x
Comment is about On the death of David Bowie (By Emma/written in 2 minutes when I woke up!) (blog)
Original item by Emma-Jane Stradling
also excellent. love indigo midnight here in particular.
brill..
andy
Comment is about Will It Ever Snow Again (blog)
Original item by Gus Jonsson
excellent, excellent, excellent. not a word too much or out of place.
top stuff matey.
hope you are ok
andy
Comment is about Forever (blog)
Original item by Gus Jonsson
great stuff. still working on the notes from monday that i took. will get them over to John over the week-end.
Comment is about January 2016 Collage Poem: The End of the World (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
A poetic account
of what could be
but we escape
the end to write
another collage poem
of what might be.
Comment is about January 2016 Collage Poem: The End of the World (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
I'm afraid I'm similarly distrustful of poetry competitions and particularly the reasons given for deciding on the winner.
I spent many years in the wine trade and there are acute similarities between poetry and fine wine. The problem comes when one needs to describe/laud them both.
Explanations are useless. The reader/drinker knows how they make one feel but cannot accurately explain in words without sounding ridiculous.
Steven is right! Change what?
Comment is about And the winner is .... (article)
Original item by Frances Spurrier
Why thankyou. Although I did have to google the meaning of succinct haha. It's a good word, I like it! ..So thanks for that :)
Comment is about Empathy (blog)
Original item by Stu Burton
Which 'British poetry' are they talking about? 'British poetry' is a various art - it's also the land of Beowulf, Skelton, Blake and Bunting...
...not to mention Aphra Behn, Christiana Rossetti, and Dame Edith Sitwell and Geraldine Monk...
Comment is about And the winner is .... (article)
Original item by Frances Spurrier
I love the lyrical flow of this poem and can imagine that it would work really well performed. Nice one
Comment is about Eat your own heart out. (blog)
Original item by Daniel Wardak
What an excellent poem Vicki. I have been made aware some years ago that there a good deal of men who undress women with their eyes. Who was it that said the eyes are the window's to the soul.
Comment is about Nice Try ....! (blog)
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J Graham
Thu 14th Jan 2016 02:53
Love the serenity of this poem.
That line, wishing to sit with another soul.
I pictured myself siting next to you smiling and enjoying the peaceful sounds of the rain.
Comment is about Rainspell (blog)
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J Graham
Thu 14th Jan 2016 02:47
Very witty :)
Love the last 7 lines especially the last two.
Comment is about Nice Try ....! (blog)
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hi stu - the poem uses Dawkins as a metphor really - but I agree he is a rather vexatious chap
it always amuses me how someone who claims to be a evolutionary scientist, when grandstanding on matters of religion relies so heavily on the unreconstructed arguments of pamphleteers of the 13th and 14th century
but then I also included the joke about branches, since Dawkins is rather an unreconstructed mid-19th century evolutionary biologist
Comment is about Taking Tea with Dawkins (blog)
Original item by jeremy young
thank you for your thoughtful comment Stu , was really good of . i suppose i was trying to a make an an awful event personal (human) as it could have been any of us at any given time and place . and the postcard as it were couldn't be written as it were, cut tragically short
Comment is about I Was Just Thinking About You... (Blue Mosque Istanbul 12/01/16 10:40 am) (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
It's No. 32 on our local Chinese, Graham.
(Slipped up tonight, haven't we?)
Comment is about A PEKING SPICE ODDITY (blog)
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John, don't I remember this getting as high as No7 or was it No 23?
Comment is about A PEKING SPICE ODDITY (blog)
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Thanks for reading & commenting on 'nice try!' - I shall make sure the graffiti is removed ;-)!! Xx
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Hmmmmm - ahhhh go on then ;-) x
Comment is about A PEKING SPICE ODDITY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Haha! Well .... It a little known pub called The Golden Cock - Doncaster I believe!!
Comment is about Nice Try ....! (blog)
Original item by Pixievic
Hi M.C.
I still have memories of the Jacques lossier trio playing that familiar piece of Bach. On high days and holidays I would occasionally switch to king edwards cigars. You are of course right about having a pint with a hamlet, very nice!
i have occasionally trolled through some of the old adverts on you tube. I think my favourites were probably the late Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins in the cinzano ad's
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Thanks, Vicki. Perhaps you'll rub that writing off the wall now?
Comment is about A PEKING SPICE ODDITY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
...and they're smaller too! Wagon Wheels used to be the size of, well - wagon wheels.
Comment is about POUNDS (NO SHILLINGS) AND PENCE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I recognise myself in this, Vicki. But which wall is it? I should paint over it.
Comment is about Nice Try ....! (blog)
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Robert Mann
Fri 15th Jan 2016 20:28
Vicki - I don't think the chat system is working properly as I did reply: Dancing rapping ranters - that's some imagination! More M.C. Hammer style than Morris dancers I think.
Rob
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