Hi Edie - welcome to WOL. Hope to see more on your profile page and some poems soon :)
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Hi Starfish - hope you enjoy the site - look forward to your verses! :)
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Hi Mike - welcome to WOL. Hope you are enjoying the site. Maybe you might like to put a poem on the blog section - more folk get to see your work there :)
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Hi Marksy - a very warm welcome to WOL - good to see you blogging! Hope you are enjoying the site :)
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i'm with ian on this piece, tommy. very very visual. can almost smell the waves here.
the last two lines particularly finish it well.
top stuff
Comment is about As if to care (blog)
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particularly like the second stanza here, rach but it's a strong piece all round
Comment is about whalesong (blog)
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lot of good stuff here, tina. maybe a little long for me, but i did still enjoy it x
Comment is about The earth and her lover (blog)
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made me smile, dorinda. top stuff x
Comment is about Upside Down In The Sink (blog)
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particularly like 'A cavalcade of slack-skinned cattle' but it's a excellent piece all round
Comment is about Gull Beach (blog)
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pete's a great poet. seen him at guitar and verse i think three times and he's well worth going to see guys. and a top bloke
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Middleton tonight (article)
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sad news again. i suspect when my book 'the end of summer' is ready i will have to think about long and hard where to send it to but it's sad news for all affected.
Comment is about Rubbing Salt in it: poets mourn publisher's pullout (article)
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not good atall here. i've read some quotes by this guy which does make it appear to be a different ball game here, but everything published since january 2011 (i read elsewhere) is worrying however.
let's hope it is the last one but i suspect it probably isn't.
Comment is about It's happened again: new poet unmasked as serial plagiarist (article)
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<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 24th May 2013 12:01
reading this great piece Rachel,
has turned me into an addict-
for more!more!more!
and...a.s.a.p.x
Comment is about whalesong (blog)
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Sewerby park wow playing golf on balmy red hot days,late afternoons happy times for me.
The boats, you said you didn't love Brid, but do you not remember the pleasure cruises on the Bridlington queen etc? I remember being 17 and so full of myself looking pensive and feeling handsome day dreaming in all these places along the ne coast. Truly happy
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Don`t we all know, Jonnie, don`t we all know!
Comment is about The Poem Fails (blog)
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Never, ever, do anything that`s not in your job description - trousered or not.
Comment is about Upside Down In The Sink (blog)
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Good one Tommy - like this a lot - a real sense of the power of nature and the sorrow of leaving - it made me think that you could be talking about the sea behind you that you were missing rather than a lost love.
Really evocative and atmospheric
Top Stuff
Ian
Comment is about As if to care (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I'll settle for being laid on a raft, cast adrift down the Aire; then a Viking bowman looses a fire arrow at me to the sound of a cowhorn.
...or something equally simple.
Ah, the hatchment - medieval Facebook.
Enjoyed this as usual, TT.
Comment is about Funeral (blog)
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Tim just wants a big Chopper.
Comment is about I Wish I Had A Harley (blog)
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If ever I'm on duty, Tim, I'd be happy to take you on a tour.
Comment is about Tim Ellis (poet profile)
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One of the many sights in Yorkshire I've somehow not visited yet. Interesting stuff John!
Comment is about 1069 And All That (blog)
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That's quite witty (or maybe I'm just going through exactly the same phase in my life...)
Comment is about I Wish I Had A Harley (blog)
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Hello Richard.
Danes Dyke - yes. In fact, we've just had a week at Sewerby.
The boats? I'm sure I will have as a kid. I'm absolutely certain about the Hispaniola, though; and bashing the Germans in Peasholm Park!
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
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Thanks for your comments x
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Hello Richard.
Danes Dyke - yes. In fact, we've just had a week at Sewerby.
The boats? I'm sure I will have as a kid. I'm absolutely certain about the Hispaniola, though; and bashing the Germans in Peasholm Park!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Richard, thank you for your positive comments about the site. very welcome indeed. came at a good time.
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Thank you Freda, it was a true experience of mine. I am happy you like my poems and thank you for taking the time to read them :) x
Comment is about My first love (blog)
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Hello Freda, thank you very much for your lovely comment x
Comment is about The earth and her lover (blog)
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I am enjoying going back over your entries Tina. There are lots of things I really like: what you write about, your stories, the humour. Great stuff.
Comment is about The earth and her lover (blog)
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Very clear, and a powerful message Christina.
A simple structure which you don't lose control of, helps to take us through to the conclusion. You handle the rhyme well, and it doesn't distract from the story you are telling.
The key moment "until one day I believed the mirror" which is the beginning of the renewal, is so well put. Writing this kind of experience is never easy, whether it is lived or imagined, but it is an important story to tell.
Comment is about My first love (blog)
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really funny. well spotted Lyn.
Comment is about Upside Down In The Sink (blog)
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Hi Dom the Bolton Neo sounds interesting maybe you can let me know the date in June when you find out
cheers :)
Comment is about Dominic Berry (poet profile)
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Don't quote Shakespeare or the Bible in your poems guys. You'll be in for it good n proper.
Comment is about It's happened again: new poet unmasked as serial plagiarist (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Old Oak
is your
protected shelter.
Golden leaves
turn brown
then crumble.
Love sunset
wishing hard
eyes open.
Comment is about The Oak Tree III (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
Scott Devon and Neo Poetry-Matrix of Neoartists have made a friendly, caring, supportive and fun space for poets with the NEO:LIVE event in Bolton. I heartily recommend it. Nat and Paul Blackburn were excellent, well-organised hosts and will be guest poets at the next one in June. I'll be going to cheer them on.
Bolton is easier to get to from Manchester than Manchester folk might think, a few quid return on a train that takes just a few minutes.
It is dead hard setting up and running an event, it takes a bucket load of work (recalling Bang Said The Gun: Manchester and Freed Up) and I know the effort Scott and co have put into making this splendid event.
I was impressed by the variety and quality of the open mic. There was a lot of comedy that proper made me laugh but never did it get to the point where poets with quieter, subtler, more serious work were not able to make the space their own. The audience laughed and listened in equal measures and, speaking as someone who often feels music and spoken word do not work well at the same event, the balance of guitar and voice throughout the night was spot on. Who can resist a chorus of 'Common People'?
Nat is a stunning poet, I am dead jealous of his 'Half' poem and his songs are exceptional. Both he and Paul have great comic timing and were so generous and giving in their hosting - I'm really looking forward to seeing them guest.
Well done all involved. NEO:LIVE is a special event.
Comment is about Dominic Berry (poet profile)
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Oh dear! There's trouble at 't mill
Comment is about It's happened again: new poet unmasked as serial plagiarist (article)
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Hi Richard
you're nearly right - I'm on at Cadence on 18th July - it is my book launch event (book is titled 'A Step Towards Winter')but it isn;t really baseds around Poe - although 'That Which Autumn Leaves' is in the collection and a couple of the other poems are quite dark. Hope your reading of 'In The Belly Of The Whale' went down well :-) look forward to meeting you at Cadence
Ian
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
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In the Guardian story Ira Lightman is quoted as saying: "Everything online by David R Morgan that I could find since Jan 2011 I could trace 90% of to another person's poem."
Comment is about It's happened again: new poet unmasked as serial plagiarist (article)
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NO worries Alex - you can't force poetry, it has to be inside you wanting to come out. I'm glad to hear that this particular theme isn't :) x
Comment is about 52 Hertz (blog)
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Did you ever go to Danes Dyke John
Sail on the Flamborean or the Bridlington queen The Yorkshire bell,,,its nuts they just stick in your mind like toffee, did you ever meet the guy who used to play the fiddle on those boats?
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Thanks Alex it is a poem which is very much meant to be performed and I give the lines the right weight internation etc
Its kind of about an opinion held by one person for another, and if you like the opinion is so dark and wrong and the victim of this opinion is just sending out a reaction questioning those opinions held in the darkest exaggerated way.
Basicly saying your wrong, I am not this bad person you say I am
Not really higher level more a Stream of consciousness
Thanks hun
Comment is about I AM (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
When does allusion, quotation or inspiration become plagiarism? To what extent did this poet plagiarise? Whole works? Fragments, Odd lines? David Bowie has described a songwriting process which begins with an existing song. Then he modifies the melody and the lyric repeatedly until a 'new' work emerges. Plagiarism. There was a big controversy a few years back alleging that Dylan plagiarised songs on the album Love & Theft. Well of course there's a clue in the title. I looked into this a bit and you could find inspiration from previous works or thematic similarities but nothing I'd call plagiarism... musically it was a different matter. But then he's always taken other people's melodies!
Comment is about It's happened again: new poet unmasked as serial plagiarist (article)
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It's the democratic ethos of Write Out Loud, Tim. We all take our turn in posing next to the lead story, whatever it may happen to be. A new pic with every click. No one hangs around there for long!
Comment is about It's happened again: new poet unmasked as serial plagiarist (article)
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Ann Foxglove
Fri 24th May 2013 17:27
Hi Poppy - a very warm welcome to WOL. I really like your poem here. Maybe you could put it on the blogs section where I'm sure more people would read it. :)
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