Thanks for your comments on mine John. Yes - I'm experimenting with a more simple style at the moment. I need to get back to comedy at some point - will have to hone my rhyming talent for that :)

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Hello y. I'm afraid 'nick nocky' is entirely the work of kd. It was my tribute and cheeky contribution to the discussion on experimental poetry in the blog 'william carlos williams red wheelbarrow'.

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Mikhail, thank you so much x

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Lynn, thank you so much x

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Yvonne, thanks for taking the time to read and comment
The Ofsted thing is part of my ongoing battle to stop writing about people who may go into a school, which came about with the little WOL campaign to write/submit poems that would go on the Poet-tree at Kingsland School

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Hi John,

I guess I'm still alive since you're writing to me so I'd better find me pencil stub and me tatty bit of wallpaper and return to the chase. I've just been reading your Ikea song again and I can't stop laughing!

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Ey up, Y.
Wot you doin' on this site again! Not seen you since your rather poor "100 Metres" pipped my excellent "Whinge and Fucking Bleat" to the tape in the Olympic Competition.
Get yourself a new pencil sharpener.
(Oh and thanks for the comments on "Racist Is...")

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hello Is
Thanks for your thoughts on "Racist Is As...".
I buy into the truth of what you say, but only to this extent.
Total non-racism would entail a complete change of attitude in every one of us. This is an ideal.
I'd settle for a complete change in behaviour.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello AE.
Glad you liked "Racist Is..." and "Experimental Poetry". Yes, it struck me that there's more than one way to enter the debate about poetry.

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Glad you liked "Racist Is...", Win.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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(OOps. I said all this to myself on my own blog!)
I have to say that my own interpretation is a little at variance from the "repressed sexuality" theory of Isobel. (I am , of course, more than happy to help you explore this.)
For me the very vehicle itself (conventional metre and rhyme) is being sentenced to death by Dodd. Take the rhyme of "noo" and "noo". Many a lesser poet would overlook the symmetry of the two words. Some critics have indeed denied it is a rhyme at all. But this is the genius of Dodd - to make a difficult rhyme where none exists, condemning rhyme as a device to the dustbin of passe poetry.
Then consider the clipped final line which derives its power from the enforced caesura. Dodd clearly understands as a cursory glance at his lyrical masterpiece "Tears for Souvenirs" will demonstrate, the importance not of the music but of the gaps in between.
His use of the musical rest is crying out to us to "Listen to the silence". Thus he is also condemning rhythm to the dustbin of literary Luddism.
"Move on." he is saying, "Poetry is dead".

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Thanks for commenting on "Experimental Poetry", Nigel. You may be right about the Diddymen.

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Thank you Isobel - will take on board your comments and do a bit of tweaking!

Katy

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Thank you Dave, that's what I have tried to portray - I will probably do a little tweaking!

katy

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hello Freda .. pleased you enjoyed the 'conversation' .. true story about us playing on the 'Edale Folk Train' and a girl from the USA who came to video the day .. cheers.

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hello Anthony

thank you for your comments, I will have a think about standing V's stood!
Best wishes
Katy

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Peter Ashworth has been in touch and I am trying to get him to come down to the next meet Nov 12th to do a talk about the cut backs.

Will keep you all posted to what he says - - -

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Hi Cathy, enjoyed reading your sample poems, & grateful for your comments on 'Through Haze'. Much obliged. P

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Tx Thom, it's a great feeling to see a comment from you. I've just this minute listened to the track by Kath Bloom and I hadn't heard it before. I don't know her at all and probably should but I do now so there's still time.

x

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Thank you... : )

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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Hello Dave - thanks for the encouraging comments. - I'm nearer M'cr now but return to L'pool often - looked in St.Nicks opp Liver bldg last week where gr.gr grandparents from Waterloo were married - didn't see any ghosts !

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Hi Laura, me again banging on about your latest on Poetry24. I do wish others had joined in this debate on how far poets should go with their viewpoints.

I suppose my stance had tended to side with those of Wilfred Owen namely that a poets job is to 'warn'. Your poem tended to conjur up images of anarchy & the recent riots which cost ordinary people their jobs when buildings burned down.

But hey, if you managed to get folk thinking those issues through, - then that could be where its strength lies after all.

CHEERS.P.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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enjoyed 'daisychain summer'. some lovely images.

Comment is about Louise Fazackerley (poet profile)

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Hi Mikhail

Welcome to WOL. I very much like your stuff. I inhabit Crosby for my sins. Are you still there?

Also read The Master and Margarita not so long ago. What a strange book.

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Hi Laura, well done on getting published on Poetry24 again. I had read the poem earlier but bauked (felt uncomfortable)at the bit which appeared to condone nicking the stock.

It was a well stated piece though and brought to light the many social issues people are faced with nowadays & what is seen as the norm. People will always do what is necessary to survive of course and most of us have a story not to be shared, a handful of sweets from Woolworths perhaps as a kid learning the boundaries of life.

What did surprise me though was the lack of comment in response to your poem which merited a meaty response.

CHEERS. P.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Greg, have added another chunk to 'The Pit Stop. Much obliged. P.

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Dear Mr A.E

I am just writing on behalf of me and my black dog to thank you for your consistent and positive comments about our writing. There is a certain beauty in both sadness and despair that should never be ignored!

Yours sincerely

dt

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi Greg, 'The Pit Stop' have added a sizeable chunk on that blog. Appreciate your taking the time to comment. Many thanks.

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Hugh
Many thanks for the positive comment on Mum and Dad. It was written for a very special reason, but unusual for me, as I have never really written specifically for children before
If you have anything that you could contribute to the scheme shown on the front page of the site (Kingsland School) please do so

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lol, indeed. But you may now be infected so you could have another attack at any moment :-)

Win x

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Glad you likie - my experimental stage didn't last long, did it? :)) x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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I never know whether to thank individually or on poem so normally end up doing a mixture of both. I've changed the second verse - hope it sits better now. Thanks for taking the time to comment. x

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Yes Win - I stayed at Lumb Bank when I attended the performance poetry course there last year. I didn't get any cake though! A wondeful place though I did find that wooded hill opposite a bit oppressive (no pleasing some people!)

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Thanks for the kind words about my piece Ann, glad you like it!

I've obviously got a backlog of material, so I'll put them up on blog posts when I have the time, and let you know!

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Hi Ann glad you liked my owliness. Actually Ann, I had just had, possibly one of the best pieces of cake in my life! Chocolate and ginger. We were stood on the lawn terrace of Lumb Bank, Ted and Sylvia Plath's house looking at the autumn trees in an amazing view down Colden valley. Win x

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Hi Jade - a warm welcome to WOL. I see you've been given quite a bit of advice already! All of it good :)

Hope to see more of your work on here soon!

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Thanks for your comment Tom. I'm going to try to improve it some more but I'm glad you liked it as it is. I think in performance that second verse probably wouldn't seem weak - you can't get away with anything on the page though, can you? :)

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Jade many thanks for your kind comments on my site... I always forget that I leave links up so its particularly kind when people leave comments like that. Happy to send you the book- i wrote it in 30 days so don't expect much!
Enjoying your poetry, u have some work to be proud of!

Comment is about Jade (poet profile)

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Hello Steve.
Thanks for commenting on "Cat Nap".
You're not the first not to recognise my copies!

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Sid,
Glad you liked "Cat nap". I realise how poor it is in relation to the original.

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Hello again, MC.
Just noticed your comments on "Cat Nap". A shame you're not familiar with the original "Rat Trap". It really is very good and doesn't deserve to be so poorly parodied.
On another level, I wonder what sub-conscious machinations were going on my head. (We have just moved my dad into a home).

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What ho, AE!
Thanks for your thoughts on "Karma".
I might have to leave the philosophical observations to you and Harry (et al who commented). I'd just like to think that there's a bucket-load of skunk shit heading the way of that bus driver.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Whoa! Here I am again! Sorry for the repetition.

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Hello Jade
Thankyou for commenting on "Karma". Just as you say above "I'm not really a poet", so too I'm not at all a philosopher. I just hope the b*st**d who drenched me gets his!

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Hello Jade
Thankyou for commenting on "Karma". Just as you say above "I'm not really a poet", so too I'm not at all a philosopher. I just hope the b*st**d who drenched me gets his!

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MC - What Ho!
Thanks for your thoughts on "Karma". It really was three true stories woven into one.
I didn't expect a philosophical response though!

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

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Many thanks for your thoughts on "Karma".
I must say I was a bit surprised at the high level of philosophy the blog prompted. I did read Philosophy at University but didn't understand it then so I've no chance now my faculties are going! All I know is I hope the bastard that splashed me gets is come uppance.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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thanks hugh - fish and chips in the bath - luxury!

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thanks Katy, pleased you enjoyed the 'bath' piece -- three hours she posed like that while I painted her -- great dedication to art! - mikhail.

Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)

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Hi there, thx for the comments on my rochdale poem. received and understood. Win

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