Tremendous
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
tony sheridan
Mon 11th Mar 2013 10:26
Leonard Cohen. Nuff said! Nice one! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about Cohen (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanks for your kind comments on my songs M.C.
I enjoy pottering around in the folk scene ( got bitten by the bug in Manchester as a teenager) - now Doncaster has to put up with me!
I'm impressed with your letter to the Times being published . I fire the odd one off to the Telegraph but no luck so far.
Yvonne XX
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I'd say it's a nice poem for kids because it bounces along and it's the kind of story they'd be drawn to. There are a few places where the metre seems out but if this is a first draft it shouldn't take long to smoothe them out.
Comment is about The Macabre Castle (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson
Only a first go, needs tidying up, was asked to write this for a teacher who would like me to go into a school and read it to some children doing a project on castles. I'm wondering if its a little scary for 5 year olds though??????
Comment is about The Macabre Castle (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson
Wendy Scott
Sun 10th Mar 2013 21:20
I enjoyed your review, Greg. I personally think this collection is rather uneven, but I like the penultimate poem by Katherine Stansfield, 'Relic', because of the way it exposes the besottedness of the unbridled fan - all right, I admit, I am one too, and who would not wish to recapture 'the long dead croon'?
Wendy
Comment is about Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles: ed. Bowen, Furniss, Woolley (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Beautiful - love the simplicity of this.
Comment is about minnow (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Thanks for the comment about "Paper Chase". I used to buy the broadsheets, then none at all, followed by the occasional purchase of the D.E. - with its free TV magazine on Saturday (and its campaign agin' an overbearing EU). The London Evening Standard is now FREE here in town - so that makes up most of my current newspaper reading these days. I was telling Yvonne B. that I once had a letter published in The Times (THOSE were the glory days!) challenging noted pundit and author Bernard Levin about his use of the term "agent provocateur". Nowadays, it's more likely to be a moan printed in a local "freebie" letter page!!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
I've just been listening to your two songs. Delightful, especially "Kushagarnie" which has a timeless feel to it. Both are most appealingly sung. You are obviously a gifted lady with much to offer. Well done, you! I enjoy folk - The Watersons/Martin Carthy and the Fishermen's Friends...to mention some; and,of course, Country from the USA. They go to the heart of what it is to be human - with all its trials, tribulations and happiness.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Hi Yvonne - thanks for taking the trouble to
comment on "Paper Chase". I understand your
liking for the Daily Telegraph...a sane and
sensible "read" for those seeking one step up
in the search for information. I once had the
satisfaction of having a letter published in
The Times, challenging noted columnist and
broadcaster Bernard Levin about his use of the
term "agent provocateur". Those were the days!
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 10th Mar 2013 14:33
W.O.W.(as in Wonderful Or What!!)
Comment is about Bucket Of Memories (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 10th Mar 2013 14:23
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 10th Mar 2013 14:21
absolutely lovely!xx
Comment is about they fly by (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 10th Mar 2013 14:20
Thanks for taking a moment to read 'The Long and Dusty Road' MC. I worked on this for a long time and my breakthrough moment was verse 5 so I then went back and re worked things in that style hence the structure. Think I've done my usual trick and posted the poem before I've done meddling with it . .
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
skillfully put together, Ian. Seamlessly effective
Comment is about Copernicus’ Commentariolus (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Love the ephemeral feeling of a magic moment captured and imortalised in words.
Comment is about minnow (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
The lady dog thought 'I'm in Luck
A randy pooch that wants to ....k'
But as he thrust his doggy winkie
His lady owner, feeling kinky,
Joined in the fun - the rest we fudge -
( she later tried it on the Judge).
Comment is about The Dog's Bollocks (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
They don't sell i down my way but I'm addicted to the Telegraph Letters to the Editor page, and Matt cartoons and the cryptic crossword. The political pages don't get a look-in though.
Witty defense of the Mail. Enjoyed it.
Comment is about PAPER CHASE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Oh John, you can put a shilling in my slot any day.XX
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Ah, a rondeau, Ian. I haven't had a go at one of these but posted a triolet a couple of years ago. I might re-post again when I run out of current stuff.
Good to see someone else doing form.
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=18903
Comment is about Copernicus’ Commentariolus (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
I have to confess, MC, I'm not much of a paper reader, myself. I prefer the BBC website.
When I do buy one it's usually "i" - by far and away the best value.
Comment is about PAPER CHASE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you Rachel. Is that the same statue Mark E Smith refers to in City Hobgoblins? I hope so :)
Comment is about Ruined (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
<Deleted User> (10969)
Sat 9th Mar 2013 17:55
I was in Vol 2 and am greatly honoured to be in Vol 3 as well. Really looking forward to the launch :-)
Comment is about Trumpeting the return of Best of Manchester Poets with volume 3 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Very funny, and sly - sly - sly.
Comment is about On Social Strata (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
I am so impressed. I've not successfully done a rondeau. You give me encouragement. Good jab about the 'Papal chain'.
Comment is about Copernicus’ Commentariolus (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
More than syllables, which are contrary to English anyway, I think you have caught the haiku intent of exposing an arresting thought, nature based.
Comment is about My first Haiku (blog)
Original item by Alison Smiles
More than syllables, which are contrary to English anyway, I think you have caught the haiku intent of exposing an arresting thought, nature based.
Comment is about My first Haiku (blog)
Original item by Alison Smiles
Lovely piece. I've missed you.
I have such a small suggestion: because I think 'mercury' is used in the same idea as 'fleeting' and maybe even 'magic', would you consider using one line or the other? I tried it out several times, and the poetic impact of just one line is quite dramatic.
Comment is about minnow (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
good poetry..reminds me of a statue of queen victoria in picadilly gardens. stoney old and covered in pigeon shit :)
Comment is about Ruined (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
I look forward to your work shared on WOL. That's a very impressive profile.
Comment is about Geraldine Monk (poet profile)
Original item by Geraldine Monk
I think many of us must have mulled over which- sight or hearing - we'd choose to do without if it ever came to that state of affairs. I think of total hearing loss as akin to a form of suffocation, too awful to contemplate. I am comforted by the amazing advances being made in returning hearing to the deaf - whilst being truly amazed that there is actually resistance from the deaf community for reasons that somehow relate to how they are perceived by the rest of us. Strange indeed. I recall being told decades ago that my sight was likely to deteriorate but so far so good - except for a need for specs. for "sharpening" up short distances as the years march on. We are so fortunate to live in an age when medical "miracles" arrive with increasing frequency.
Comment is about VISIT TO THE AUDIOLOGY CLINIC, 1973 (blog)
Original item by Rodney Wood
"A woman with every thrust succeeding
Departing from what is known as "breeding".
Certainly at Crufts, I doubt there are calls
For an owner to hold their pooch's balls!"
Comment is about The Dog's Bollocks (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A timely reminder of how folk - perhaps inured to suffering following the awful years of WW2 -got on with their lives and mourned in more personal style...unlike today when every personal loss is seen somehow to be that of the nation as a whole and the media promote each tragic circumstance via a 24 hour news service hungry - often distastefully so - for content.
NB - I doubt if there was any mention of so-called policing "failures" back then.
Comment is about Burnden Disaster 1946 (blog)
Original item by Jeffarama!
some great lines in this guys.. top one
Comment is about February Space (February 2013 Collage Poem) (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
sounds interesting over the blue cat guys.. keep us informed
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
hope to make it this time
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
i was in volume 1 and will be in volume 3 again.. don't know if i will be able to attend the launch for volume 3, but the launch for volume 1 was a heck of a night at the greenroom.. will certainly never forget that night
Comment is about Trumpeting the return of Best of Manchester Poets with volume 3 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
absolutley brilliantly written jeff, such a huge sad disaster to be forgotten.... lets hope they have a minutes silence for the fallen today eh ? XXX
Comment is about Burnden Disaster 1946 (blog)
Original item by Jeffarama!
The Burnden disaster 1946, 67 years ago today. In the shadow of other football related disasters, few people know about this.
It was the first major disaster in football in Britain, yet it is seldom remembered or commemorated, maybe it's time to change that.
RIP the 33 supporters from Bolton & North west who died.
Comment is about Burnden Disaster 1946 (blog)
Original item by Jeffarama!
Thanks Greg, looking a great Words event lots going on over a couple of weeks!!!
Comment is about Words Together festival looks to its grassroots (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks John
it's actually a Rondeau - based upon the concept that the sun doesn't actually rise - the earth tilts :-) good old Copernicus eh?
Ian
PS - sorry - posted this on the blog first - forgot it doesn't go to you direct - what a numpty :-(
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Oh no, Yvonne!
I was right fancying my chances (especially the bit about "embracing the ugly") when I got knocked back for A BLOODY DUSTER!
Have you abandoned the metre? or just not got a shilling for it?
Comment is about On Social Strata (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Thanks John
it's actually a Rondeau - based upon the concept that the sun doesn't actually rise - the earth tilts :-) good old Copernicus eh?
Ian
Comment is about Copernicus’ Commentariolus (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Top-bombing, Ian.
I don't profess to understand the astronomy but I enjoyed the ride, particularly the repetition (almost felt like a villanelle).
Comment is about Copernicus’ Commentariolus (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Enjoyed, Ann. It reminded me of a passage I read recently in Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods" where he comes across a moose (who comes across Bryson) and they stare tansfixed looking at each other for several moments.
Comment is about minnow (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Laura Taylor
Mon 11th Mar 2013 13:46
Lovely. Poignant, tender, very evocative - could feel that icy wind against my own face.
Comment is about Bucket Of Memories (blog)