Not at all sure who this is aimed at, but it is aimed, for sure.
What was your grandad's concept of socialism John, and indeed yours, out of interest?
Comment is about The Parable of the Shitty Little Ingrate (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Replaced by entitlement, Harry. Not at all my grandad's concept of socialism - nor indeed mine.
Comment is about The Parable of the Shitty Little Ingrate (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Great combination; history, poetry, and humour. Enjoyed this very much John.
Comment is about Henry the Eighth (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sometimes we can make too many sacrifices just to get that name on our rent book! Excellent work,
Best wishes,
Steve
Comment is about A month's trial (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair
Aww, thanks Solar. I'll look out for that Beatles song! x
Comment is about The coldest Morning (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
The images that have gone un-captured, well thought David. There is a definite loss that resembles melancholy and it hits a truism. The language is enjoyable also;
Quote
Achievement and advancement are only rungs on ladders
Climbing from sunlight into darkness
Unquote
The above two lines above are fantastic, Larkin would be proud to acknowledge those.
Of course there is lots of poetry in you yet, as this one most ably demonstrates. In one sense the shackles are off! You're not doing the whole career poet thing, which gives you a level of freedom.
The bottom line is the poems excellent.
Best of
Chris
Comment is about TOO LATE (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
Very good to see poetry that hasn't been produced by the liberal arts Mafia...
Comment is about On Light & Carbon: Noel Duffy, Ward Wood Publishing (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Oh thanks Greg - I've got it to work now. I probably needed to shut down the computer before the new programme would work. It's certainly nitty gritty stuff - all about real life - glad it's not mine though!
But it still beats chaffinches :)
Comment is about 'Saying the unsayable': editor Sophie Hannah talks about The Poetry of Sex (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Nice bit of memorabilia Ian.
Comment is about Any Winter Saturday In Nineteen Seventy (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Thanks Harry. Truth is I am a latecomer to poetry but I am trying to make up for lost time! Appreciate the encouragement!
Comment is about TOO LATE (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
John,
Very true (Ah, gratitude! wherever did it go?)
Comment is about The Parable of the Shitty Little Ingrate (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
David,
Gettawaywitcha!...there`s tuns of poetry in you yet!
Comment is about TOO LATE (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
I was ten when the last one (a continuation
of the Great war)began. And, kid that I was, I can still feel and remember the universal feeling - despite the fear - of `up with this we can no longer put` (it was like a sort of
`wroughting up`
Comment is about BLACK BLOOD - a poem for the Great War (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Love it!
(and the music is better than the last music one)
Comment is about THE COUNTRY SINGER (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Good nightmare stuff this,
But Nick, isn`t there more to worry about now, than in a couple of thousand years time?
Somehow (Don`t tell the Greens)I can`t bring myself to care.
Comment is about RAGING EARTH (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
..."the words you've always had"
Just about sums up what we all do, MC.
Comment is about THE COUNTRY SINGER (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (9882)
Mon 3rd Feb 2014 17:11
reminds me so much of the lyrics in an old Beatles song *Hannah*
#you give back the ring to me
and I will set you free to go with him*
I adore that song and love this poem.x
Comment is about The coldest Morning (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
thanks for your kind comments on 'any winter Saturday.....', 1972 eh - as my dad would have said "You're nobbut a bairn" - glad you liked it and appreciate you commenting
Ian
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
Original item by Andy N
Hi Sophie - Robina sends her love :)
Comment is about 'Saying the unsayable': editor Sophie Hannah talks about The Poetry of Sex (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
David, glad you liked 'Surbiton Lagoon'. Your comment sent me to look at your work, and I was very interested and impressed. I particularly liked 'The Climb', 'Birdbath', and 'The Diving Board', which I felt was almost more of a short story than a poem. Although a long, narrative poem is ok, of course - see Coleridge! You write about nature in a mysterious, intriguing way at times. The photos are excellent, too. All the best, Greg
Comment is about David Blake (poet profile)
Original item by David Blake
Hmm. The inaudible, as well as the unsayable? Worked all right for me, although there is a 'Parental Guidance Lock' message at the start. Could that be anything to do with it?
Comment is about 'Saying the unsayable': editor Sophie Hannah talks about The Poetry of Sex (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This sounded fun - but I can't get it to play - despite downloading flashplayer?
Doh indeed!
Comment is about 'Saying the unsayable': editor Sophie Hannah talks about The Poetry of Sex (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
no mate. was on the way to poem night.
Comment is about Very Nasty Builder (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
<Deleted User> (9882)
Mon 3rd Feb 2014 13:35
ouch. horrible story, Nick.
not the best way to start a night off.
Comment is about Very Nasty Builder (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
enjoyed this, Laura in particular
'Atoms of his sanity exploding on TV.
Spiralling, signalling,
resisting, somersaulting.
Stripped by the media;
consumed, commodified,
dehumanised, and vilified.
This neverland will never last;
wishes made of dollars never do.'
take it you are gonna be submitting this around to Poetry 24 and places similar. Has that kind of feel to that.
Not a fan of the lad in question. Don't think he can sing very much atall, but do feel sorry for him that the press are starting to hunt him like vultures.
Comment is about Judging Justin (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Thanks for drawing our attention to 52 Poems, Andy. Always good to have prompts to help you write poetry.
Comment is about Cat’s Prayer (blog)
Original item by Andy N
little before my time, Ian (Born in 1972) but my memories are not too dis-similar in the late 70's to a lot of this.
enjoyed this.
good stuff m8 in particular the first three lines
Comment is about Any Winter Saturday In Nineteen Seventy (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Thanks for your note on Leaving Home, Jane. Yes, I'm quite obsessed with the differences between physical and experiential time :)
Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)
Original item by jane wilcock
Yes...what?
;p Thank you for your considered critique Solar, I will definitely have a think about your suggestions. Glad you liked/disliked it.
Comment is about Judging Justin (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Congratulations to John Foggin, who has read at Puzzle Hall Poets in Sowerby Bridge to my certain knowledge http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=38307, for winning this one. Here are the results: http://www.theploughprize.co.uk/
Comment is about Andrew Motion to judge £1,000 Plough poetry prize (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
John, thank you - it worked! - Dorinda
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
You can find more of my poetry on line including some videos by searching on DAVID SUBACCHI POET.
Comment is about TOO LATE (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
jan oskar hansen
Sun 2nd Feb 2014 21:54
I used to live in Liverpool during some of the Thatcher years... and now that she is dead, one of my poems appear in a poetry collection about her, published in Liverpool
Comment is about Margaret Thatcher: how I missed my moment (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I used to browse one or two well known poetry magazines in my local library and was less than
impressed by the absence of verse. It is, of
course, human nature to promote stuff in one's own image but it is regrettable that the most
appealing and accessible form of poetry has
been largely abandoned - perhaps because many
who edit nowadays prefer to follow the fashion
for prose poetry...excellent in its own right
but lacking the pleasing pursuit of discipline
in a vocabulary adorned by the imagination.
Comment is about Top poetry magazine editors explain 'the art of choosing' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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)
Original item by Stockport WoL
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 1st Feb 2014 23:52
I wouldn't disagree with you Ian, not in the slightest. In terms of the use of PR to successfully advertise. People should use whatever "works" within reason so they can positively get where they want to go.
Labelling to sell yourself, I would differentiate between that and the mainstay of what labelling is and what people seek to do with it. What i'm saying then, is that I think your example regarding promoting yourself is correct, but I think your wider analogy falls over.
Labelling poets generally, is not just what IS what... like that over there is curry powder, so let's label it curry powder. Labelling in the poets context is pigeon holing, straight jacketing and defining something as one thing, defining a poet as one thing, when very often poets are not (unlike curry power) one thing - at all.
To take a pinch of Louis Macneice
I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my
humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,
would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
one face, a thing, and against all those
who would dissipate my entirety,
P.S
On a totally differing note. We've had a technical issue with the website. It should be sorted by the weekend and the videos up. Will send the link once we get from A to B. Best of
Comment is about Has 'performance poetry' been replaced by 'spoken word'? Discuss (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This is a truly lovely evocative poem,thankyou
Comment is about The Kissing Gate (blog)
Original item by Christopher Dawson
Thanks Harry.
I've always thought that if we feel we should do more to encourage poetry in schools we shouldn't just moan about it. And "cross-learning" (history/poetry) is a good way.
I co-wrote a school song for our local some time ago ("Together"). It's very rewarding (flattering) to hear them sing it at events.
Comment is about Henry the Eighth (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
What`s the world coming to?
Good un` this....(and short)
Comment is about what is the world coming to when... (blog)
Original item by SPACEGHOST
Tom,
That:
`the sea crawls in, the sea backs off`
is excellent. But I feel that the `crash` and the `salty` do (what I take to be the general intention of the `moody` and `brooding`) a bit
of a diservice.
(Your poems are `get-attable`)
Comment is about In These Pictures I Have Taken (blog)
Original item by Tom
Lol - from my experience, you get a more attentive audience if you're semi-clad ;) x
Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)
Original item by Katy Megan
Admirable restraint John,
(perfect for the kids)
Comment is about Henry the Eighth (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
If Catherine of Aragon
Was something of a paragon,
She survived (divorce no bar!)
Like the tasty Catherine Parr.
(And, of course, I'll readily grant ye
This Cath was no one's aunty!)
Comment is about Henry the Eighth (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hello there Nigel! Thanks for your comment in your unique style : )))
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
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)
Original item by Isobel
Yes, I think it was a BBC website which debunked a number of WW1 myths.
Comment is about BLACK BLOOD - a poem for the Great War (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Laura Taylor
Tue 4th Feb 2014 09:18
Cheers both
Ha, yes Andy, it's gone up on Poetry24 today.
Never thought I'd ever find myself writing about Justin Bieber, of all people, but I was listening to the news the other day, and felt kinda sorry for the fella. All I've ever heard from other people about him is contempt. I looked him up and he literally did come from nothing. Quite a deprived background, and raised on a string of low-paid jobs by his single mother.
Who wouldn't take the opportunity that he did, with that background? But you can bet your arse he's worked to death - hence the constant barrage of his stuff on the media. And now we're seeing the consequences of that. It is really quite sad.
Comment is about Judging Justin (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor