Chilling and well read Yvonne.xx

Comment is about Nuclear Cradle Song (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Can a previously published poem be used, or does it have to be unpublished to qualify? TIA.

... added response moved to comment on May 28th...

Comment is about Poems back in the shops - apologies for the buggeration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

1997 would be an interesting year to read.

Comment is about Sixty poems to mark Queen's 60 years (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I couldn't agree more. Especially about 'Carnation Street but are you milking it a bit there?
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Love the patois. it has a gentle joy about it.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Ah the penalties of not being a Jedi Knight.
I enjoyed this.

Comment is about Leaping like calves (blog)

Original item by Marnanel Thurman

Oh, deep joy, yet another gem twangs off the strings of JC's twangy thing.Love it JC. You're my hero.

Comment is about The Cart Belongs to Paddy (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Our host Gemma Lees is poorly in hospital at the mo and may not be able to attend on sunday. We are hoping she's home soon and recovered. So if she cannot make it I will run the night with the Nearly Dead poets comparing. Hope to see you all there. Katie

Review is about Write Out Loud - Middleton on 27 May 2012 (event)

Harry - thanks. I was discussing the absence of accessible uplifting home-grown classical music with a composer chum when he mentioned Lloyd - of whom, despite a fair knowledge of recorded music, I had never heard..an omission I was soon happily to put right with a borrowed tape of his 4th Symphony. Even more amazing -the composer lived nearby and I was to meet him by chance one wet afternoon as he passed me - heading (he admitted) for Safeways in Edgware Road. I have no hesitation placing his prolific CV beside Elgar and Vaughan Williams for its importance to our country's classical music, despite its marginalisation by the UK music establishment since WW2 - something they decline to admit, despite being unable to give any reasons why it is omitted from the Proms or the BBC airwaves year after year while others - like Britten and Tippett - are given repeated exposure via both outlets.

Comment is about GEORGE LLOYD - composer (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

JE - many thanks for the comment on my post for
GEORGE LLOYD.
I have replied thereon but will personally
recommend you check out his prolific CV online.
His symphonies are a good place to start -
expecially those I listed (you already mention the 6th), and there are other works well worth
hearing. This shorter symphony is being performed here in central London tomorrow evening in a concert of all-British music by a
first rate pro-am ensemble that can be found on
www.ph-br.co.uk and I will be there - for a
number of reasons...but most of all, for his
music - so shamefully marginalised by the
"music establishment" of this country since WW2.
Best wishes
MC (Friday 25/5/2012)

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

Original item by John Embley

John - delighted to hear you have found some of
GL's music. He wrote TWELVE symphonies - and
all of them are worth hearing. My own favs. are the 4th (a return from the death that nearly claimed him), the 5th, 8th and 11th (with its uplifting finale full of hope). His
"Symphonic Mass" was described by Gramophone
magazine as "one of the finest pieces of English choral writing of the 20th century" and
Penguin Classical Music Guide calls it the composer's "masterpiece". You have done yourself credit and a huge personal favour by
making your effort to hear GL's work and have
so MUCH to look forward to if you continue your
journey of exploration. Best wishes for a
really rewarding odyssey.

Comment is about GEORGE LLOYD - composer (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Another riotous winner from the prince of popular song pastiche. JC is defining his very own "standard" song repertoire with this sort of thing. Cole would have loved this. I do!!

Comment is about The Cart Belongs to Paddy (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Sure, previously blogged poems welcome. Enter!

Comment is about Poems back in the shops - apologies for the buggeration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Having looked at the terms and conditions, I can't see why previous WOL blogs shouldn't be admitted, Jane. It's not like there is a cash prize or anything. I think you just get the pleasure of exposure to a wider shopping audience ;)

Comment is about Poems back in the shops - apologies for the buggeration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I love this one. Love the way each verse starts with a list. Love the rhythm, love the rhyme, and cheeky lines such as this:

bluebell burst buds On the banks of the beck

made me feel I was there. Marvellous and thank you for sharing it.

Comment is about Dales Pictures (blog)

Original item by C Richard Miles

Hey Donna, welcome to Write Out Loud. I hope we can see you at some of the Manchester events when you guys are over here.

Comment is about Donna Pucciani (poet profile)

Original item by Donna Pucciani

OK Laura, me no worry, we cool.

Thanks, Harry and thanks, Yvonne.We both know what kind of poems win prizes, Harry!

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Surely this man should be much better known in the ranks of English symphonic and classical music -- I downloaded and listened to his 6th Symphony just now, and it is a beautiful moving work. Thanks for letting us know about him, M.C.!

Comment is about GEORGE LLOYD - composer (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Are poems previously written/ blogged on WoL admissable or is this for work never published online or anywhere before?Thanks
I am looking forward to visiting the shops during the exhibition, great idea, Julian.

Comment is about Poems back in the shops - apologies for the buggeration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

nah J I meant 'abortion'. :o)
as is:
'ok' at the start of a sentence, (esp a reply) in conversation.
'so' see above.
Both very much in vogue (on BBC radios 3/4/5/6) atm.
I would contribute many more but i have the world to worry abt.

Comment is about Poems back in the shops - apologies for the buggeration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

A nice personal appreciation M.C.

Comment is about GEORGE LLOYD - composer (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Steve,
Just checking back for gaffs...the last word in this blog should be `more`. (What could you expect from a guy who thought it was Plath that wrote the drowning thing?)

Comment is about Patience (blog)

Original item by STEVE RUDD

Laura,
(You`ll be pleased to know I don`t understand a word of this)

Suitably bewildering, I liked the shape of it...till the end.

Good to have heard you live on Tuesday.

Comment is about No Pansies (for Charlotte) (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Ray,
My Yvonne says: `good shot at the patios`

(and - on behalf of the Carribbean - (Barbados)

Thanks!

(By the way, If there`s a competition anywhere
send it)

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Ray/Julian - I've been to Dachau...and I found it a worthwhile thing to do. And I paid something along the way and was glad to do so...for other reasons than contempt or admiration. If there is no free lunch then I'd prefer to pay towards that which brings something positive to this country and I will continue to enjoy watching and listening to the crowds of foreign visitors that throng the streets of my city, clearly in thrall to the story and the history that UK Royalty represents. We love to knock success and fame (unlike the Yanks in their republic) but shouldn't we be taking heed of the reasons why others have such regard for what this country has to offer in this respect - and why a country like Spain decides to reinstate its own royal family?

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Auschwitz brings in the tourists. So did Bedlam.There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

So she brings in the tourists? Fine, let's set her up as a tourism company and let's make sure Ma'am PLC is not subsidised but has to make a profit or die. Just as everything else is supposed to do under the Tories; except the nuclear industry, of course, as we need the plutonium for weapons. For defence, as the War Office was euphemistically renamed.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I think the problems facing our society go far deeper than issues with class. I think class systems exist in all countries - they just manifest themselves in different ways. It's easy to point a finger at someone riding along in a gold coach with horses and footmen...

I lived in Australia for a period of time. I fondly imagined there was no class system before I went there. The class system exists in where you send your child to school - the state system being held in very poor regard. Professional people tend to send their children to private schools and really fork out for it. That's fine if you have one or two - not so fine if you have an army... And don't believe that the 'old school tie' system only operates in England - it operates abroad also.

I've come to the conclusion that life can be shit wherever you are - that inequality exists - you just have to learn to deal with it. Being happy in your own skin - learning to love yourself, to love your own accent - you can't put a price on that. Confidence is so important - if you can acquire that - give it to your kids - it will comfortably take them into any class and any society.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Superb (and packed!) open mic segment - extremely diverse and consistently high standard unlike a few other events (not WOL) I've been to in the past. Only the 2nd open mic I've been to since moving to Manchester from Wolverhampton - took me a while to find the scene but I'm bloody glad I did! Excellently gregarious hosting by Rod Tame. Definitely a monthly occurrence for me now!

Review is about Write Out Loud on 22 May 2012 (event)

Laura - perhaps you might wish to volunteer
to run stats. on how many come to the UK as a
result of historical royal connections and the undoubted popularity of Wills & Kate - the future face of the monarchy. I'll wager that
hordes of holiday-makers are drawn here by the
existence of the above and spend their money.
And you shouldn't forget the behind the scenes
ongoing connections - with HM very much the linchpin - between this and other countries that ensure the continuance of good relations
beyond "politics" - and resulting profitable trade. The Commonwealth comprises of 60(?)
countries, with others requesting membership.
They WANT HM as their "chief". And why not?
It is not sensible business..cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Erudite and entertaining...that's the way to do it! A piece of intelligent introspection that has a message for all of us, the care and control in completion there to see.

Comment is about WASP (blog)

Original item by Ian Gant

I like it, first two lines are terrific - ladies/eighties/pages.I like the squawking game bird, too.
I'd cut this bit

to pass the time, but still a believer

in monarchy;

and the prince of toytown line. But then the very mention of royalty has me reaching for knives.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

to want to be close to something and not at the same time...hope this makes sense? Think I may do some revision... Thank you Laura for encouraging me to go back, even if you are not aware that you have done so!

Comment is about The Gaze (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

World Peace.

Fact or fiction?

Steven Parker
(Lyrical Poet)

Comment is about Poems back in the shops - apologies for the buggeration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you for your comments on First Impressions, good to know the last two lines did kind of work as I hoped!

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for commenting on First Impressions. Weirdly, I hadn't actually thought of it as a romance, more something which might have been but wasn't!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Bang on Richie! You got it! Prism in Shade works brilliantly as a title, I love it!! Thank you :D and yes, that's what I meant. Without the light, all the beauty is lost - it's potentially there, but you need the light to see it :)

Ta cocker!

Comment is about Prism in Shade (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Brilliant! You got it! Prism in Shade works brilliantly as a title!! Thank you :D and yes, that's what I meant. Without the light, all the beauty is lost - it's potentially there, but you need the light to see it :)

Ta cocker!

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

Original item by Richie Muster

thanks for your recent comment, Alison - i appreciate it. dt

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Smiles

'A Prism In Shade' [that refracts no light, I take it to mean?] would be a great title for this, chuck. Not sure which version I prefer; I like the triplet form too.

Comment is about Prism in Shade (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Oh god no Ray - I've never met you in real life but from my interaction with you on here I know you don't have one iota of prejudice in you!

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Laura. I thought it were summat like that prompted the question. I just see it as I'm giving a voice to a character, same as a novelist might. I'm not Jim Davison. Mind you, I sometimes wonder how the Japanese feel about having their haikus pinched.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Thanks for reading...lacking confidence in my own writing at the moment and getting abit lost too so understand what you mean... guess I was trying to think of how quickly things take over, how carried away and how frightening this can be too... I don't know...hmmm...

Comment is about The Gaze (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

What a fantastic night! Chris and Natalie run a tight ship and their MC Glenys takes no prisoners!

The sound was quality, it was a seamless running order, lovely intimate venue (with free parking RIGHT behind it!), some brilliant poetry and music, photos diligently taken, PLUS recordings done of performances (which is something I think other venues should have) - we WILL be back. Thanks for having us, me and Bob really enjoyed it :)

Review is about ThePoetry Spoke on 28 Aug 2012 (event)

Cheers for your reply Ray. I have to admit I do sometimes, often, feel uncomfortable about people appropriating patois.

Oh, I do like the poem btw, sorry to derail - that's not like me at all ;)

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

I really liked most of the first verse, and the last two. I got lost a bit int middle.

I love the concept of the gaze though - great subject to write about.

Comment is about The Gaze (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Thanks, Greg. I think your poem is very fine. This is not so much a poem as an anthem, a national anthem, me hopes.

Laura. Writing in patios is fine in weather like dis, but when wind and rain come, me dread.

Ah, patois, me see!Ting is, I hear it in me head like dis sometimes. All de fault o' watching Rastamouse. It suit me righteous indignation.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

This is astounding - intense, fist-punching-the-air-stuff. I love it. Would love to hear this read - could you put up a recording?


Excellent.

Comment is about The Reality of What It Really Is (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

A cycling romance ... beautifully crafted. The humour of the first stanza means the very powerful final lines take you by surprise.

Comment is about First impressions (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

How do you feel about writing in patois, Ray?

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Thanks for all the comments. Laura, I'll put you down for the next New Model Army - and maybe Alison,too. Nicely-crafted poem, MC, although there are a lot of arguments you don't include. My poem needs to be worked on to make it as a poem, but I'm glad it's started something (see Ray Miller's fine offering). The royal family is at the top of Britain's pyramid, and if you think that our country's potential is hamstrung by its class system - and I do - then it all starts with them. To adapt Johnny Rotten: "England's still dreaming." On the other hand, you could argue that the royal family is the one thing that unites many of us, and that getting rid of them would expose the divisions in this country even more. I would say, you've got to start somewhere. But if it would mean precipitating another civil war - and it might - then, yes, Isobel, let them have their glittering carriages, if it matters that much to them.

Comment is about Jubilee (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman