I love your bio Neil..., Thanks x

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Cheers for your commiserations ... sounds like a song by Ken Dodd?! ... on For My Brother, John.

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Thank you for your comments on 'that house' and I do agree - it makes the world of difference. MM -xx

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thanks for your comments on 'that house'; a very perceptive reading. M

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thanks Winston- West Kirby marina-Tommy

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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'wake up-get out of bed drag a comb across your head...' Lennon/McCartney
Tommy

Comment is about Edwyna Beaumont (poet profile)

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Andy, thank you for adding some comments to Retrospect, it is really appreciated.

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Hi Cynthia,

Confirmed the venue booking on Friday, and we're all set for the OpenMind Festival poetry day OpenMind:OpenVoice.

Here's the schedule:

Day 2: OpenMind:OpenVoice


Location: An Outlet, Dale Street, Manchester, M1 2HG.

Date: Friday 12th August.

Time: 6pm till 11pm.





Poetry and performance.




6pm: Anna McCrory

6:15pm: Cynthia Buell Thomas

6:30pm: Josh Coates

6:45pm: Dominic Berry

7pm: GrIm

7:15pm Cathy Bryant

7:30pm: Break.

8pm: OpenMind Collective presents: Infinite Perspectives, sci-fi theatre piece

9pm: Another break.

9:15pm Rod Tame

9:30pm: Chris Dommett

9:45pm: David Viney

10pm: Paris Morel

10:15pm: Yusra Warsama

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks so much for your kind comment on "Les Mots qui Rient" (Laughing Words). I found it a joy that you appeciate the sonnet-form. So many don't. In fact because of the seemingly rigid structure the sonnet seems to have become passé, which I regard as a tragedy. I think it is one of the most powerful forms of poetic expression ever to be created. Just the meter makes me go weak at the knees :-) Honestly, I think I belong in the era of the troubadours and early sonneteers!

Take care and thanks again for the contact.

Alan

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Hi huni, hope you enjoyed your jollies.
I wont be no, Wigans a little far I may get lost and never found again lol.

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WARNING! (there may be elements of mirth in these comments)Good afternoon Ann-phew! glad you are well.Just that I was concerned with it being your annual holiday break in Blackpool and I had this 'orrible vision of you(the vision I mean not you)poncing down the prom in your cross-dressing outfit sucking on a toffee apple when a sultry sultan swept you up onto his winged camel and flew you off to some mystical island and there enforced you into the remake of the Frys Turkish delight ad.as for forgetting your passwords-do the same as you would with your financial details-give them to a CLOSE friend to mind on your behalf-but don,t expect to make withdrawals too soon after-tee hee...did I ever tell you I,m insane? read of thee soon one hopes-enjoy your break-Mr W.xx

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Winston
I see you've mistaken my submissions for poetry! Not a common error.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hey hey Amyyyyy - soz for late reply, been on me jollydays doing as much f*ck all as poss hehe ;D

Ta for comment on Write for Revolution - us Northern girls gotta stick together eh? See ya soon - don't suppose you're coming the WOL night at the Tudor in Wigan on Thursday are ya? xx

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Hi Winston, thank you, re; Svātantrya :)
am ok thanks,just trying to get my head around some major things which have happened this year,
how's life in Heb? Deb (darn that unintentional ryhming thing..)

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Hi,
Thanks for your kinds words, Anthony. x

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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My first poetry reading at Festival of Firsts in Hoylake it was great, i feel now iam hooked on reading so going to look for my next gig

Comment is about Chris Lawrence (poet profile)

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Anthony, many thanks for your kind comments on Retrospect. It's always good to hear from yourself, valued critique.

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thank you Anthony..and in turn, your comments have given me an idea...so thank you twice
deb :)x

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Hi Cynthia - grateful for your comments on Sugar Boats - there was actually a shipping firm called Sugar Lines and a boat named the MV Crystal Gem in particular around which the events are based. Not that the poem is autobiographical in any way - I mean what young man in his right mind would allow himself to be used in that way (tee hee)

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Thanks for the comments on Senlac Hill. An enormous historical "what-if" indeed. We probably wouldn't have the richness of language we do, poaching from the French our posher words. The strongest influences would on culture would have remained germanic and scandinavian. And we might have fragmented back to smaller kingdoms like Danish-led Northumbria in the North and Saxon-led Wessex in the South ie no England.

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Thank you, Mr Keane. I will make a real effort to check your work out also. I read your bio'. You might also enjoy my poem called 'Beloved' - not too far back.

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Hi elaine, again your comments are very much appreciated. It is sad of course and not the path I hope anyone has to follow. Yes, its the medical term for liver spots. The bit you have highlighted seem to have a good rhythm when at a reading so I have given it a few outings recently. The stones in the trifle i will leave to the imagination. Win x

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Elaine, thanks for your glowing analysis of mish-mash. Am pleased with my poems of late. This one a particularly grim episode. Win x

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Hi Andy, good to see you as ever last night. Thx for your comments on mish-mash. I think it went ok in Glasto. Well, people were looking worried and uncomfortable so I will take that as having an effect! Win x

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Hi There, Welcom to WOL. Winston

Comment is about RME Thornhill (poet profile)

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Hi Andy - thank you for commenting on The Water's Edge - clearly you have a bond with waterways and coastal scenes. Much obliged.

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Thank you for your comments on Water's Edge John - much appreciated.

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Hi - many thanks Anthony. B

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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I really like that poem Flashback ...

Hard to believe that people have now been flying for a century, so a sky unsullied by planes is only a folk memory - in this part of the world at least.

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hi Ann-just popped on to say hope all is well with you.Best regards.S.W.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi David re: The Water's Edge - how apt your view about the changing weather moods of UK - many thanks for commenting.

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Cheers Zach!

Comment is about Kieren King (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel - I have but it's at home.. Will blog it when I get back 2nite from Guitar and Verse or do it first thing tommorrow morning! x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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If you've got one ready to go I'll include it on the list... x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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au contraire Shirley..thank you for posting and reading your emotive Wild Wolf poem...you got me thinking and writing..haven't written anything much since my mum died, so thank you for awakening a subject close to my heart : ) Debx

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Hi - many thanks for your kind comments. B

Comment is about Penny Pepper (poet profile)

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Hello Isobel, thank you for your always welcome comments. Have been awash with work for ages now and when not, no inspiration at all. Have been watching WOL a lot though. Have got a few days off now so will have a good trawl through the recent stuff. The two pieces that I put on today have been bubbling under but not tidied up until today. Regards, as always. Always like reading your work and will comment this week.

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I wouldn't want you to rank these in order of greatest loss!

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Yes indeed Greg. We certainly wouldn't have words like "defensive", "indiscipline" and "congestion"! Nor probably a unique class system which pre-dates the Marxian concept of an industrial one.
And indeed, probably not one John COOPEY (couper = to cut).

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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thanks for your comment on my poem Elaine. I wish i could write at will though ... not just when the words hit the page

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Thank you for such positive feedback. really glad I joined Write Out Loud, it's brilliant for keeping up to date with when open mics and gigs are on and for discovering more poets.

I've now got some videos of my performances on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/greenellenjess)

Jess x

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Thanks Greg, Yes One Winston to another. Played it in the car the other day and that line inspired the whole piece. Win x

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Hi
Thank you for your comment re daddys girl. I did use 'wet bedsheets' in a poem called My childhood rainbow', though, i dont get the numb heroes? Sorry if i'm just being dense lol.

kath x

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Thanks for your comment on my poem 'The little things destroy us' and your suggestions right hence a new stanza which works so much better.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi Charlotte
Thanks for your comment it was very kind of you to say so.

Comment is about Charlotte Henson (poet profile)

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Hi Amy;

Thanks for the comment over 'Summer is Here'. After the last few days, would totally agree with you, but upon going into work this am - the grey clouds are back out - has summer ended? lol.

See you soon

Andy n x

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Hi Amy, welcome to WOL and lovely meeting you tonight, hope to see you again soon. Just had a quick flick through your poems, great writing, will have a closer look when its not so late (not long back after gig).

Quality stuff tho, look forward to hearing them out loud! Anyway glad you enjoyed the gig and like what we do thanx Jeff ps, not sure what happened to the comment you put on my work!

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Hi Ann, re new members blog , your wish is my command. Win

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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your poetry is
simply wonderful and i
can't quite get enough.

here i am leaving
haiku comments all because
i want to. problem?

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

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thanks Winston :)

and aha fair enough Jeff xD indeed you will see me. at last. it's not as if i've been meandering around the possibility of Guitar N Verse for months now ^^;

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