Brilliant, I love your early work. I think you can only get better. Subterraneanism makes me think of home and crazy cats.

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Thanks Tom, for your comments on 'down among the mad' - glad you enjoyed it.
Very much liking your work to date too.
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Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

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Hi Melanie, You are up and running, Looking forward to seeing more of your words on WOL. Winston

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I've been reading your poems, great stuff. hard and neat. 'somewhere the sun' rolls out beautifully.

Comment is about David Mac (poet profile)

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i just wanna say thanks again man ive read your comments a couple of times now and it really means a lot i even touched myself

Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

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Steve, sorry I missed Sale Waterside last Tuesday. I was in hospital.

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Thanks for your thoughts on Dead Men's Shoes, Dave.
This is one of my earlier ones from a couple of years ago. I'm still just as parsimonious though.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for your thoughts on Dead Men's Shoes, Tom. This is, indeed, autobiographical. I do have shoes that vary from size 9 to 11.

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i love the tea one..however i will not hear of slanderous tea hating comments as my blood has been infested with the little pyramid bags of love lol

Comment is about Richard Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for comment on my poem. I have to smile - your lovely little sketch is worth 1000 words! Good to see you 'engage' when writing.

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no not too obvious at all. i could only tell -i'm thirty now- because i spent my early twenties incessantly reading his stuff and trying to ape his style. it was worthless though as his voice wasn't mine. his arrogance, sheer force i couldn't muster. he does encourage a freedom though, which you have. i like your writing, keep at it. you have the movement and suprising phrase which, as your style develops, will become your 'voice'

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Hi Tom Thanks for the comment and nice to 'meet' you. I'll check out yours when I get a moment to give them some proper atention.

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Hi Greg Thanks for the comment. You never know where the next poem is coming from, but Antoinette was a gift from heaven!

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thanks tom i hope im not ripping him off too obviously though

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thanks for the comment dave.
i've been enjoying your poems- especially the 'garden 3' which are elegantly written and full of mystery.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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hi ann, thanks for the very kind words. i've been enjoying your audio poems. particularly 'salty girl.' very nice. your voice reminded me of vashti bunyan.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Good news on the South acceptance - all the more so as I believe you have to send in anonymously? and just get in on merit. You should definitely be sending your stuff out.

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Thanks for the help on East Budleigh, David. At your suggestion I've had a go at that line. As I said on the blog, the subject means a lot to me, and I've written at least three quite different versions of that poem (as well as a school essay at the age of 12!). It is at the heart of my childhood. I'll comment on yours a bit later, when I've had a chance to digest it. Btw, had a bit of good news yday, got a poem in the next edition of South. Greg

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Thank you Emma, for your lovely comments on 'Languid running wild'...
Yes, it is specific to me, but my mind is always thinking of more than one thing when I write.

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Hello again, and thank you for your comment on 'Left Turn'. x

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,

Thank you for your comments on 'my childhood rainbow'. x

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I have indeed been compared many times to Leonard Cohen, and to David Beckham. I think they've said I play football like David Beckham and write poetry like Leonard Cohen.
No, my wife says they said it the other way round.

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Hi Greg
Excellent poem of the month, perhaps because it is from an era I still recall (for the moment!). Round our way (up north, to you I suppose) they were t'shadders.
And Hank did panto? How sad; your brother’s Lepanto perhaps, he being outwith the pale of we Beatlophiles.
Had me reminiscing and chuckling anyhow. Thank you.

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hello and thank you for reading and taking time to comment x

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thank you Andy x

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thanks Ann x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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I think you should definitely go to the WOL open mic venue your friends have signed you up for John.
Being part of WOL is a journey. The poetry you are writing now is probably very different to the poetry you will be writing in 6 months or a year from now, if you stay the course. Reading other people's work (which is what WOL should also be about) affects your way of looking at things and writing. I think it makes us develop as poets.
All the best. Isobel.

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Hi John , Welcome to WOL. Hope you get some feedback and enjoy the site. Winston

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Thanks very much, Marianne, for your comment on Stuffed.

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Yes I do agree with you Isobel about not just posting but commenting on others. That's what i've always done and it's a main reason why I don't post that often - because it is wrong not to read other people's stuff and comment on it in a supportive way, and I don't always have time to do this properly. If you don't like it at all, best not to comment, I'd say - unless it;s actually offensive in some way and you feel really strongly the need to comment anyway, but it can and should be done maturely - not something everyone is capable of on here sadly, altho no doubt they consider themselves well-endowed intellectually!

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Thanks for commenting on my La dee da dee da poem. With all these wonderful site changes, it looks like I'll soon have nothing to write or complain about! Will have to start writing serious poetry then! x

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Thanks for commenting on La dee da dee da Elaine; it was a bit of silliness inspired by a very boring night in. It seems to have struck some chords though. Hope to see you around :) x

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Emma, thanks for your comments. Wonderful to hear that you have a collection published. Best wishes to you. x

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Hi Greg congratulations on being poem of the month worthy prize winner great stuff

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Hi Gus
Many thanks for your response to my comments on Raged the Wind.
Good to hear you keep in touch with Augusta. She was, in fact, something of an inspiration for me when I did Cradle, my latest blog. I tried to capture some of that sense of "oooo..err" she puts into her mysteries.

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Hi John


Thanks for the tip re Augusta... Dont worry on that score ... we are very close.

Thank you so much for the wonderful and extremely flattering comments made to my poem.

‘Raged the Wind’

The catalyst for the poem was one of trying to capture a moment before the world as we know it through history and geology actually deciding to render up the spark that began the development of life. To the dizzy heights and progress of today’s Homo sapiens in let’s say for example in Wigan today.

Once again many thanks for taking the time to read and comment I very much appreciate it.

Gus

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Hi Laura

You thought you could hear the wind... Believe me thats possible I should never go near brussel sprouts before i settle down to write an epic.

Thank you so much for the wonderful and extremely flattering comments made to my poem.

‘Raged the Wind’

The catalyst for the poem was one of trying to capture a moment before the world as we know it through history and geology actually deciding to render up the spark that began the development of life. To the dizzy heights and progress of today’s Homo sapiens in let’s say for example in Wigan today.

Once again many thanks for taking the time to read and comment I very much appreciate it.

Gus xx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Afternoon Isobel

I used to be a bouncer at Mothercare...

Thank you so much for the wonderful and extremely flattering comments made to my poem.

‘Raged the Wind’

The catalyst for the poem was one of trying to capture a moment before the world as we know it through history and geology actually deciding to render up the spark that began the development of life. To the dizzy heights and progress of today’s Homo sapiens in let’s say for example in Wigan today.

Once again many thanks for taking the time to read and comment I very much appreciate it.

Gus xx

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Hi mate, thanx for comment, good to see u in action at middleton, hope to see you tmrw and next thurs @ Butterflies, cheers Jeff

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks for your thoughts on Cradle, Tom.
I didn't know of LC's The Faith. I checked it out though and you're right - it is that poem. Apparently it's a traditional Quebec folk song. There is a lot of rhyme repetition which serves to reinforce the sense, but it isn't a villanelle.
I've had a pop at a couple of these, which I find a bit unsatisfying - something to do with the 3 line structure, I think. In fact I submitted one a couple of blogs back called "Wrong Road Roun'" - it's a bit ripe in language, though.
Anyway, once again, thanks for your thoughts.

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Hi there,
Thanks for reading and commenting on 'Almost' - always very much appreciated.
I was actually the eldest of two, and the only certainty about our finances was that there was absolutely no money for anything - hence the cupboard under the table was the house for the paper dolls I'd drawn myself.
Obviously the poem not quite working :)
Cx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks Dave, for reading and commenting on 'Almost' ... very much appreciated.
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Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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It's more than a social - it's a community, a caring one. It's your call though. x

Comment is about Kath Hewitt (poet profile)

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Isobel,

Thank you once again for reading and taking the time to comment.

RE tudor, it's a social event and i dont really do social ( ask steven kenny lol) but i appreciate the invite x

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hi Dave and thank you for reading x

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Hi
thanks again for reading and commenting x

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Hi
thanks again for reading and commenting x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Elaine,

Thank you for reading and commenting on my childhood rainbow poem.

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Thanks for your comments on Obit. Your support on the night was much appreciated. Glad you think it stands up to be read over too. Quite a surprise really as it seemed almost throw-away when I wrote it and only picked it out to read when I was up there on the night. The grape spoke, not I!

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Dave, many thanks for your comment on Obit. Quite agree - I felt it was a bit throw-away but got some great compliments on it when I did it at the Tudor. Feel like I am tuning my ear into what works best in that forum but still a long way to go! :-)

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