cathy!

you were AMAZING at Inside Out yesterday. I thought the whole evening was a wonderful mix of excellent performers and it was a joy to perform there. I love how your poems so easily mix very funny lines with sincere and deeply moving raw emotion. Your work is so, so enjoyable, celebratory and clever- absolutely excellent. please keep me up to date with where else your performing as i'm looking forward to seeing you on stage again

:)

d

x

Comment is about Cathy Crabb (poet profile)

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Do you ever write trad metre-and-rhyme poems, Catherine?

Comment is about Catherine Smith (poet profile)

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Hello john
thanks for your lovely comment on my poem 'permiss my cry'
it's one of those that probably says too much about me!
:)

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Cate, I removed my very personal comment from "Sunflowers' only because I thought it interfered with your poem. I should have posted it here, under your PP.

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Dear Michele,
I posed the question on Camus as a humorous allusion to existentialism....in which the importance of rhyme would maybe have been darkly appraised...I did not mean to offend..I speak fluent French and am a lover of French Literature and film ..I beg your pardon if my attempt at humour was maladroit. I appreciate your work and am amazed at your ear for tune in the English language.Pardonnez moi.
Steve Smith

Comment is about Michèle Vassal (poet profile)

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Stuff can cause a lot of bother... true...

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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The Ted Hughes oem is a little irreverant... I wonder someday will someone do a Tomás Ó Cárthiagh poem? lol

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"Four Magnolia Walls" tells us that people should be just people, not trying to be sophisticated or whatever...

Comment is about Rachel Pantechnicon (poet profile)

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I liked "Journal Heart Attacks"

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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"Breif Encounters" is very enjoyable read, Andy. How have you been keeping?

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"Old Woman in a Corner" gives an abrupt ending that can give so many meanings... it could be a oem on the Holocaust... the boots being the Nazis arriving, or it could be about current times where junkies arrive to rob the house... such a dark overcurrent to this... I like it...

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Would Joyce or Beckett?

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Dear Michele,
Thank you for your comments on my work...I read 'Love in Corca Dhuibhne' and was moved by it -well-crafted too. As a french poetess , could you answer the question "if Camus had written poetry, would it have rhymed?"
Steve Smith

Comment is about Michèle Vassal (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, Thank-you for reading and commenting on Shhh ..... as always, your comments are much appreciated.
Cx

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Hi Ian, great work mate, I've been up scout road too! You should publish some more of your work, hope to see you soon Jeff

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hi cynthia,
thanks for your comments on 'carpe diem'. I'm glad you noticed the slight typo-though it's funny to think that it works as well with 'cease'!
Cat x

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Hi again Cynthia, thanks for your two recent comments. The Ibiza one was obviously just a bit of fun about someone I know well (no nods and wink wink but theres a possibility you may know her too!!!!!!} Your second comment on Sunflowers was much appreciated. Luckily I was on line when your first comment went up before you edited it, and feel privileged you shared a bit of your personal life with me, if only for the moment.
Cate xx

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Many thanks for your comment on my poem. I have had a good read through yours - you have a varied style.

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Sharp comments on our society, crafted impeccably. I like your stuff!

Comment is about stephen smith (poet profile)

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You know me well Gus - I'm all for love not war - that shag jag sounds rather good fun...

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Hi Cynthia

thank you again for taking the time to read and make comment

steve

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Hi Rodney

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment

spent many an hour on hospital hill

i know the town well

steve

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Hi Nicky,
thanks for your fulsome comment on my poem 'Kinsella.' I was thrilled with it.

Janet.x

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Hello Val, thank you for your kind comments about Rod Break.

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Thank you for your very kind words about my work. Warmed the cockles of my heart!

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Thank you for dropping by...Yes you can hear me read(with Brendan Ring on uilleann pipes and clairseach), check the audio clip and also one myspace page!

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Hi Val, thaks for your comment on My Gramps. He was very special to me.
Cate xx

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Absolutely beautiful haunting work Michele. It interweaves so well with the Gaelic music which I love. I remember visiting Ireland many years ago in a folk band on tour, and we never paid for a drink all the time we were there!!..... the Irish so love their music and your poetry has the lilt and flow which this music accompanies so well. just love it.
Cate xx

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Hi Michele: I'd like to hear you READ your work, and the addition of pipes and harp would be a treat.
From David - poet and folkie

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Hi Marianne,

thanks for your time and considered comment on my poem 'silence'

steve

steve

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Hi John

thanks for your time and considered comment on the poem 'silence'

steve

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Hi Anthony
Thanks for your comment, and I can honestly say that I wasn't upset by it, but it was a bit like being back at school, where I was originally put off literature. If you read my Biog. it says that I write for my own pleasure .....
What's written in Time Flues is exactly what I wanted to say, at the time it was written. Whether it's good, bad or indifferent, it's what I wanted to say.
I shall leave the site to those more serious poets, and those desirous of improving.

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Thanks Rodney for your comments.
Bernie

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Winston, I passed through Hebdon Bridge last week, and so wanted to stop for a bit, but the three-year-old had other plans. The area was beautiful, quite unique, almost "Tolkein-y' Goodness knows when I can explore a bit. Such surroundings must influence your poetry.

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Bienvenue à WOL Nicky!
Love your poem 'Stuff'...
Brilliant the way it's written : )

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Thank you Jeff for taking the time to read and comment on 'Deprived'... much appreciated.

Your poem 'Someone in Particular' put a smile on my face... funny : )

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Thanks for your comments Anthony. Loved Edge - not dissimilar themes really. Must get round to reading more of yours.

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Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

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Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

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Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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steve thanks mate for your comments on "Barricade " and "Stillborn"
Bernie

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Hi John thanks for your comments mate.
Bernie

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Spot on mate it is Thai, lived there for some years.
Bernie

Comment is about David Franks: Walkabouts Verse (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment and would love to come to festival but would need directions

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Hi Winston

thanks again for taking the time to read and make comment -


circuit short mesh is intended ; )

steve

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ps. The tenet ends 'for tomorrow we may die' - easy to make assumptions - there are thousands of famous quotes I've never heard of.

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Far from it! LOL - Glad you liked my poem - it was Alfie you liked best last time - will get you loving them all one day - it's often all in the delivery. xx

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Hello again!
Just wanted to say thanks for the time that you have spent reading and critiquing my poem 'No love lost here'.
It's amazing to see how different and punchier (!) it feels with the edit. I really like the way it has been edited too-it flows better. i'm at an open mic in Manchester on thurs so I'm gonna get practising!
Cat x

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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hi rodney
thanks for your comments i'm alive and well ;)

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hi there jeffers!
thanks for the comments on the poems and keep up the great work :)

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