Thanks Doug for your comment re "Persephone" it's most welcome.
Tommy

Comment is about Douglas MacGowan (poet profile)

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Thanks Cynthia for your remarks re "untitled". I forgot to leave one and once you commented upon the fact I let it lay. Give me a title and I will oblige.
Tommy.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks Martin, for your comments re "Come and See". I found the pacing difficult and several attempts were posted, even after your post l changed the end positions of 2 lines... Plagued l am already!
Tommy
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Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

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Hope the New Year is a good one for you JR.

Be well buddy.

Comment is about J R Harris (poet profile)

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As always, you reading is appreciated immensely.

(Nice sweater by the way.)

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Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

damn. 1932?
you look good for 87.
i wish i looked as debonair as you.
what has this got to do with poetry?
nothin'.
but it's the best I could do.

wink.

Comment is about Alan Travis Braddock (poet profile)

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Thank you for the support.

Reading poetry can bring together enemies - if they'd only read it right.

Your contributions are nothing less than completely meaningful and heartfelt in substance.?

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Appreciate you reading, commenting, and generally just being here and being you.

So, thanks. Much.?

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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Pitch to Publishers & Festival Organisers:
Chrys is renowned for writing and performing sequences of poems that also lend themselves to interpretation in other art-forms e.g. music and film that are then incorporated into her live performances. There are currently three such 'sets' in the repertoire, each of which can be adapted to suit Festival timeslots – with or without a Q and A. As an option extra Chrys offers a ‘Make Your Writing Speak’ workshop to help develop performance skills.
Home Front / Front Line is a set based on the Roncodora pamphlet (see above) that incorporates two film-poems produced by film-maker Kenneth Smyth with music composed and directed by Katherine Gillham. This is a moving personal story of the pacifist Mum of a territorial soldier in the second Iraq War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0F10Smx4Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bS2EihEM8

Weaver of Grass: A Hebridean Tale is a set about the iconic Hebridean grass-weaver who died in the late 1990's and is now recognised as an important 'outsider artist'. The tale has inspired numbers of art-works and Chrys' poems are now being woven into a new performance piece featuring Chrys and one of Scotland best-known harp players, Wendy Stewart. The work is offered with or without the harp settings and is followed by Ötzi The Iceman, a sequence about another grass-weaver: The Iceman uncovered in the Alps after being in deep freeze for 5000 years.
The Punkawallah's Rope
How does a white middle-class woman from the ex-Colonial power make sense of modern-day India? This sequence of poems is based on a month in the North-East of India following a reading at the Kolkata Book Festival. Like India, the sequence is colourful, moving and challenging. It can be offered as a voice alone, but also with a landscape of music and sounds created by London-based musician Ajay Srivastav.
Make Your Writing Speak
Many good writers feel that the quality of their work is lost because they don't have adequate performance skills. This two-hour workshop is offered by Chrys as an adjunct to readings and will help writers improve their skills and confidence in public readings. It draws on Chrys training as an actor and her long experience of (i) providing skill-development workshops for actors and (ii) presenting her own writing in public.

Contact email: chrys@chryssalt.com
Contact telephone
07891 803027


Awards & Prizes:
National Media Award (CRS)
New Writing Bursary (English Arts Council)
Work Development Award (Creative Scotland)
Fringe First (Edinburgh Festival).
Arts and Business Award 2012
The Burning was selected one of the Best Scottish Poems 2012.
Weaver of Grass shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Prize 2014
Research Bursary 2017 ( Open Lottery Funding)
Innovate Create Cultivate Award 2018
MBE for Services to The Arts 2014

Literary Festival Appearances include:
The Cheltenham Literary Festival, World Unite Festival (Leeds), Cheltenham Poetry Festival, The Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, The Tampere Poetry Festival, (Finland), Aye Write, The Wigtown Book Festival, The Edinburgh International Festival, Queens Park Book Festival, Islay Book Festival, The Festival of Firsts, The Wirral Poetry Festival, The Southside Festival, (Glasgow), The Aberfeldy Festival, Bath Literature Festival, The Kolkata Book Festival, StAnza International Festival, St Clémentin Bilingual Festival, (France).

Comment is about Chrys Salt (poet profile)

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Happy New Year Tommy! Re my advice to male poets, i can't remember what that was now...I'm sure I've given plenty over the years and some if it twaddle.

My viewpoint for the here and now would be.

Let's stop judging some actions of the 1970s 1980s by the standards of today. It doesnt make sense to castigte people for things that were acceptable back then - the exception to that being paedophilia, which is vile in any century.

Groping people is wrong whatever the gender or sexual orientation but to rake something like that up 20 years later with no substantial evidence of harm done. Some people need to get a grip on themselves!

Possibly a bigger response than you wanted but ive always loved the way WOL gives you the opportunity to express yourself and let off a bit of steam.

? x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Comment is about Sean Kavanagh (poet profile)

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Comment is about Cesca (poet profile)

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... And so it goes on.
Cheers Chris
Tommy

re 'Insult to Injury'
posted January 2012

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

Original item by Chris Co

Hi
House of Fun
Comments and thoughts much much appreciated.
Sad isn't it how much in life continues to disappoint, but I suppose it gives us something to write about.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

not sure what you mean.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thank you for your support Alan! I love your sample. Very strong words. What better source for poetry, or any creative work really, than personal experience and trauma. A picture is worth a thousand words!
Now, imagine a picture that is made of words...! I always love this kind of writting! Kudos!?

Comment is about Alan Travis Braddock (poet profile)

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Best of luck with your books.

Comment is about David Andrew (poet profile)

Original item by David Andrew

D.knap I sincerely apologize. My spelling is at most wrong, dyslexia can be a burden at times but I do not mean to offend with wrong grammer..

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

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Sun 6th Jan 2019 04:46

thanks for your comment on the poem
Please Come See me.

you use the word pome.
intentional?

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

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@Poemagraphic
Thanks a lot.
Happy new year...

Comment is about Kporho Raphael Oyeke (poet profile)

Original item by Kporho Raphael Oyeke

Dear MC Thanks again for your encouraging comment.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Ray Thanks for comment on my Freemo poem. It's Poem of the week on Monday so there will be a little feature. In case I didn't send you it before here's a link to my journal:
https://thehighwindowpress.com/category/poetry/

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

so nice poem...Beautiful relation
Sunday, January 6, 2019
7:59 AM

Feet dance
when we have a chance
in love to mingle
and feel as loving people

nothing matters
as surroundings offer
and echo over love
to be sincerely believed

everything remains quiet
when we let
no moments to pass
in our love stance

my soul feels your touch
to reach
an inner depth
and make the heavy breath

That is I know
and go
by simple assumption
the love is beautiful relation

Hasmukh Mehta

Comment is about Shuchi Batra (poet profile)

Original item by Shuchi Batra

Thank you Lynn for your lovely comment on 'Be Whole', I'm glad you enjoyed it. Happy New Year!

Comment is about lynn hahn (poet profile)

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Constant support, constant presence, constant inspiration.

Thanks for being here.

Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)

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I've written a love poem book with beautiful and riveting poems.


store link is: https://payhip.com/CALYPSIS

Get your copy and let your poetry soul be inspired and filled with love.

Comment is about vincent mukwevho (poet profile)

Original item by vincent mukwevho

thanks Don.
are you on your game
and on your skis?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Welcome.?

Comment is about Émilie Gaudreault (poet profile)

Original item by Émilie Gaudreault

Thank you for your thoughtful response and reading of my work.

Enjoy your stay.?

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

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Hi Ray!

Hope you have a good year! Really loved The INN- to be really nitpicking, 'barman' in the second last verse seems out of context as this is presumably the Roundheads versus Royalists period, and it would have been a tavern/Inn. Wouldn't 'landlord' be better, as barman is a more modern word?

If you tell me to mind my own business or get lost or something coarser, it's quite OK! Anyway really great poem as one expects from you.

Jennifer

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you so much.. I found your pome intriguing, I got the vibe is was a metaphor for your emotions. Absolutely brilliant.

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

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( Tommy takes Ray's coat from off of his shoulders and ushers him towards the bar while winking at Wolf)

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Happy New Year!

Sorry for the belated thank you! Your comment on 'Alone' is greatly appreciated.

Jane

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Ta Don- re 'Expressive Allowence' you are to the point and correct sir.

Tommy

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Great sample piece.

Comment is about Colin Dardis (poet profile)

Original item by Colin Dardis

Have a great New Year, Taylor, I hope to read more of your work and to get your second book soon.

Be well and remember to smile for the little things and for the day.?

Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Thanks for reading and commenting on
"The Leaving".
I am leaving now to go write another poem.
haha

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Happy New Year! ?

Comment is about Becky Who (poet profile)

Original item by Becky Who

Hannah, I'll try to catch up with more of your work this 2019. You have 'style' in writing too, which is impossible without sincerity. And ideas worth sharing.

Anya's advice is excellent.

That is an interesting photo on this bio page, obviously not a selfie. Full of 'message' it is, open to individual interpretation. Presuming it is you, of course, bold and bare breasted. Correct me if I'm wrong. And I do mean 'bold' in a most complimentary way.

4:00 A.M. can be a magical hour for new ideas to surface. And be put into action. Poets must have a source of personal 'magic', call it whatever you will.

Comment is about hk (poet profile)

Original item by hk

I want to catch up with more of your poetry this year of 2019. Your have depth, imagination and style. Time doesn't always allow, but I'll try.

Comment is about Suko Waspodo (poet profile)

Original item by Suko Waspodo

HI! Welcome to WOL. A new screen comes up at midnight, both monthly and yearly as it happens. I'll try to follow some of your work in 2019. WOL casts a world-wide net of poets and their poetry. You will enjoy the site. Thanks for translating from the Norwegian.

Comment is about nale (poet profile)

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Hi Kevin

Thanks a lot for your kind words for my poem ??

Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)

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I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your page. The art, the poems and the spoken word tracks. You are of many talents and its hard not to appreciate them as a whole.
Keep on, keeping on ?

Comment is about HayzTee (poet profile)

Original item by HayzTee

Thanks Don.
Happy New Year to ya!
(control yourself.)

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Binte, I will try to catch up with more of your work in this coming year. Chemo has limited a lot of my energy, but not all. That is a lovely picture of you. I get the vibes of a passionate woman with both grit and empathy; your eyes are strong and your mouth is soft; IMO, an excellent combination.

And I, too, like to read books from all cultures, both current and past, as a citizen of The World. But, apart from French which has lapsed terribly, I have to trust translations. I've always considered this to be a definite weakness. But, still, I make the effort.

As for genres, I absolutely hate 'spy stories of international intrigue'. I don't deny their truth (up to a point) but I refuse to sully my mind with their inherent viciousness. I choose to be ignorant of that venue of power.

And I have no clue whether that is a good thing or not.

Comment is about Binte Afroz (poet profile)

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Thanks a lot Big Sal ??

Comment is about Shuchi Batra (poet profile)

Original item by Shuchi Batra

Welcome to Write Out Loud.?

Comment is about Shuchi Batra (poet profile)

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Thanks man! Your words are appreciated and mean a lot.

Glad you enjoyed.??

Comment is about AM Cash (poet profile)

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Thanks Ray, Big Sal, Po, Taylor and Martin for getting in touch. A healthy and happy new year to you all!

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

Original item by John E Marks

I like your "live a life" poem and its message, Cassandra.

Comment is about Cassandra Magan (poet profile)

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