What fun...almost worth framing.
If you despair of trying to please those who print, go for self-publication. It costs, but you have the reward of
knowing you have your own conviction of purpose to fall
back on - as well as the product itself waving two fingers
as it were to an unkind and unappreciative publishing world.
Happy Christmas!

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Is there an island somewhere called "critical acclaim?" If so we should all go there before it's too late. By the way Harold Wilson's wife Mary probably had stuff published and printed - but that's a sort of fame....

Very good that you shared this however painful!! Ray

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i dont mind them really. its hard not to read in to them though! i had a cracker the other day though. im going to be the featured poet on poetrykit early next year. woop and joy!

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:D :D

Hahaa - rejections are all part of it mate. I keep a spreadsheet of what I've sent and where to, and the rejections tab is massive compared to the acceptances. I confess to swearing occasionally at the rejectors thinking them simpletons and one day, ONE DAY they will be sorry ;)

I think my favourite one is the simple:

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

kind regards, everyone

:D

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thanks guys! i was just pondering the pro's and cons of being, as it were, a poet and i think the big con (for me anyway) is how personally i take the rejections (foolish in the extreme). thankfully i react with the same positive emotional scale when i am accepted.

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I must say I haven't yet received quite this level of rejection just yet Stu, but I found this more than a little entertaining. So much so as just getting over a cold I had a coughing fit. Nice one.

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