Hi Steve. Thought you did a great job at the Tudor last week. Darren did a lovely review in blog format but for some reason removed it quite quickly so you probably never got to read it.
Hope to see you soon - not sure if I can make the Bards - no-one to go with and a bit under the weather at the moment.
Queen Isobel xx

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Thanks man i wrote 'at least we tried' when i was about 15, some of my worst work but i thought i'd just put it up anyway because it was harrassing me.

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Forgot to say when commenting on the lovely drawing that I like the poem too (the one with the camel). The well is at Madron in Cornwall, though the poem was inspired by Alsia Well, my fave well, but didn't have a picture. But I love all wells.

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Hi Ann
Now why did I have a bet with myself that you'd be the first to comment.
I just fancied an antidote to the usual claptrap about Xmas

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Nope! Still up. Sounds like I might have got more than you though - I didn't get up 'til 4!
Cx

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Whatever the stance I think she got a hole in one Gus.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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You are so right cate... but suddenly I realised I was only 12 and what do boys do... sorry... love Christmas really ..
just don't like all the sticky sweetness ..

Thanks again

Gusxx

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Hi Emma - thanks for printing your poem - it will do there. For future reference, all you have to do is go back to your original blogged poem, edit it and put WOLOP.nov or whatever month we are on, in the tag section, then press update. Your poem was nominated by another poet - I just collect the emails from people and publish the results - it was a good poem though. Hopefully you may like to get involved on the voting side next month - I am trying to drum up support. All you have to do is let me know your favourite December poem by 6th Jan. My email is farmoorgirl@yahoo.co.uk. I will send a reminder out on blogs beforehand though. Merry Christmas. x

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Hi Isobel! I just got your message about a poem I wrote called HUMAN. do you want me to enter it for a competition. wow! it brilliant that its thought so highly of. let me know asap. sorry im late getting back to you. my internet access isnt regular.Take care. em

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Many thanks, Cate, I am glad you enjoyed Camel and I. My children are grown up so I am resorting to my niece to read it to. My daughters friend, Grace, has produced a few illustrations for me. Your comments are always vaued. Best, Jane

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Thanks for reading Camel and I, Ann. My daughters best friend, Grace, does me the pics for my poems. I love them, too. I enjoyed reading Sacred Well recently and wondered if it was Mother Shiptons cave, Naresborough.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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I love your writing. I'm not much cop at lit-crit so I'm never sure exactly why things grab me, but your writing does, it makes me sigh.
Rachel
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Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

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Thanks very much for taking the time to have a lok at and comment on my stuff. It's very much appreciated.
Cheers
Rachel
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Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Ann, I hope you keep writing. You have an unique view and voice, methinks.
Michael

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Seconded, thirded, fourthed and fifthed. Wonderful debut. As someone once said to me...'Now, you either have to write more or travel further!'

Excellent stuff.

: )

Jx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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hi steve hope your life is on the up ... always a pleasure to read your work, sorry to hear that things have been a bit upside down....I can identify. sian X

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Rachel... Can I just say that 'Dad' is stunning. Looked at it late last night and it'sstill in my head. Brilliant. Win

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Hi Rachel, Welcome to WOL. Enjoy... You havemadequite an impression as a new member. winston

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Hi Alison, wow, thanks so much for the comment. it's so wonderful to get positive feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I can't wait to have a look at your work,
Thanks again,
Rachel
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Hello Rachel, a very warm welcome to WOL. Loved reading your poems. 'Spring Cleaning' has literally blown me away, but not like an 'autumn wind', more like a breeze of incredible inspiration! What a fantastic imagist you are. It's like seeing a short film inside my head as the message reveals itself through your words.
You're one to look out for!

Admiringly, Ally ;o)

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Hi Anthony, thanks for the welcome and the comments! I was hugely impressed with myspace, the imagery is almost tangible...does that make sense? Plus the sense of warmth and love....gorgeous!
Cheers
Rachel
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Hi Ann, Thanks very much for your comment on The Balloon, I have just had a quick look at your poems and really enjoyed them, I was moved to tears by Bereavement, it is so raw. You communicate that pain so well.
Cheers
Rachel
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Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks very much, you lovely people. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed (in a nice way)at the comments. I'm unsure as to the etiquette yet (hey, that rhymed!) so I'll post a heartfelt thanks on here and then settle down to have a gander at your profiles and thank you 'personally' when the kids are asleep.
Cheers,
Rachel
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Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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What absolutely brilliant juxtaposition of tragedy and comedy in dad.

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hi Rachel-no need to say anything more than-FANTASTIC-poetry, absolutely loved 'Dad'what an inspiration you are-thanks-Stef

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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I enjoyed reading your poems too. The one about the balloon - a tiny catastrophe from childhood! (I still yearn for an old toy dog that my grandmother found in the street and gave to me, only to have my mum throw it away in case it was dirty - maybe there's a poem in there too.) Really liked the one about your dad. The nicotine starfish - great image.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on my poem.

I've decided to start a campaign to bring 'gambol' back into common usage.

I'm gambolling off now.

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on my poem - glad it amused you

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Rachel.

And welcome to WOL. I thoroughly enjoyed your three sample pieces. You obviously have an eye for fine detail, and perhaps more importantly, the ability to convert your observations into very readable and rewarding imagery. I look forward to seeing more.

Hope you enjoy the site. It's generally a friendly interesting and very diverse place.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Martin.

Riverview is a very pleasant evening and you have attracted a good variety of talent. Congratulations. May 2010 see continuing success and growth.

Well done too on producing 'Wirral's Winter Words'. A very nice book and a great achievement.

Comment is about Martin Nelson (poet profile)

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Hi Martin - thank you for reading my poem. I appreciate comments like this as I have not been writing very long, so try to take these on board. AND I have never read in public - yet! Hope to, although I live in the west country and there's not much that I've found, esp as I have NO CAR. Actually, when I read this poem out loud (to me and my cat) I think it sounds OK. The repetition (lost glove) which someone else commented on was to try and emphasise the presence of a mute insignificant object that just keeps somehow calling you back to pay it some attantion. Maybe it doesn't want to be a lost glove. Maybe one day I'll venture oop north and read it to you! ;-) Or are you in Wales?

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Hola foxy Lady heh heh ;-) I am turning an idea over in my mind, just missplaced my Sorcerer's pen for the moment..... watch this space ;-))
TC XX

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Good Evening Jeff
I do hope you are warmer now after reading Voyeur.

it seemed to make quite a few of the older geration a little hot under the collar, but hopefully no trouble for you.

Thank you once again for your encouragement and comment
Augusta x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Good Evening Andy
When I stop writing I know it's complete.


I have tried many times to expand poems and ended up with over written and over thought waffle.

Mostly after red wine and an argument with a partner.

Thank you so much for your encouragement and taking time to read.

Augusta x.

Comment is about Andy Williamson (poet profile)

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Oh! Tommy
Offer me a weekend in Paris or Rome and I'll melt and with just a little coaxing would reach boiling point...

Augusta x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thank you for comments re; Hunter's Moon' Sometimes on wooded walks I feel this enormous history of legend and myth... and you are right it is quiet chilling, Like the Teddy Bears say... 'Don't go down into the Woods Today
Thank you again so very much for your encouragement and comments.

Augusta x

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Yes indeed, a maiden fair, a virgin , but not for long I suspect, poor girl.
Thank you for reading Ann
Augusta x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,
thanks for your comment on my poem 'Qercus Robur.' and noticing the typo. (bows = boughs)
Mucho appreciated.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Dave,
thanks for your comment on my poem, 'Quercus Robur.'' Appreciate your honest opinion. I did want a sturdy feel to the whole so decided to restrict the flow by using a syllable count. I have a tendency towards over-flow otherwise.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Andy, thanks for commenting on 'Quercus Robur.' Very much appreciated.

I think i missed and haven't heard you read ''Final Appointment'' and ''Rebel'' poem, both of which i love but particularly the former.

Hopefully see you soon,
Starlight.x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Ann,
thanks for your recent comments on my stuff.
They're really appreciated.

Love ''The Dray.'' aand ''Take me''.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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i love your Epiphany Gaia very well written and full of vivid imagery that i like very much. youre very good at writing:)

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, thanks for liking The English Teacher. I wrote the first version of it a couple of years ago when I heard that he had died, in his late nineties. The regular alcohol intake seemed to have done him the world of good. Greg

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia. Thanks for your kind comments on The English Teacher. I see you're a teacher yourself and I agree, I don't think Ofsted would have thought much of him! But he was the one teacher at my school that inspired me. Not exactly The HIstory Boys, but that kind of thing. As a result I switched to English in the sixth form and started writing poems while I should have been revising for my O-levels. Greg

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Ann, you have been busy. Many thanks for reading do many of my poems and extra thanks for commenting so positively.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on the Tiger poem. Personal problems are a misery for the people involved and privacy is also important.

Both of these things are altered by the involvement of the individual in their own use of their character in the promotion of their business. I have put a brief reply in these terms on my blog.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment John. The soundscape is my son's work and he happened to do it at the same time I wrote the poem and I thought they might go well together. They do, in part, but I think I need a rewrite of the words and he'll take my vox sample and do something a bit better then my poor attempt.

Not sure about gamble instead of gambol - is it really archaic? Perhaps my alleged obsession with sheep has something to do with it :(

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Here here to your comment re gangs! I think gangs are nasty things. Since I joined WOL I have been made to feel welcome, and it's a new home for me, a new poet. Then suddenly there's this feeling (from the old guard?) that maybe i won't be belonging here after all - too many poets!!! How many poets can you get on the head of a pin? (Or how many poets can change a light bulb maybe!) lol af xxx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thank you for your comments Gaia - I love your stuff, it's so good to see you here again - I've got your book!!! xxx

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Cynthia.

I understand your concern about privacy. Every private person has an entitlement to it, but if you have built a career worth a billion dollars on the basis of your public profile, and your personal characteristics are used as part of that income generation, then your life has been exposed to comment by your own decision. Tiger Woods' personal problems are also the problems of Tiger Woods the multi million dollar corporation. The two things are inseparable and that was his choice.

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