Hi Isobel - thanks for your comment over End of Summer II and I'm pleased you like it - always pleased when you comment - this one of my favourites must admit and there is certainly other pieces to come in this sequence (Currently aiming for 4 or 5)..

Hope you are good. Maybe see you soon at either Salford or Tyldesley maybe? xx

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Thanks for your comments on Bagni di Lucca, Isobel. It's true, my stuff does teeter on the edge of prose a lot of the time. This one still needs a bit more work on it.

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As I've said to Ann, my first suit for eleven years. Yes we had a lovely day and the weather was stunning too. That's them all gone now, all four!

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I hope you returned home with more than half a car!

Thanks Isobel for finding my Chanel original :)

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Hi Isobel;

Thanks for the comment over 'My hometown'.. Oddly enough the last line was the line I was most worried about, but that's the one everybody is loving so clearly I was my own worse judge there - lol.

Hope you are good

See you soon x

Andy N x


P.S. - The piece is about my love affair with my hometown (Stretford).

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Thanks for your thoughts on Bastard Dog, Isobel. I await the time when there is a comment on one of Billy Collins poems saying that his work is very reminiscent of John Coopey's.

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Thanks for the comment on The Ad and The Id, much appreciated.

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..hello Isobel..thanks for your encouraging comment...cheers ..chris.

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Hi Isobel! Thanks for leaving a message and your kind invitation - it sounds like a really good day which I would have enjoyed. Sorry I won't be able to make it - my mother-in-law's in intensive care in hospital at the mo in a coma so we will be visiting her. I haven't been over to Wigan for a bit because I cycled from Land's End to John o'Groats earlier in the summer and was working loads and practising for it. I hope to get over again before the year is out - I really enjoy hearing you all and it's a top night out! - hopefully when she is better. Hope you have a great walk and the weather stays fine for you. Take care, love Stevexxxxxxxxx

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Thank you so much for your kind comments on "The Patient". It is hard for people to understand addiction, and unfortunately there is a stigma that goes along with it also. People don't realize it is a disease, like diabetes, and often hereditary.

I'm trying to catch up on the comments people left on "The Patient". It was encouraging to get some responses.

Thanks for listening over the last week or so. I appreciate you taking the time. I also need to catch up on reading and commenting on others' work and I promise to read yours too!

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Thank you so much Isobel for you kind comments about For my parents.

I've added something on my blog which may answer your question about whether or not writing helped :) x

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Hi Isobel,

No doubt you're right re the mindless thuggery and looting, "free stuff" seems to be the prime motivation. What I was getting at is that the law and morality/ethics should apply equally to all, whether you are a police officer, tabloid journalist, politician, investment banker or a disaffected youth.

Cameron spoke yesterday about bringing people to justice and fixing our broken society; his comments were aimed at the recent looters and arsonists. They could just as easily have applied to all those in the aforementioned categories, but were purely aimed at the recent troublemakers. As was said before, the latest spate of wrecking has given the Tories "a good day to bury bad news." Now the government is focused on punishing the perpetrators of last week's misdemeanours, and taken the heat off his cosy chums in the press and banking sectors. The cost, according to the Grauniad, of the riots is somewhere around £100 million. The bankink crisis/bailout cost the country an estimated £7 trillion - and no one was prosecuted. Kind of puts it in perspective for me. The motivation is exactly the same - pure, undiluted and unrestrained greed.

I see so much that's similar to the organisation I work for. The shop-floor workforce are scrutinised and disciplined for the slightest mistake, yet higher managers get away with the most monumental cock-ups, scams and totally unacceptable behaviour. We will never be an equal society until the same set of rules is applied to everyone.

That's a rather more long-winded explanation of the point I was trying to make - and I'm not disagreeing with you at all!

(I'll shut up now, I'm beginning to remind myself of someone I'd rather not be compared to!)

Regards,

A.E. X

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Thanks so much for your encouragement. When I was here last year, even with critiquing others, I never quite connected. You're right though, it really is the way to get people to read your work.

Hang in there - something will come to you! I was having a dry spell myself and was getting a bit worried. I’m also into photography and usually go back and forth between that and writing anyway but I seemed to be uninspired for a little too long poetry-wise. Then one day, I as looking at one of my photos and heard the first few lines of a poem go through my head. So I started writing when inspired by my photography. I’ll be posting those but at the moment, I seem to have hit another block. I guess you never know where your inspiration will come from – but life sure does have a way of eventually sending you something to write about!

And thanks very much for taking the time to read and comment on “Waiting For A Star To Fall”. Very much appreciated!

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Hi Isobel - thanks for writing me back! I very much agree that page poetry is from the heart and I can't write it any other way than for myself, which is why I post everything I have on each site. In my case also, it's definitely not commercial.

I do look forward to feedback, both to learn and grow but more to connect. It is a great privilege to me when something I write about my life's experiences resonates with someone else.

I've been on 3 other sites and one was a tremendous experience. Unfortunately, one bad apple spoiled the whole barrel so since then, I've been looking for another site but haven't found the feedback, connections, and evolving friendships that I experienced on that site. Sometimes what I run into is a site with a well established "clique". Sometimes, like I mentioned, I run into other poets that just "don't get" my writing or are uncomfortable with it. Obviously I miss it or I wouldn't be blathering on and on wasting your time! That comment in your Biography just struck me as ironic since it's similar to what has been going on somewhere in the back of my mind lately.

I like what you said about the social interraction that happens...how life finds its way into our poetry and discussion...and how we share it. I guess to sum it all up, the key is finding the right place.

I think it's really cool that you're on stage and wish you the best of luck. I admire the courage it takes to do that - good for you!!

Lisa

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Hi Isobel - I was reading what you wrote in your Biography and it struck me that poets wanting others to read their work may need to think about their target audience (the people on each poetry site) and tailor which pieces they post accordingly. Or just realize that some sites have like-minded people that just "don't get" what one has written. I've found that to be true since I've posted on more than one site. Where one group will celebrate you, another will almost ignore you. Ironic, yes?

"Just my thoughts for the day...."

Hope all is well,
Lisa

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Hello Bella, thanks for your comments on Dreaming in Turkish. I do sometimes dream in Turkish which is where the title came from although not all of the poem. Hope you are well

John x

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Isobel, I'm glad you enjoyed Apparition and thank you for your very generous comments.

Graham.

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Thanks for your reflections on 'Mighty Love' and you are right, although not written for my child it is very maternal - I wrote it for an uncle and I was feeling very protective and maternal towards him (wanted him to know he was not alone in what he's going through). M xx

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Well spotted Isobel. It is a reposting. I put it up for Cynthia so that she could compare it with my Whiskey poem.

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Hi Isobel;

thanks for the comment over Ticket to Ride.

Glad you like it.

Must admit, it's one of my more recent favourites, but as always when I blog I was worried people wouldn't get what I was writing about.. lol

Hope you are good and see you soon (I'm off the scene now for a few months - having a well deserved break)

Cheers

Andy N x

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hi Isobel...mmm was in a soppy mood.. :))

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thanks for the comment there but blind or not, we are just varying shapes and forms, and I'd rather be ugly than blind

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Hi Isobel

Thanks for commenting on The Changeling. I'm not there yet, it's something I've been wondering about - what affect will these changes have? And interestingly, each time I've performed it, women have spoken to me and answered some of my questions :)

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Only naughty in my head, Isabel.
And anyway, I can't walk in heels that high.

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Thanks for your comments on "No Better Ending".
Yes the audio wording is better - I'll remember it if I perform it.
As for me doing hilarious - Piggies wasn't meant to be hilarious, it was.....
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Is your "new" photo your "Hmm, now where DID I put that vodka?" look?

Very pensive . . . :)

A.E. x

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thanks for your comments on 'that house'; a very perceptive reading. M

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Hi Isobel - I have but it's at home.. Will blog it when I get back 2nite from Guitar and Verse or do it first thing tommorrow morning! x

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Hello Isobel, thank you for your always welcome comments. Have been awash with work for ages now and when not, no inspiration at all. Have been watching WOL a lot though. Have got a few days off now so will have a good trawl through the recent stuff. The two pieces that I put on today have been bubbling under but not tidied up until today. Regards, as always. Always like reading your work and will comment this week.

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We might need to improvise - bending over is not as easy as it once was.

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"PERVY!!! PERVY???". That was me trying to be sexy.
I did actually write it on a train - very uncomfortable

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I'm afraid not Isobel, I usually go straight for the culture page, funnies, and movies.... hahaha
Thanks for reading and commenting. I shall now hunt down your WW1 poem. Cheers.

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Isobel, thank you for your comment on baby Jade. Yeah I have learned to live with it and poetry is very therapeautic indeed! xxx

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Hi Isobel

I believe the bastard is still alive albeit minus one eye. Apparently had a nasty accident with a bungee cord ( roof rack kind ) that left him with a cycloptic look!! Shouldn't really find it funny, but i really do lol

k x

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I so appreciate your comments, Isobel. The fact that you read it and came back to re-read and comment further was very thoughtful and of course I am glad it was interesting / enjoyable enough for you to do that. XXX

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Hello Isobel,

Thanks for the lovely comment on the 'Dettol' poem. Yeah, I think you've trumped me with the Big Bad Dom advert. Domestos always did have a nicer smell as well. But, that says more about me than it does about the two products... Thanks again for the Welcome!

Adam x

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Cheers Isobel for comment on Me Myself and I. Just thought I'd write a funny one for a change! I quite like daft juvenile stuff :D

See you on Friday!

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thanks for commenting on my poem ... i was rather wrapped up eh , on my way to bed i was :)

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Hi there, Thx for the comments on my poem '1971' There is a more detailed reply on the blog entry page. Much appreciated. Win x

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How well you know me Izo ... Im sure you could locate me upon the planet 'Dark' in the middle of deepest starless night hidden underground within a blanket chest.

Great subject, and wonderful to hear from you again and a chance tooggle yer pins agin.

Many thanks for reading and commenting.

Gus xx

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thanks for the comment over 'escape', isobel.. the original draft off this is from a few years back from a old writing workshop exercise but straight away when dave announced it, i knew it was a contender for massive rewriting and it made sense one morning when cathy was out asleep.

i've wrote a poem directly about what you said too but cathy has banned me from blogging it - i'll send it over to you as a pm sometime. (Cathy now has a profile on here under a different name too) x

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Thanks Isobel for your support :) (chocolate shoes) The idea came as I was walking past a posh chocolate shop in Truro and there were some chocolate shoes in the window. xx

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Thanks Isobel.I always like to be helpful when giving feedback but peoples skins are often paper thin.

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Thanks Isobel x

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Hehehe, I do like to steal bits of other people's poems and did enjoy very much playing with the First they came for lines. So tempting to put because I am not a chicken but decided to drop the "not".

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Isobel, Hi, hope you & yours are well. Thanks for your comments. Dark does have the negative connotation but it's more as in secret, hidden, the unconscious breaking through. Although that can bring out all sorts of truly dark stuff in the negative sense! X

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Thanks Isobel (Rebel...) I must say I don't do drugs either, and I'm not bi-polar thank god. Keep falling in love though - damn! I'd LOVE to do more performance stuff, it has (the little I HAVE done) made me feel more confidant. But there's very little going on down here that I can get to. But I'm always saying that - I should maybe try and start something. I'm feeling great, but I've got to the stage where little old ladies at bus stops come up to me and start saying "Of course, in OUR day" and inwardly I go "FUCK OFF!!!" And women in my pottery class, if men/sex are mentioned, say "Thank god all THAT'S over!" and I want to say "Hang on a tick!" It all started last Saturday when someone at a writer's group I go to was surprised I needed money for the bus. She's DEAD MEAT! (Actually, she's very nice - I'll forgive her one day!)xx

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That's one reason I commented so fast. (Escape 2)- I thought you might change your mind about posting and it would disappear. It moved me so much, and it shows your strength. As you know loads of what I post is stuff that's very personal. If it's in your head and heart, it's hard not to mention in when you write poetry!xx

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Hi Isobel, thanks very much for taking such an interest in The Clackety-Clack. Funnily enough, I found myself talking to a poet who had read a very moving poem about her father in the interval at the South magazine reading last week. I spoke about this feeling of my dad being close to me a couple of times in the first three months after he died, and then really never experiencing that feeling ever again. She said she had experienced exactly the same thing after her father's death. I was quite startled by this. I wonder if there's anyone else out there with similar experiences? The final two lines of my poem are really about my realisation about us both taking the same tube and rail line home towards the end of our working lives, and feeling quite comforted by this.

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Hi Isobel. Thanks for the comment on Femme Fatale.I've never read it out at the Tudor - only just wrote it but you gave me the idea some time ago.CheersPS I liked your Yeung Sing Hotel poem.I think I've stayed in one like that.Dave

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