thanks for your kind and supportive comments on 'a peaceful warrior' Greg - I'm pleased you liked it
Ian

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Hi Greg, thanks for link to accompany the Brompton Cemetery lines, all the peaceful green spots in town should be kept, in fair repair - and wilderness. That verse a last thought not included in a longer poem on return from a night at the Troubadour, when we didn't notice Morrison & Page around the corner,

...a rainy cup of Java and a tranquil hour
to kill, I stopped in at the Brompton cemetery garden
to dwell upon a death I brushed against...

Looking forward to the New Inn on 18th July.

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Hi greg

I knew Adrian very well, first met him at streates coffee bar, I use to go round on a sunday and have tea with him and joyce, he was a wealth of knowledge, in fact introduced me to the joys raymond chandler. Adrian stayed in my parents house after a cnd march, when we were in london. In his painting christ entrance to liverpool I'm next to arthur dooley near the front. I participated in his happenings at the hope hall. We nearly caught up in Cookham Berks, he had come down for a poetry reading, I was rehearsing my big band in a church in cookham, he I believed went to the wrong church. Oh yes, it's me on the saatchi site, I've always dipped the brush, Adrian did have one of mine,
fondest regards

mike weinblatt, jm weinblatt, lord shosti o'kovitch and once was mike vincent

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Thanks for your note on Mothering Sunday, Greg.

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the cheque is in the post Greg...;o)

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Hi Greg Thanks for appreciation of Wolfram, although I'm not quite sure if I've got it right yet. I have been tinkering with it quite a bit.Not sure I need to drag Ted in at the beginning, but then rhythm goes to pot when i take him out. I'll have to let it mull a while!

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Hi Greg Thanks for appreciation of Wolfram, although I'm not quite sure if I've got it right yet. I havcce been tinkering with it q

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A plug? You mean a news item, of course, David! Of course we're usually interested in a new publishing venture, especially with such a Larkinesque name. Do keep us posted.

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Hi Greg. Good to hear from you again & Hi Ray Thanks for encouraging comments about 'Manganese'. In passing I am soon going to be launchuing my new online journal and publishing venture The High Window along with co-editor Anthony Costello. I'll be in touch again in case you want to give it a plug. Might need a poem or two in due course as well!

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Thanks Greg for recent comment :)

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Very kind of you to say so, David. Likewise, I'm sure!

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Thanks Greg , I'm glad you enjoyed the sleaze! A good night , and a tough spot to go on first but upwards and onwards.

Ray

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Greg I've answered this!

Graham

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Hi Greg, sorry to trouble you , but I wanted to change my profile picture and I can't see an easy way. I don't want to lose or confuse my existing profile page ! Any help out there? Ta.

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Yes thanks I was aware, but I fancied reading at the "official" poetry event first. Plus I need to pluck up the courage.

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Thanks for the kind welcome. Yes it is such an interesting place, the perfect subject matter. Is there is copy of the poem published or on here so I could have another read? I missed the last poetry session at the phoenix centre but I hear there is to be another in October hopefully I'll have something to read for then.

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Hi Greg I saw you read at the Phoenix Centre in Woking a little while back and meant to speak with you then but I was playing music and got distracted. I wanted to discuss one of the poems you read. I cant remember the name of it but it was to do with the Muslim war graves, was it your own work?
Thanks Matthew

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Thanks for your comments Greg. I like the first line, but it has no connection really apart from to imagine how cold it would be so defrocked! The last line sort of Xmasy but a big stretch of credibility!

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Yes, I think it is a great venue and it was a very special night indeed. I think Maggie's response to your review is the most important and she was moved by it.
I performed at the recent Mayfly Festival of Arts at the Square Tower, it was on the last May bank holiday and there was a great atmosphere. I think the owners are very willing to support the arts here in Portsmouth and it was great to have artists, musicians and poets sharing a platform.
I hear that you are a featured poet at the next Guildford event? That should be good. Have you ever been to a Tongues and Grooves open mic night?

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Hi Greg,

Just thought I'd stop by to say hello. I was at Maggie Sawkin's book launch at the Square Tower. Your review of the evening was spot on. Such a powerful and emotional collection.

Helen :)

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As an afterthought, Greg, have you seen any of Colin Gifford's books on UK railways. Great shots of the industrial areas in the sixties . Two reside on my bookshelf.... all the best.

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I'm so glad you enjoyed the tank graveyard. I tried one about pillboxes, but it didn't quite work. Plenty of atmosphere, which you like, I know! The final line perhaps was inspired by the Turner painting Steam Smoke and Speed(I think). Who know where these ideas come from, but that poem was an experience I had as a kid.
I enjoyed your poem Wrecks a lot. It drips with images of the sea.

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Hi Greg I knew I wasn't the first to write on the theme of 'Nothing' - Rochester and Thom Gunn to name but two got there before me, but I didn't realise the MP team had got there before me as well. A commendable piece of wisdom very well expresed!

Thanks again for the great night you organized at King's X.

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Would you mind giving me some feedback on the writing material I have posted? I am of little experience and I wish to have a professional's opinion.

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That's a bit of a cryptic question, Tommy! But I can give you a straight answer. Not me, mate.

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Hi Greg, was it you that commented upon a scene from Kubrick's 'Paths of glory'? Tommy

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Yes, Greg, don't think I didn't toy with bringing that track by the Doors into it. I also wanted to include 'selfies' (but that will have to be for another poem)and the fact that when I offered to pass me 'handy plan' on to a young Fench couple when we were on the way out they said 'That's OK. We know this place by heart! There must be a moral there. Still, there's only so much you can squeeze into one poem and it's a bit long as it is!

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Hi Steve, good to hear from you, and thanks! This is from the blurb that I've been working on ..."a fondness for early 1960s black and white films set in the north of England, with factory hooters sounding and a steam train whistling in the distance. He writes poems about Beeching, Betjeman, canals in the 1970s, newspapers in the days of hot metal, post-industrial Britain, characters that can’t shake off the past." I guess that answers your question!

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Glad you liked the Northern Soul poem. Yes I've seen the recent docus which obviously helped me a lot. I used to dance to Tamla and stuff at the Top Ranks suite in Reading in the 60s when I was 14/15, but like you knew nothing about hat northern scene. There's quite a lot in my own ubringing that helps me identify with it. DOing a crap job all week and then getting away for the weekend.

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National Press items -
Glad to help the cause of poetry - especially verse - on WOL!
The letter before mine had me nodding in agreement
and to have the two printed about poetry was indeed a bonus for this occasional Sunday Express
reader.

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Hi Greg, yes fancy doing a few more of these litle vignettes. Already got another on on Sonny Rollins and maybe one brewing for Monk. Btw, I gave Rodney a couple of books for you because I thought you'd both be at Screech Owl. UNfortunately I couldn't make it either.

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Hi Greg. The Tudor is always a possibility and more so if you'll be there. Hopefully......

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Thanks for your very kind comment Greg. I do hope we meet one day

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Hi Greg. Thanks for being so kind to take a look at my work. I didn't originally plan to make 'The Diving Board' a kind of short story narrative, it just seemed to develop that way! Thanks again.

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Hi Greg Happy New Year yourself! Be good if you can make it to the Covent Garden gig. Yes, I have quite a few more in the Grimsby sequence. I was amazed by the quick response from Pennilessand the fact that they took the lot, although I was only expecting them to take one and wanted to spread them around!I thought they looked a bit Stand-ish, so I might have to try them with what's left. THough it takes them forever to get back and the lost time was a rejection!

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Hi Greg Happy New Year! Glad you liked the stamp poem. I'm thinking of maybe going to the Ariadne launch in January. Do you fancy it? Also will definitely be down to the Poetry CAfe Covent Garden for Grant Tarbard's Screech Owl launch, if you're up for it. I'll be reading with other contributors including Bethany.

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Hi Greg Glad you liked the tree poem. It's recentish. Hope to make it down your way in the new year. I'm rewading again at Guildford in, I think, JUne, but have some other friends readings so might try to get down for them. Do I remember correctly seeing your name in Orbis or some such recently?

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Hello Greg .. I'm really pleased about your Thomas Hardy comment because all I knew of him was The Woodlanders from school,so I searched his wife's death and found the poems. Curiously I see Woodlanders was written 1887 the year my gr. gr. gr'mother Ellen died in Oldham .. it took me months to find her grave because there was a mistake on the death cert'.I 'googled' 'beyond the gate' and the first thing is a place who help alcoholics ! .. it's all very odd.

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Backing vocals on "My Ding-a-ling" priceless.

Enjoyed your sample works.

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Hello Greg,
Honours shared at the weekend.
Glad you enjoyed "Cottage Sleaze" and weren't too put off by the racist stuff. It would be a rare cottage indeed which contained politically correct graffiti.

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Poetry Please favourites/Edward Thomas...etc.
I consider differences of opinion a healthy
sign in any worthwhile society. But the
curmudgeon in me has no difficulty in jousting
with the self-righteous, self-serving and self-pitying who use poetry as their vehicle. BUT
you will never find me resorting to abuse
towards those who take ME to task, either for
my poems or a POV...unlike some who it is clear
are quick to delete views they cannot handle and trot out words like "troll" in response, like petulant children.
Carry on disagreeing. You could always be right...
or perhaps not.
Ego argues...wisdom discusses.
Regards
MC

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Love these; remind me of Auden.

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Hi Greg, have one or two medical issues giving rise to concern ('nuther hernia op pending, plus other investigations. That aside, haven't heard much of you in recent times & I hope the muse goes well.

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Thanks for kind comment on Seamus poem. I'm sure there'll be an avalanche and I didn't want to get on a bandwagon, but he has always been my man.

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I don't know if she was in charge of actual choreography, but she taught them all stage presence, deportment, fashion, etiquette, all that kind of stuff. Basically getting them presentable to break into the white market and not show themselves up in front of royalty and other vips. I thought the poem was quite timely in view of the MLK anniversary. She was a great lady in her own way and opened the first black charm school a decade before Berry Gordy's mum recommended her to Motown. Some MOtown is a bit saccharine, but they still produced masses of top class pop. DIana ROss ain't no Aretha though!

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Apologies, Greg. I did, of course, mean "Lord Howell".

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Many thanks for your kind thoughts on "The Rhymes They Are A-Changin'". One I wrote for Bob Dylan which he never used.

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thanks for the great review Greg. It was great to have you and Julian over. I really must make it to the Marsden jazz week poetry this year. I must crack on with the Manchester poets. Did you know Gaia Holmes is launching her new book at Dean Clough? its on the 19th Aug. prestigious venue that.

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Hello Greg,
Many thanks for your thoughts on "Morning Star"; a find, indeed, in Harrogate!

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hello Greg,
Glad you liked "Your First Hut is the Cheapest". My own favourite is PP Arnold's although Sheryl Crowe does a good one. Of course, nobody could have done them without the genius of Cat Stevens.

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