Thanks for comments on the Mr Dyer poem. As forty years to the day since I moved here felt he deserved a tribute!

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Hi Greg, many thanks for commenting on Pirbright. A fab new walk for me BTW and relatively unchanged since ancient man. Well done on getting published again (Cornwall Poetry magazine). CHEERS.P.

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THanks for comment on Kite poem, Greg. Pity I clicked on the wrong picture. I've tried to replace the buzzard with a kite but WOL won't seem top let me!

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Hello Greg. Devaluation - it's a poor poem but I was trying to show how ideas and attitudes are absorbed by children, amongst other things. The last 3 lines are the one part of the poem that I'm happy with.

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Hi Greg - really like your poem in Poetry Cornwall magazine - you are on the page before me! It's a really lovely poem - "Appointments of autumn waiting" - not sure why I like that line so much! Nice to see you in the mag - I really think it is a very nice publication.

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Backing my Ding a Ling must have been a hoot :)

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Hi Greg
Your comments on And ... & Wooing are very much appreciated
I am currently trying to summon the nerve to post Part 2 of the 'Wooing' saga. I'm holding back because it's twice the length of Part 1!!!!

Again, thanks for your time
Steve

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Greg, the 'Plato' comment was a quick one. But the idea was that, apparently, Plato valued hugely the effect that a poem had on the reader, while Aristotle championed the individual identity of the poem, its self-contained structure. Age-old argument, eh? It was just something I remembered because it really interested me.

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Hi Greg,

Thanks for your comments on my recent scribbles, they are always much appreciated.

Regards,
A.E.

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Thx for commenting on my footy Haiku Greg, left a further comment on the page.

My Best

Chris

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Thanks for your thoughts on Selby Abbey, Greg. I've just started voluntary work there part-time. It's a magnificent icon to have on my doorstep and too good a prospect to miss not being associated with it in some small way.

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Hi Greg

Ah yes. I was still there then. we moved away in 1978 to Pickering.

:-)

Win

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HI Greg thanks for comments on the Ali poem. It was a spin-off from my 'Shadow Boxing' poem for my dad. I had a stanza about him liking Ali, but thought it was too much, so it ended up in a poem of its own!

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Thanks for your thoughts, Greg, on 1962. I would have been 10 at the time and it was a realisation that the world beyond school and home and family was very big and not a place for me to play in; and that those stories they said on the news affected me.

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HI Greg Glad you liked The Wren Boy. I've had a little creative ripple recently and also posted another one you might like to have a gander at - Last Orders.

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Just realised that it's because I have special priveledges!

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Happy New Year Greg, Thanks for comment on Supervielle version. NOt a new year resolution, but I thought I ought to do a bit more with my French beforte I forget it all. Read some Supervielle recently because MOniza Alvi has brought sa selection via Bloodaxe and this was one she hadn't done.

EG - hello - I am butting in here. AF

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A belated thanks, Gregg, for your comment on `Betty...`

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Hi Greg Good to hear from you and thanks for spot on comments. I thought it was about time I bunged something on again! Hope you liked the little journalistic touch towards the end. I really tried to get the name of the paper 'The Daily Dispatch' in but it just wouldn't go with the rhythm. Was hoping to see a new one of yours when I logged on!

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Nick Lowe: 'The Bowi' ep - cracking!

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Hi Greg Mesmerized By An Orbit Of Hips (revised) on my blog is a product of your influence. Your editorial advice served as sand in a shell.
J. Otis

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Thanks for your comments on "Everyody's Gone Serfin'", Greg. I am more than indebted to the John O'Farrell book. I'm not so sure it will oust The Pogues "Fairytale of New York" as the best Christmas song ever, but at least I rival Shane McGowan as a singer!

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Hello Greg. Thanks for your thoughts on BSA Bantam. I always preferred riding the bike to being pillion, which was terrifying. I once sat at the back of my mate doing a ton "daarn the Saaarf Mimms" on his Honda Goldwing. I opened my eyes when we got there!

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Thank you for your comments on my poem 'De-friend...'. The lady in question is the grandma of a friend...sadly! I want one just like that :)

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Aaaw! loved that, laughed out loud! I think I know someone like that? luv him x

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Thanks for the advice Greg; bit new to this.....

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Hello Greg. Yes, you're right "Now, then" is a Yorkshire greeting similar to "Sithee!" and you're right it is more a tone of challenge than of caution. I could imagine two stags greeting each other that way!
When I first came to Barnsley as a 22 year old I nearly fainted when my landlady called me "cock". A boy can get the wrong signal!

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Hello Greg, 'An Englishman's Home' your kind comments always appreciated. Much obliged.

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Still don't like 'pay off'. Two syllables too clumsy, but think 'deal' might work better than 'chance' as we do talk about getting getting a 'good deal' when talking about redundancy/early retirement.

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Hi Greg Thanks for the comments on 'Redundancy'. The dog was a red setter, but he made out he had called it 'Red' to celebrate his 'redundancy' pay-off. I hope that makes sense. John had his own weird way of seeing things. His employment history was way too complicated to fit it all in a poem and along with his English state pension he had one from Ireland based in 5 years contributions back in the 1950s. No wonder their economy went belly up! I did originally put 'pay-off' in the last line instead of 'chance'. That might make it clearer, although I preferred the single syllable as I thought it flowed better. Maybe I should think again. Do you think that would make better sense?

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Hello Greg. Thanks for commenting on "The Ballad of The Boy and The Man". You certainly wouldn't have fancied Jones's chances if he had got hold of Mackay like that!
Thanks also for your thoughts on my clumsy attempt at Guitar Tango on Facebook.

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Hello Greg, many thanks for commenting on 'Evening' and congratulations on your recent poetry recognition.

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Hello Greg, thank you for the kind comments for Sixty. Regards, Graham

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Greg
Thanks for commenting on Speaking In Tongues & John Coltrane Didn't Practice. I find your suggestion to "loose lines" editorial and missing their origin and purpose.
"Earth is round
Universe is vast
But world is bigger
World is limited only
By imagination and practice"
I agree they are not as poetic as I want them to be but they represent a reference that inspired the poem. I wrote the poem for the recently past Equinox which this year was on Coltrane's birthday. I was in a free improvisation with other artists including a dancer who made moves that gave me the lines, from there I realized Trane expressed that in how he lived and worked. Like Trane I play all of the phrases that come to me. I may sort through them later but when they come I use them. This is still a new poem and I may learn better ways to say what I mean or describe what I saw and these lines will hold place for the rewrite until I do. If and when I find more lines I won't resist them.
Hallowing the search,
J. Otis

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Hi Greg

I have no idea what you mean :-)

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Hi Greg, thanks for your comments on my recent Woking poem since slightly modified. Am learning more and more about the place with other work I'm doing in the quieter hours. Cheers.

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I hoped 'For the Record' my appeal to the journalist in you, Greg. Egalabulus was certainly a dodgy emperor but also had a very bad press. I read this poem at a reading in Grimsby last night thinking I'd found a really obscure topic, but a poet friend of mine said that someone has just brought out a biography about him(Egalabulus, that it!). I looked on Amazon and there are actually two that have just come out. Quite an achievement when The Praetorian Guards bumped him off by the time he was 18!

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Hi Greg, Thx for comments on 'Autism' there is a fuller explanation on the blog page. As to the last line there were nothing wrong with your suggestions. Please keep commenting as usual lol. Win

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Hi Greg, Interesting isn't it how, when you know the source material it makes you see different things. And if you then relate to that material in one way or another then you see yet more. Frankly I hope chelsea make things interesting at the top this year. Thanks for your comments. Win

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Thanks Greg for your insightful comment on 'Scholars'. It's hot off the press so I'm still tinkering with it. I had thought of putting an epigraph from Wittgenstein at the top of it: 'Die Welt zerfallt in Tatsachen' - 'The world is divided up into facts' - but thought that might be taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut! I must say the Victorian classroom wasn't much different from mine in the 1950s!

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Hi again, Greg, thank you for lovely comments on Crimson Lipstick, appreciated as always.
Just been appreciating your samples, I especially like Kingfisher and Hollyhocks. x

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Hi Greg, thank you for kind comments on Teardrops in my Coffee, much appreciated. x

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Hi Greg - yes, I agree on both counts (Drift Reservoir)! In a way it's maybe like a sketch in a sketchbook, but you don't know if you'll ever make a proper painting of it. But I had to write something about that place. I think that with reservoirs, it's the tension that there is this great wall keeping all that weight of water in, what if it was breached? Also, what is underneath all the water, could be a submerged town, anything (though not in Drift - but maybe a cottage or two). That's why I thought those scenes in "Deliverence" were so brilliant, when the guys with the diggers are removing the coffins from the graveyard, cos a reservoir was going to fill the valley.

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Greg, it was the small matter of a syndicate trying to defraud UK banks (from the outside). Exciting days of looking over my shoulder all the time and staying in posh hotels. Got publicy commended by Judge Gerrant REES when it all came to fruition. Seems surreal now of course but looks good in the family memoirs.

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Good to hear from you again,Greg. Have you been under the radar the last week or so? Thanks for comment. 'Country matters' is a double entendre (based on its first syllable) quoted from Shakespeare, so I thought it needed to be in italics - but you're the editor! I must confes thatI do get a bit confused about when or when not to use them.

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Hi Greg, thanks for your comments there may be more on the way, its quite an enjoyable exercise. Win

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Greg
Many thanks for your kind thoughts on Wedding Anniversary. Since there were a lot of comments I have posted a more expansive response on the blog itself.

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Hi Greg, re; 'Poet's Haunts' appreciate your commenting. Did wonder where you'd got to and the hols explains it. Hope WWC continue in fine form and to catch up soon at one of the events.

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...hello Greg...thanks for the comment on 'Dog Lane'...(in Kelsall)...don't know E.Thomas's work ..will 'google!'...cheers..chris.

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