I liked "Home Is" very much.

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OH HAI THERE :3

just dropping by to say i think your poems are wonderful accessible and easy to relate to <3

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Hi Gemma,

Love 'We Watched It Live' especially after hearing you perform it, interesting that Al Jazeera do 'as is' news and we have to wait for Wikileaks to find out the truth.

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Once more reading your grandma poem makes me smile :-)

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Hi Gemma,
I commented on your "Grandma" poem a while ago and have just been reading through a couple of your others."Norman's Chippy" reminds me so much of a chippy/toffee shop in Wigan I used to go to as a kid called "Josie's".She lived above it in a flat,and I also remember pea-wet and and scraps or "scratchings" as regular tea-time treats.
It was the toffee counter down the left of the chippy that fascinated me though! This brought back really strong,vivid memories of my own childhood.

I also loved your "Blackpool Rock" poem as well! I still love the place,but it's funny what you notice as you get older,isn't it?I worked in Blackpool three years ago,and what you see daily is an eye-opener!
Will definetely be having a look at your stuff again!

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Hi Gemma,
Loved My Grandma Painted Her Eyebrows On!It's brilliant when someone stands out from the norm!

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hey gemma...loved your grandma poem. My grandma drank whisky and guinness then puked in the sink at night before bed...she was not quite so glamorous as yours:)

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Hi Gemma, well done at the slam, great stuff as ever, hope the sunburn has cooled off!! Glad you enjoyed 'Old Trout'! Jeff X

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Hi Gemma, congratulations on coming runner up in the slam, you'll get that elusive one yet yo just wait and see. :-)

Janet Ramsden.x

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Wow jus been reading thy CV my god when do you breathe woman you sound very dedicated hope we get to meet and converse at a gig soOon
warm vybz till then.x ps soz 4 jamming ur coments section

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hey gemma tiz Chris Jam here I didnt get achance to compliment you on your performance yesterday very strong and distinctive in both content and delivery.

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Hi Gemma
Feeling rather sheepish... Posted a comment 1 year late the other day... I thinks it's obvious which one! Sorry.. but the sentiments still apply (It was late). Win Baaaaa

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Hi Gemma

Congrats on a great gig at ShangriLa last night. Impressive stuff under a lot of pressure!

Cheers

Tony

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Hi Gemma
Read your Blackpool Rock poem today. Great stuff. I also have a seedy side of blackpool poem on my Myspace prompted by taking my 8yr old daughter there recently (had to use selective hand blinkers!). Can I tell you what really amazes me however... And that is the fact that twice now I have seen you scribbling words shortly before reading! how does that work? Take it from me that everyone was shocked to silence at the Bolton performance course when they found out you had just written the "star fish - bed" poem you performed so well. (sorry can't remember the actual title) Cracking stuff,
winston

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Hi Gemma

It's a pleasure, I'm so happy you like the poem, hope Chris liks it too.

I love the way you perform your work. I'm there in the poem, carried along by your words.

Lynda x

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Hi Gemma, great to meet you briefly last night, really liked the 'Bolton' poem. Enjoyed your performance of it too, thats something I'm just learning at the moment!

Enjoyed my first time and appearance at the Old Boars Head and will be there next time.

Enjoyed reading your work on here, love the 'Blackpool Rock' poem brilliant.

The poem I've got on my profile about watching people that I mentioned is in my samples called 'I know you're there'.

If you have a look at that and any others would appreciate your feedback, cheers see ya soon Jeffarama!

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Hi Gemma. All the above are strong poems you know, but the Grandma one stands out so much for me personally, and I really love it. It's so evocative of a really fun grandma, and also of past eras ideas of glamor that many a grannie would have resonated with, although, not many would have emulated like the inspired and inspiring grandma of the poem. If it's really about your grandma I expect she feels really flattered!!

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Gemma your an excellent poet. You are one of the greats and I never get tired of reading them so hurry up and get a book published of them so I can read them all the time

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i really enjoyed 'new location'.

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I loved the Grandma poem.

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Hi Gemma
As always you blow me away,Love your poems love your accent.

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'Course you don't know these peopleses! Long time ago now as the nose flies - and a Completely Different Course!!!
Not only that, you're a Bury gal! I know how particular these towns can be.

Best wishes all the same, in a cosmopolitan vein

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Good old Bolton, eh. I did a degree at Bolton Uni when it still was Bolton institute of Technology. Is Malcolm Pittock still there? Barry Wood....
Bolton once had the best public library I have ever seen.
I worked for quite a while at Bolton Area Resource Centre running the Volunteer Bureau. Best job I ever had.
I'm telling you all this cos I think yer fab. An Moxy do too.

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Went to the Chinese last night. Ate crap. Talked about the fine plastic furniture endlessly. Chin highly polished. About to be divorced.

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Love these poems. I heard you perform Dirty Normans and the "When I was five I wore dungarees" and I think they are brilliant.

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Hello Gemma! It was fantastic meeting you and hearing you read your powerfully evocative poems. Litbury was amazing, you created a wonderful, unique and friendly word-based family event. My dad thoroughly enjoyed himself, despite hating poetry. As soon as he got home he phoned his friends and said, 'You'll never guess where I've been all afternoon....' Thank you.

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