Matthew, just wanted to make sure you knew, you can read your poetry on any Monday night at the Phoenix, at the open mic. Open to poets as well as musicians!

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Here you are, Matthew http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=49972#page_comment_132621

Previously unposted. Thanks for requesting it!

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Hi Matthew, welcome to Write Out Loud. Yes, I guess that was the night the Pyrford TV Arts crew were there. The poem is called 'A Foreign Wood', and, yes, it is mine. I composed it last year, just before a Remembrance reading in Woking town centre that the Phoenix organised, and I took part in with another local poet, Sarah Williams. Both Sarah and I were at the Phoenix on Monday night, as it happens. I didn't want them to think I only turn up when a TV crew is there! I've always thought of the Muslim burial ground, out there in the woods, as a rather eerie place, but I think that will change once the Islamic garden within it is open. I had a peek the other day and it is virtually finished.

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