Hi John.

Came across the aquillrelle anthology from a couple of years ago that my daughter bought for me after I'd had a poem published. Wondering if there were any other W.O.L poets listed, I looked,and there you were, your contribution being the excellent little epoch about the mine disaster.

Wonderful entertaining stuff yours! never read a bad one. I get the impression you find it easy?

Unlike me, many more pages deleted. than survive.

Ken.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Surrered = suffered?
MC

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Hi John,

I do agree with you about the word "Did" in my poem "Daddy". I posted a second version "Daddy edited version." I just left out the word did.
Thank you for your kind comments. But actually my Dad passed on Dec.9 2009. I have only recently been able to write about it.

Thanks,
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello M.C.

I was unsure about the word "Did" in my poem "Daddy". Thanks for your input. I have a second version "Daddy edited poem". I just left out the word did. Thank you for the nice comments.

Shirley

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Shirley - agree with JC about "did". It has a smack of "ye old English" about it. Difficult to replace - but keeping the overall deep feeling of the piece, I would have gone for something like..."and love saw us cry"...which also maintains "rhythm" in the words.
Best wishes,
MC

Comment is about Daddy (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Terse. crisp and effective. The use of Jackie K's bright life-affirming outfit is perfectly chosen as the counterpoint to her famous husband's shocking murder. This was the event that, for many across the world, defined their youthful angst...a dream of a bright new world snatched from them for all that world to see. Back and to the side...back and to the side...that simple law of physics blew away the usual conscience-salver of American politics - the lone nut killer. The extraordinary list of those with something to say who died in the weeks and months that followed in a variety of circumstances that have been described in betting terms as many millions to one only underlines the planning and determination behind this most infamous of political killings.

Comment is about She Wears Pink (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

''whoops'' give me a break.

Comment is about Sophia Walker wins BBC Poetry Slam Final (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

A black bloody day in the history of Manchester
perhaps we remember more for the wrong reasons.

Comment is about Peterloo (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Andy

We all miss you at Stockport hope to see you soon.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Ann

Ian has just joined Stockport Write Out Loud and came along to the last meeting.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Nicely done Ian. The tension wrought by the short snappy lines is very good, as is the wrapping of the poem within the frame of the pink dress. The rhythm is also nice and tight. The lack of punctuation and capital letters is effective to give a sparse, spare feel to it - like an almost shocked reaction.

Comment is about She Wears Pink (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

An interesting read - thank you. This does go to prove what I've always thought about slams and competitive poetry - humorous/witty poetry just doesn't stand a chance against serious stuff, no matter how well it's written or presented.

Personally, I like a poet who can show versatility - make em laugh as well as cry - but judges don't seem to - and audiences too when it comes to the crunch.

Comment is about Sophia Walker wins BBC Poetry Slam Final (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

Thanks for so many kind comments - and a technical analysis of my words way beyond my simple understandings. I simply write what comes into my head and if it sounds right, then great.
Having said that, I did use a song dynamic with the middle stanza - a sort of middle eight, if you like.
Cheers again, Simon.

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

Good one Marksy - namechecked a few of my favourite bands there - still bloody difficult listening to some of those early JAMC singles :-) - I'm more of a 70's guy myself though - the god that is Weller who has morphed a number of times but never let me down (although the Style Council tested my patience). Nice nostalgic piece - the irony and despair of tainted idols shines through
Ian

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

really enjoyed this Mike - a difficult read (as you say)but the backing track is also creepy and sinister. The lyric is very dark and, some would say, perverse - but it is very honest and powerful. Liked the whole of it - lyric & tune - great stuff mate
Ian

Comment is about In Only A Contented God (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Thanks for this Lettie, great report. It sounds to have been a cracking final.

Comment is about Sophia Walker wins BBC Poetry Slam Final (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

Heartfelt and simple Shirley.
If I was being picky I didn't like the "did" in "did cry". It always feels like a spacer to me.
On another level, if this is personal and recent, my condolences.

Comment is about Daddy (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Fine poem, Ian.
Very vivid.
I'm not so sure about the "saviour" bit.
I've seen a lot of them!

Comment is about She Wears Pink (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Go for it MC.
F**k the detractors.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hello JC - I can get the words and a tune
together but you have that extra ability to
accompany and perform your own stuff. Long may
it be so!!
P.S. I'm having DKJC promoted on a Hotdisc
compilation that gets sent to Country music DJs
around Europe and beyond in September. Nothing
ventured...nothing gained - as they say. Plus -
it's also promised a few online plays on www.ukcountryradio.com then. Bring it on!!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

No, it's not waffle at all, and I completely understand. Sometimes I want a little knowledge ahead of it all, sometimes I don't, but what I hate most of all is having someone else's knowledge imposed on me. Monothought makes me itch all over.

I enjoyed reading your post as much as your poem, as it goes :)

Comment is about A Symphony in White (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Thank you for your time and comments and for following too Cynthia!

Laura - yes! Thank you for taken what you have taken from this poem for that is, unfortunately, how I feel sometimes. I do think that there is an elitist attitude sometimes that strips away the question of a differing response to art being accepted rather than just being simplified and i think sometimes this is due to a self imposed importance that sometimes academics place upon themselves. I encountered a few pretentious exercises during my undergraduate degree when it came to the prospect of working with certain tutors - almost as if it was proving your intellectual fuckery (if you pardon my language) in order to write which is not how I see it all at all. (I must say i did end up work with two excellent people during that time - Michael Schmidt and the late and beautiful Linda Chase who inspired me a great deal).

The further I continue with my own little writing journey, the more I am confused and the more art I see, the more child like I wish to become - I have this wish to stand in front of work as if i was the only want to see it, without the jargon of write ups or all those who have had their opinion before which cannot help but add to mine sometimes. I know this to be quite selfish I suppose but I am sometimes quite solitary in my walking about life, and so I suppose its my way of wanting to be friends with what I see! I do believe I am waffling now.

I had a bit of head on me this day. there is so much to love in the poetry world today too for I must say that my heart always wants to read those who throw their emotions completely into the wind and don't care how obscure, or how grandiose, or how unstructured their work chooses to be. That they have expressed some beauty within or outside themselves which is too painful to keep in rather than write tightly and appreciative of competitions and alike.

I love reading stuff at Ravenna press at the moment too. Beautiful work there.

"Beauty will be compulsive or it will not be at all." Andre Breton (x)


Thank you and again sorry for waffle! x

Comment is about A Symphony in White (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

apols for the delay Cate - thanks for reading :-)

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

Original item by Cate

what!? no Stranglers!!(cool poem)xx

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

Harry - delighted you found and enjoyed "Daddy Knew Johnny Cash".
I knew I was on to something when a pal of many
years - a published suthor of a book about the
origins of the Oxford Dictionary and a retired
lecturer in English at a Canadian university - told me how much he had enjoyed it. Just shows you never
quite know who - or where - your audience might be!!
Now -an annoyed P.s. - however much I have tried to make the above lines neat and tidy - they are
reproduced here like the product of some wayward sub-editor's untidy mind. Most aggravating.
Apologies!

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Hello Isobel,
Thankyou for you thoughts on "WriteOutLoud Women Blues".
Glad to see that the depths of my crudity do not disappoint you! Of course, I don't know what half of those poetry terms mean - I had to look them up.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hello Foxy,
Thankyou for reading "WriteOutLoud Women Blues". There's a lot goes on in my head (not much outside!)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hello MC,
Glad you enjoyed "WriteOutLoud Women Blues".
I have to say it's not a patch on your Johnny Cash tribute.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Titter ye not
If ye squitter a lot!
Anally retentive is not a phrase to mess with
here!!

Comment is about Squitters (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Starfish,
Thankyou for reading (maybe listening to) "WriteOutLoud Women Blues". I didn't mean to alarm you with my manifesto!

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

Original item by Starfish

Well if you were to ask me to lick this piece into shape, I'd have to say that some of the demonstrative and possessive pronouns in your song were at odds with the written format - perhaps you became more demonstrative and possessive as you got really into your subject matter, John?

For now, I think I'll echo Ann - but I did have a jolly good chuckle - and I LOVE the blues - the guitar work and the flow of your poetry. Did it just trip of your tongue John?

We should do a double act - when I'm being smutty, I think I could out-smut you!

;)) x

Comment is about WriteOutLoud Women Blues (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

E-motion recalled in tranquility as Wordsworth might have said!

Comment is about Squitters (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Oooh, sorry if I've got mixed up! Looks like you've done plenty! (Who's Ian?) :)

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Ann I think you mean Ian or do you want me to do a bit more?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Inside the lines
the boy smiles
what is missing
is your love.

Comment is about Benefit of the Doubt (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Hi Ann - thanks for the 'hello'. :)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comments John and for listening to my lastest entry.

Rhyme is not dead yet and though it might be outmoded in some quarters, the proverbial man on the street still enjoys it. I do hope your rhymes are not changing!

Karen.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments on Grumpy Summer and thanks for listening.

Karen.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for listening to "Grumpy Summer" and your comments. I appreciate it. You highlighted the lines I rather like myself!

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Enjoyable review - I'm fascinated by the combination of poetry and comedy. Many poets try to cross over into comedy - it's interesting to hear of comedians doing the same thing - with or without success.

Comment is about Phill Jupitus the poet? Worth a listen. But don't give up the day job, Phill (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for your comment on my Beautiful poem - I'll try to perform it next time I'm at the spoke - and I'll expect you to join in on the chorus!

xx

Comment is about Ged Thompson (poet profile)

Original item by Ged Thompson

despite no mention of the Clash,
I love this piece.x

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

Disappointment, Anne, disappointment.

Comment is about The shortest poem wot I ever wrote (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

nice stuff with a great ending dave. top one

Comment is about Who was having more fun? (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

the use of the slight change at the end of the stanzas works really well here. have you tried this live yet? it should work really well

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

the last stanza is a killer, katy here but an top piece all round i think

Comment is about Benefit of the Doubt (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

interesting ideas, david. enjoyed.

Comment is about Weather Crossword (blog)

Original item by David Blake

hi m.c. - thanks for the comment regarding peterloo. it's a piece that means a lot to me and is still in flux a bit but pleased you liked it.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

hi harry - thanks for the comment regarding peterloo. it's a piece that means a lot to me and is still in flux a bit but pleased you liked it.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

thanks guys. it's a piece which still in flux a bit means a lot to me and i am pleased to read your comments.

Comment is about Peterloo (blog)

Original item by Andy N