Hey - does J.C. equate with "just cynical"?
Have you no romance in your soul? Read it or sing it - the message is the same.
Comment is about I LOVE YOU TODAY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for raising this, Win. "Keir tells me that because the gig was over-subscribed, there will be a second night taking place early in 2012 – he will reveal details as soon as he can." Owing to an editing error, this was omitted from Laura's published piece.
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
You dirty Old Bugger! I hope it worked. It's cheaper than flowers anyway.
Am I mistaken or is it a song in the making rather than a stand alone poem (albeit with a very specific purpose)?
Anyroadup, I enjoyed it.
Comment is about I LOVE YOU TODAY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Reminds me of Steinbeck's "aside" chapter in Cannery Row?? (I think) about the Blues and Greens?? (I think). Well, I did read it 30 years ago.
Comment is about HIGH RISE CITY CENTRE FAIRY TALE (blog)
Hello Laura.
Thanks for commenting on "Our Tom". He still lives in the village with his mum and dad, and it was only ever a joke that he seemed to spend as much time at our house as his own. I think he had a soft spot for my daughter which he wanted making hard!
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Thanks for your comments on "Our Tom", Isobel.
I read it to him and gave it to him framed for his 21st birthday. Apparently it's on his bedroom desk! There really wasn't any sadness at his leaving.
He's always been a smashing lad, a bit unlucky with the girls but he could make a fortune as a cruise ship gigolo - he has an attraction for women of a "certain age".
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
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Hi Matt, Somethong very simple and genuine in this appeals. thx for posting, Win
Comment is about Sat broken (blog)
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<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 22:23
And if it is all a mad, mad world pass me the teapot luv...I will willingly join the party.
A strong one this Izz ..x
Comment is about Alternative Reality (blog)
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<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 19:11
<Deleted User> (7075)
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 18:36
Well done with the review, Laura sounds like a magic night. There has been some talk of a BOMP launch pt 2 for all those who couldn't read on the night, anyone know anything about that? Win
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
hlo laura dearest, its wigan this thursday i see and not on my birthday at all, i might come then. see you there hopefully x
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
this brilliant :) 'your leg is in the way' something so intimate but not.
Comment is about Domestics (blog)
Original item by Alison Smiles
steve mellor
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 17:34
Fifi, your comments on White Rose were absolutely spot on for me. I tried to get the feeling of peace into it.
Thanks for taking the time - appreciated
Comment is about Fifi Fanshawe (poet profile)
Original item by Fifi Fanshawe
Larkin, M.C.? Thank you - I'm blushing... :)
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hi Lynn - thank you for your encouraging words! :)
Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)
Original item by Lynn Dye
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 16:03
Hi John.
how come we never see a Catfrogbird
on any nature programmes?
delightfully different!
cheers.
Comment is about Metamorphunandgames (blog)
Original item by John Embley
Scuttled away Clarkson is beneath contempt.
Two of my teacher daughters phoned me from theplateau to tell me they were following family tradition.
The strike is because of the curtailment of financial provision in retirement at a time when private pension provision is in a parlous, expensive, and untrustworthy state
This can only mean that almost all future pension provision will be in the hands of the goverment. (apart from a rich few)
This at a time when the `euro` countries at the core of the E.U. are about to form a tighter, fiscal, unity under Germany and France. I can`t see any way that Cameron (from the outside) can avoid being economically dictated to by this core (very much including pensions)
It`s very timely that the public sector workers should put a warning shot acros thebows of the government.Economically, `We aint seen nutin` yet.
Comment is about This country needs Clarkson (blog)
Original item by Peter Asher
10 great things i am.
9 lives of a cat i have
8 ways i keep it straight
7 dances i have made,
6 wishes i have granted
5 kisses still remembered
4 forms of independant thought
3 major hearts ive broken
2 tired to tell
1 man is sought
0 chance in hell
x
good poem, like a shopping list.
Comment is about Countdown (blog)
nice one laura, give us some of that sherbert :)
congratulations x
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
thanks stella, ste
i like the idea of a johnny cash style song. i could ask bill brierley to do it at guitarnverse maybe, hes a dead ringer for cash on the vocals. :)
its a good job we get second chances or there really would be no one here x
Comment is about hope (blog)
Thanks folks
Aw Cathy, it was an absolute pleasure - I'm not surprised you got so emotional! Thanks again for all your hard work - we really all do appreciate it :)
Looking forward to the photies Joy!
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
steve mellor
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 08:54
Isobel - the thought of anyone crossing you is ?? unthinkable ?? Loved the poem
I think
I reflect
therefore I am
my favourite little part
keep tilting. see you next week all being well
Comment is about Alternative Reality (blog)
Original item by Isobel
Yes it was a cracking evening. Some photos going in the galleries over this week. (My camera broke and I had to resort to my backup point & shoot - anyone know of a decent camera for sale cheap?)
So although I got pictures of everyone, the quality doesn't do the event justice. If yours doesn't appear I can email you a copy if you message me.
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 01:27
Read this yesterday and thought I had replied..
Love that second verse especially..and the repetition works well aww I just love this one.. :o)
Comment is about I LOVE YOU TODAY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 01:24
Oh now Rach..I really liked the set up of this and the mind set behind the poem..the pic is great too..
good work indeed :o)
Comment is about hope (blog)
<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 01:21
Thank you Francine for your helpful comments, much appreciated. I have changed the line you mention. Cheers. :)
Comment is about Plea for November (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
I love this, Harry! I taught at St George's (Catholic, funnily enough) in Toxteth (Mill Street) as a probationer in the late sixties, and although ecumenism was the buzz-word those days, Protestant/Catholic rivalry was rife even then -- I never found out how it all ended, either.... thanks for the nostalgia!
Comment is about HIGH RISE CITY CENTRE FAIRY TALE (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 2nd Dec 2011 22:34
Fantastic fantastication!!
Fond Feelings
from fellow fantasists.xx
(you can tell we watched the 'good 'ol days!)
Comment is about HIGH RISE CITY CENTRE FAIRY TALE (blog)
aS A FAIRLY NEW BLOGGER, WINSTON,THANKS FOR YOUR WELCOME TO THE SITE.
MY VERY BEST WISHES FOR ALL YOU DO IN THE FUTURE (HERE AND ELSEWHERE)
HARRY
Comment is about Bowing out: Winston's message to all his friends on WOL (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (9912)
Fri 2nd Dec 2011 20:54
Hi Jeff, thanks for the welcome. Guitar and Verse was a great night, some really entertaining acts, thanks for organising.
Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)
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steve mellor
Fri 2nd Dec 2011 19:26
Hi Ann
Lovely, as ever, to get your thoughts. It's not difficult to understand the basis for the poem, but a small explanation
Ann died on the 1st August (5 years ago) which is Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire as you may know, from your school history lessons, is the white rose county
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
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Well, when I say silver tin I mean a money box or, in broader terms, the nation's wealth. When I say saxophones I mean bad men with more money than sensitivity. It's a doddle, this poetry lark.
Comment is about It's Closing Time in the Gardens of the West (blog)
Dear Winston- I think many of the posters here ARE aware of Clarksons 'reasons' for his regular outbursts- however there is a MORE important issue to address, that of his ability to offend women, workers and anything left. The consequences of his tirades poisons the attitudes of many gullible people.
Comment is about This country needs Clarkson (blog)
Original item by Peter Asher
<Deleted User> (6315)
Fri 2nd Dec 2011 18:04
Wonderful review Laura...x
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
i liked the bit about the blackout.
Comment is about The reasons behind it all. (blog)
Big fat well done to all of you!!! :-)
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for that lovely review Laura! Speaking as one of the editors, I'm very proud to have been part of the team. I read each poem (all anonymously - we're about poetry, not reputations) three times, and it was such a pleasure. Keir spends *months* editing, doing layout and sorting out the printing etc, and then he and I proofread it. The book is gorgeous and gives me tingles down my spine, but launch night is what makes the work worth it. Meeting the people behind the poems is very special. I got so emotional in the end that I had a good cry - Stevie Turner says that my 'glitter-stained tears are a future poem in themselves'! So happy. Thanks so much for coming and being part of it too. I'll never forget it.
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I'm still very interested in the tin reference. And I've not changed my name - now it's my real name!
Comment is about It's Closing Time in the Gardens of the West (blog)
Well reported, Laura. I enjoyed the whole evening... a mix of oratorical and written styles.
Amazingly, no poet hogged the mic; no-one did long, rambling introductions.
My favourite readers of the night - a draw between Cynthia Buell Thomas's sensuous 'Lines on Picasso's The Aperitif' and Harry Matthews' 'According to John'.
I liked the very cheery MC-ing by Dominic Berry.
It was with relief that Rachel McGladdery and I discovered that the venue was licensed!Sometimes veggie venues aren't licensed but this was - and we sure as hell made the most of its red wine supplies.
Top night! And before arriving we had din-dins in Manchester's best restaurant, Cicchetti's, King St West, where a fellow diner was ROBERTO MANCINI.
As Rachel and I tottered out of the restuarant, heading for the launch venue, we also spotted that cockney actress MICHELLE COLLINS, who now plays the landlady of the Rovers Return. Then to complete the celebrity count we bantered with DARREN THOMAS - the engimatic presence from the riotous Tudor Wigan poetry night.
Darren long ago had the good sense to bin off his native Bolton for the good life in Wigan (when he is not travelling the world, that is).
Lastly, I want to say I appreciate the hard work and efficiency of KEIR THOMAS and his editorial team in producing this book. Go buy folks!
I'm looking forward to reading all the poems in the book - when I'm sober, which will probably be sometime early in January. I will then announce my overall favourite. And no it won't be my own 'The Finished Sentence of Love' ... page 156 if anyone's interested!
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Lovely poem Stella. x
Comment is about After a Long Day (blog)
I love the
"thousand little mind-witches"
Good one Dave!
Comment is about The Itch (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Love this Fifi! xx
Comment is about Jolly Fun (with apologies to Charles Causley) (blog)
Original item by Fifi Fanshawe
If in doubt...
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Comment is about The Itch (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Ann Oxley! J'aime ta nouvelle photo de profil : )
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Hey, cheers ladies - I had a ball, and really enjoyed writing the piece. Was a great night :)
Comment is about The thrill of it all: a big night out with the Best of Manchester Poets (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hi Dave,
Thank you so much for your comments! I was just telling a friend what I hoped would come through with 'Broken Mirrors'... I wrote it with two completely different ideas in mind - and you picked up on that : )
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
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Laura Taylor
Sun 4th Dec 2011 10:27
Nice one Andy!
Comment is about Poems published on poemhunter (blog)
Original item by Andy N