... And so it goes on.
Cheers Chris
Tommy

re 'Insult to Injury'
posted January 2012

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Chris we`re aiming for Chester on Thursday...hope to see you and Nat there!

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Chris,
Just struggled up through a fug of antibiotic mist
to let you know that I sent you a couple of e mails
about our dreaded lurgy, but they both came back.

Have a good night at the spoke, We`ll see you anon.

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Chris,
Thanks for the comment on my poem & recitation although you didn't have to get up so early for that!
Enjoyed your poems at the Tudor.
Dave

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Hi Chris, was it you who performed at the Ring O Bells a couple of week back. Trying to track down for Norman Warrick.
Katie

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Chris,
got the glasses okay this morning.

Thanks heaps (I`ll see you both at the next
Spoke)

Thanks again

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Chris, I`ve tried again with (I hope) the number you gave.

But I`m a complete ignoramus at this internet stuff..(I think I didn`t do the capital C.)

I WAS A BIT PUZZLED BECAUSE THERE WAS STILL THE WRONG NUMBER IN BLUE ON THE (FAVOURITES?)
PANEL WHEN I DONE THE SECOND ONE

SORRY FOR THE HASSLE.

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Chris,
You`ve made me a happy man. I`ve sent you an e mail about the glasses.

I`m sorry about leaving early, it was important
(I told Ian beforehand)

The heads getting better (slowly)...The brain went ages ago.

Thanks for your concern.

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Chris,
Sorry I missed your Christmas do (not home in time) Still recovering. When recovered then back to the fray.

Love to Natalie and Glynis

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Thanks for your comment on 'Scifi so good' Chris - pleased with the comparison with Spike Milligan - a bloody genius - less so with Stanly Unwin (lol) even though, he too, was a British eccentric genius - but he used to get on my nerves :-)
cheers
Ian

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Chris,
Congratulations on your new venue to you and Glenys and Natalie.

And what an enjoyable night to start it all off with.

Well done!

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Chris - I do hope this finds you in improved health. It is no sin to look after number one when it comes to personal well-being!! I enjoy reasoned and polite differences of opinion, recalling a friend from long ago who held the view that "argument is for the vain; discussion is for gain."

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Just to reassure you - I don't think there were any hecklers as such, at the last Tudor.

There was one lady talking very loudly in the corridor, seemingly unaware there was a poetry night going on right next to her - and there was a very drunk local standing by the gents. I'm not sure if he was meaning to shout encouragement or whether he was just very drunk and shouting for the hell of it. That's a bit of an occupational hazard of performing at the Tudor - for me it's part of the whole charm of it - no month is ever the same :))

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Howdy again Chris

Aye, Merry Hell are playing Wallasey this Sunday chuck. I don't think I'll be going along as will be having a late one Saturday supporting John the Baptist in Wigan. Will be needing me kip before work on Monday :) I know Bob would love to see y'all there though :)

You are bang on re John Smith. I was absolutely gutted when he died. For me, that really was the end of a genuine Labour party. It's been a sham ever since - not for the working class in the slightest, it's in name only. For 'New' Labour read 'Blue' Labour.

Aye, thanks for respecting my views, and you know that I always have time for yours, because I know that you do actually sit and think these things through, you do actually research stuff, and you form your opinions based on that research and thinking. I get so bloody tired of people regurgitating nonsense all the time!

Take good care anyway - hopefully see you and Nat soon

Laura

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Chris
thanks for the comments on 'fields of carbon & blood' and 'the beast' - much appreciated - enjoyed your reading at the tudor and 'i'll be back' so will have a chat with you later
cheers
Ian

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I forgot to add that I very much enjoyed 'Nothing Left' as you might expect from one who has voted the same way in 11 successive general elections.

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Many thanks for your kind thoughts on my prose piece, Schadenfreude.

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Chris - thank you for your considered comments on my post "Thatcher - In Passing" - both content and style. The "Sick Man Of Europe" tag remains with those of us old enough to know those times and the seemingly endless days of confrontation and strikes are still strong in the memory, with one industry after another slowly dying from within; and from without, as newly emerging economies offered competition we couldn't hope to match. We had to change, adapt or die. Go back a couple of centuries...to the glory days of our famous stage and mail coaches - eventually faced with oblivion as the various railway companies - with parliamentary backing - arrived to offer mass public transport. What, do you suppose, happened to the huge numbers of people reliant on the coaching trade? Was the PM of the day rubbished and were there efforts to bring the country to a stand still? Inevitably, as so often happens in progress, the mighty railways saw their own days numbered with the growing freedom of the private motor car and then the motorway. I ask - did they "destroy" this country or even parts of it - or were they necessary to secure the place of the country in the modern world? Ironically, the railways via the TSV/Eurostar, have since regained some new relevance/importance. Maybe, in time, our industries may also achieve some resurgence. What goes around, comes around. In the meantime, we should continue doing what we do best - invent, create, co-operate and sell! Cheers.

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Aye will do mate, if I ever get to finishing it ;)

And yeh, read your epic ;D

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Dear Chris,
thanks for the comment and will see you on Tuesday.Forgot how to use the Facebook to put this poem up.'Spirits New Haven' is a fine poem.
Best Steve

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Thank you Chris for your comment on THE NEED. I am an accidental poet and have only been writing for 2 years. Having no idea of the structure of poetry as such, I simply write. It is encouraging to have other opinions, especially if you enjoyed what you read.It's also good to leave a reader wondering, it exercises the mind.
Thank you.

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Waffle on, Chris! That was most satisfying & mind-ordering. Many conversations aren't, & pale in comparison. Thanks a million, Chris.

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Hi Chris Thanks for kind comment on my Dubai 'postcard'. I started doing them as a bit of fun as they enabled me to capture all sorts of fleeting memories, but also play around with ideas that interest me.

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Thanks for your message, rather lengthy and still appreciated.

I still would like to find out how the second version (reading) went. I have not altered my original post for the very reasons you have stated in your prompt response.

It is my hope that my approaching you for a sounding board reflects a value for your opinion and thought process on the poem, rather than seeking to be swayed by every breath of a suggestion, hinted or otherwise.

Again, my gratitude for your interaction and kind words.

Cheers.

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The key of currency
is 'changing of hands,'
a baton passed on,
in constant motion;
that binds together
all parties involved.

A fresh, crisp bill
is a bright-eyed virgin
between your fingers,
whose anticipation
and epic journey
are yet to unfold.


How does this read?
I've incorporated your much welcome suggestions.
You are greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Frederick

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Hi Chris. I really like your poems. I enjoy the narrative and admire the use of rhyme [never trite]. Most of all I like the sincerity. John.

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Hello Chris,
Glad you liked "Samantha Louise...".
The kids (they're both in their 20's now) made me up a collage for Christmas of old photos of us when they were little and a few of my poems about them. This was one of them.
I got some of that man-dust stuck in my eye.

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Hi Chris, I haven't seen much work from you in recent months but my guess is that's my fault. I have become a dad again for the third time and I have been busy tending to my baby daughter who is now some 3 months old.

Thank you for the comment on Out of Darkness. Yes it is to do with disability, without elaborating too much, the disability I thought of is Autism. And its effect on people who suffer this. However, I am not happy with the referral to a clowns status in her enlightenment but, as a poem that I thought would be a little different, I am happy with it I suppose, but then, all we poets can be our own worst critic.

Happy New Year to you!

Stay well.

Mike

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Chris,
A merry Christmas and a happy new year to you,
Glenys, and Natalie, from me and Yvonne...Hope the venues go from strength to strength in 2113.

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Hi Chris, I really enjoyed listening to ABC and
Yesterdays post, very poignant.
regards Paul.

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Chris,
Thanks for your comment on Compy Dompy.
Sorry it took so long to get back.
Dave

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Chris,
Got the pictures, thanks for all the hard work you must have put in in preparing them...They were well done (pity about the ugly old bugger you were photographing)

I`ll have a think as you suggested and a talk with you at the next gig.

I`ve replyed on here as I`ve not got the hang of e mailing properly yet...(it`s age)

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Thanks for your comment on my poem Chris - I'm glad you found something to like in it :) x

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Hi again, Chris, I have just updated my poem and altered several lines. :o) Thanks again.

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Hi Chris, thank you for your kind comments on The Tory Press and the Loony Left, especially for your time taken with suggestions for helping the sonic lines. I am still considering these, and will probably change some of them; another pair of eyes can only be a good thing, so thanks again.

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Cheers Chris I followed your advice on I followed all three elements of advice on 'A Lady's dismissal' :o)

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Hello Chris - the courtesy of your reply to my"profile" says as much about you as your blogs ever will. Certainly, let us by all means disagree on things political but I suggest there is surely room for "common ground" as no politician is to be totally trusted and no politicaldecision ever necessarily admirable/altruistic. My only misgiving in the general sense is the tendency to demonise "the right" and confer saintliness on the other lot...as if the latter were busy plucking their harps for us whilst the former were busy consorting with the devil. Going back a bit for a source of reference...comparing the grotesque WW2 public rantings of "Lord Haw-Haw" with the insidious activities of the Cambridge spies and their betrayal of country and people tends to add another perspective to being chummy with the devil and his works.
Keep up the good work.
All good wishes.
MC

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Cheers for your equally world-weary comments on Wilfully Blind ;D Appreciate it Chris, as I know it isn't one of my best but like I said, I just had to get something out about him. I was lying on my sickbed last week watching him drool his way through his statement and it was all I could do not to kick the telly in. Obscene.

Anyhoo, yep, we're all systems go for the next Spoke - looking forward to it. Just finished me setlist today as it goes :)

Can only agree with your really short comment on your poem (heh) - sometimes, you can actually hear the HEADLINES themselves coming out of people's mouths and you know exactly where they've got their 'info' from. I find the attitudes of the majority of my fellow working class heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. Can't agree with you on the 'genuine' right wing though mate. They stand for everything I am against. Zero tolerance.

Anyhoo - it's proper refreshing to hear you rant on about all this - balm to the soul :)

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Hi Chris,

Belated thanks for you comments / analytical thesis on my poem 'Fizz Bomb'. Glad you liked. Very interesting to see the poem described in your terms. A lot of my poems slide into a quatrain format, I wonder why 4 seems a comfortable number of lines. 4 doesn't seem like a very natural number to me? The main way in which this poem changed in its re writing is the addition of the last line of each stanza which seems to work well and as both you and Harry point out has a long vowel at most ends (Which I hadn't realised I had done!). It is a love poem of sorts, childhood love or love of a child, maybe? I think I will leave school teacher but have changed a typo and the selotape line to make more contextual sense. Thx again. Win x

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Thank you so much Chris,for reading and particularly for your well thought through and encouraging comments.

I read with great interest of your current battle related to all things venue and gigs over on the wirral and Liverpool. Sounds as if I should be over to support you... whats going on???

you were very much inmy minds eye when I was writing this piece insofar as you have always shown a great interest in my prose.

The boy was on his way to his Auntie, with the intention of running away and hiding away from for ever in bungalow. There were not many circus on the Isle of Wight.

Once again many many thanks and please keep me in the loop about your current issues.

Gus x

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

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Hi Chris
Ta for the comment on 'Out'
You're dead right, in that I'm attacking bigotry. But I'm old enough and honest enough to admit that there have been times in my life where thoughts have crept through my head that I would rather weren't there, and I believe anyone who says otherwise isn't being totally honest.
I shall continue to battle the demons

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Hi Chris, thx for your note. In reply
1) All is well on the Rochdale Canal and in the world of poetry.
2) Yes Hebden WOL does not exist at the mo but plenty of other monthly events in or near hebden (Puzzle poets, Sowerby ,Magic words, Tod, 2 other open mics in Hebden also).
3)Sailing / Cruising even driving all ok by me. No I am not planning relocating.
4) You can now keep up with my monthly poetry news here - www.winstonplowes.co.uk

Carry on...

Win x

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What ho, Chris. Glad you liked "Dream". I know what you mean by the line about my fingers around you own curled. It's only 8 syllables but seems a long line to recite, and the inversion doesn't help its flow either.
I might revisit it.

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Good Evening Chris
How nice to hear from you and if only I could get the old pony and trap across to the heart of Liverpool we would see much more of one another.
Thank you for your reading and critiquing of The Last Ferry and your request to hear more of my childhood memories from the Island and particularly those that include my aunt Norma.
The poem was written from a current standpoint with my memories, longings and sadly the fact of growing older and hopefully demonstrating that memories want to be prominent within your own minds eye so much so that they can be heard clearly and smelt and , although just out of reach, touched. Unrequited they follow me to my bed and fill my nights with dreams and echoes of the past.
It will be very good to see and hear you again sooner than later I hope all is well in love and heath.
Once again many thanks for your comments,
Gus

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Hi Chris
Your comment on 'And...' is very much appreciated.
In replying to Dave, I mentioned that it's probably the quickest poem I've ever written. Went to bed, and suddenly it was there.
I wish every poem was so quickly put to bed

Hopefully see you in the not-too-distant
Steve

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Hi, Chris, thanks for your comments on Song of the Ofsted Inspectors. The process reflects distrust, and it often demoralises. I do wonder whether the current agenda is to undermine state education across the board. Watch that Michael Gove; he doesn't say much, but he's doing a lot behind the scenes, secret emails, and the like. Never trust a former journalist!
Good memories of our meeting at Hebden Bridge. Hope to see you again some day. Greg

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Thanks for that Chris - I'm glad you could hear that inner voice. I struggled with the word 'gullibility'. For me it really doesn't flow or sound poetic. Unfortunately there was no other word for it and as with all my work, meaning and inner voice took precedence over poetry...

We all had great fun with that bubble - I must post some pictures to FB. It made a hell of a mess of the kitchen floor though :)

Hope to see you at the Tudor next week. x

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Thx Chris

Praise indeed from one so esteemed.

Glad it hit the spot for you.
Ken.

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Thx Ann- though I never really left.
I was reading and such like...I just removed my profile to try and reset a gig that had gone doolally tap lol.

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