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- Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:12 pm
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Poignantly ...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 182
Re: Poignantly ...
We should make a list of all the publications that (partly, at any rate) came about because of PG.
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:11 pm
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Poignantly ...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 182
Re: Poignantly ...
It's great, everyone. Do order one.
Ros
Ros
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:10 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: THE CLOSING & REOPENING OF THIS FORUM
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1488
Re: THE CLOSING & REOPENING OF THIS FORUM
Jane, I hope so! Keep meaning to get back to writing, but at present drawing and other things are taking up the time...
Ros
Ros
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:52 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: THE CLOSING & REOPENING OF THIS FORUM
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1488
Re: THE CLOSING & REOPENING OF THIS FORUM
Magpie Jane! So great to see you around again!
Ros
Ros
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:28 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: THE CLOSING & REOPENING OF THIS FORUM
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1488
Re: THE CLOSING & REOPENING OF THIS FORUM
The Making Contact anthology was indeed a great highlight, and is still one of the quirkiest and interesting anthologies I own!
Rosemary
Rosemary
- Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:04 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: In My Mother's Bedroom After the Funeral
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3792
Re: In My Mother's Bedroom After the Funeral
Just a thought... Could you say something like
... could not now comprehend it...
And leave the dementia left unsaid? I think the reader would still understand.
... could not now comprehend it...
And leave the dementia left unsaid? I think the reader would still understand.
- Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:12 am
- Forum: Any Other Business
- Topic: EveryPoet.org?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4987
Re: EveryPoet.org?
Hi Michelle, It used to have a reputation for shredding anyone they didn't approve of. I'm rather pleased if it's dying! Forums tend to have ups and downs but in general I have an impression many are struggling to keep committed members. It takes time to do it properly. We are rather more welcoming ...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:48 pm
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Antiphon issue 24
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1718
Antiphon issue 24
Delighted to announce the new issue of Antiphon. You may recognise a couple of names: http://antiphon.org.uk/wordpress/
Ros
Ros
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:24 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: In My Mother's Bedroom After the Funeral
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3792
Re: In My Mother's Bedroom After Her Funeral
My pleasure!
hmm, I thought heaven was implied anyway, but reading it again, I wonder if it would be so obvious she had passed away without it. But I do feel something a bit less literal might work well.
Ros
hmm, I thought heaven was implied anyway, but reading it again, I wonder if it would be so obvious she had passed away without it. But I do feel something a bit less literal might work well.
Ros
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:20 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Still Life (was Boots)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2984
Re: Still Life (was Boots)
I like the revision, Luke - I think it says all that is necessary.
Ros
Ros
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:13 pm
- Forum: Poetry Discussion
- Topic: Perry's Opinions (on minimalism and more)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7077
Re: Perry's Opinions (on minimalism and more)
Dear Perry, The number of mods is more historic than anything - many of them are no longer around much, as you'll have noticed. I've never found anyone reluctant to argue with me just because I was a mod! Their main use has been to keep an eye on the place and turf out the very occasional person who...
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 9:05 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: In My Mother's Bedroom After the Funeral
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3792
Re: In My Mother's Bedroom After Her Funeral
I like it as it is, and think the style fits the poem well. It might be good to introduce a few more half-rhymes into the first verse, if possible. Like you, I think it needs both verses. The only cut I'd suggest is 'to heaven ' - it spells it out rather, and I like the idea of her climbing without ...
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:31 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Inclusion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2654
Re: Inclusion
I liked it too - agree you could end a little sooner, as discussed. I think Perry has hit on something - I'd imagine this could be true: "The narrator, at one and the same time, seems to be annoyed or repelled by the scene, but also affected by it." - a sort of attempt to stay a bit distanced from i...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:09 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Remembering Zeus
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2564
Re: Remembering Zeus
This is very effective, and it like it. I wonder though about the last line - you've already implicitly mocked the idea that fur could protect, so for me the narrator wishing for it when he already knows it doesn't work seems wrong.
Ros
Ros
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:37 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Elderly Japanese couple, Agrigento (revised)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2159
Re: Elderly Japanese couple, Agrigento
I like it, and don't have any strong suggestions. I think it's very effective.
I'd be tempted, perhaps, to leave the lines long but go for 7 strong stresses per line.
Ros
I'd be tempted, perhaps, to leave the lines long but go for 7 strong stresses per line.
Ros
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:26 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Eating Breakfast While the Rohingya Flee
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2057
Re: Eating Breakfast While the Rohingya Flee
I rather like Tony's rewrite. The title says what the poem is about. The point becomes that, for the narrator, he has the luxury of contemplating his sandwich, leaving unsaid the horrors that others are at that moment experiencing. I found When fleeing through mud to foreign lands, you don’t get to ...
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 3:04 pm
- Forum: Poetry Discussion
- Topic: Armitage
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3788
Re: Armitage
I think this was his application.
I rather liked '(not) someone who is a shop-steward for contemporary values first and a poet second (or third).' No point at all if the poetry doesn't come first.
Ros
I rather liked '(not) someone who is a shop-steward for contemporary values first and a poet second (or third).' No point at all if the poetry doesn't come first.
Ros
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:14 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Lonely Children
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1675
Re: Lonely Children
The only real effect of being an editor is that I get to read a lot of poetry, good and bad. I make no particular claim about the endings of poems in general - my personal preference is for not spelling things out too much. Whether fashions have changed, I don't know. I suppose my comment was really...
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:30 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: Lonely Children
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1675
Re: Lonely Children
I think you could effectively lose the last 5 lines, which rather spell out what the reader has already gathered. I like 'wind-burned and sore', and agree with Ray about the bleed line. I enjoyed this.
Ros
Ros
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: Forum News and Support
- Topic: Meet the new mods (not the same as the old mods)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7674
Re: Meet the new mods (not the same as the old mods)
I am sort of around. Trying to give poetry generally more attention, but other things keep getting in the way. Thanks for stepping up to the plate, Tristan. Everyone seems very well behaved at present.
Ros
Ros
- Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:44 pm
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Antiphon open for submissions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2729
Re: Antiphon open for submissions
Thanks, Tristan - I always love to hear if people have liked the mag. I thought the theme was a bit of a risk but it worked really well.
Ros
Ros
- Fri Sep 21, 2018 10:16 am
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: My Battle with ADHD
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2413
Re: My Battle with ADHD
A day out at Eastnor, perhaps?
I thought it followed the train of thought of an ADHD kid well. I think the title is misleading - implies the writer has ADHD.
I thought it followed the train of thought of an ADHD kid well. I think the title is misleading - implies the writer has ADHD.
- Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:51 pm
- Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
- Topic: Antiphon open for submissions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2729
Antiphon open for submissions
Antiphon issue 23 - submissions now open! We're looking for poems with some link to science, in the broadest sense - poems that stretch beyond the day to day human concerns. Poems that celebrate the vastness of it all, or consider beginnings, or endings, or how we know anything at all. See submissio...
- Sun May 13, 2018 2:32 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
- Topic: May’s bovine stasis
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3904
Re: May’s bovine stasis
Very nice!
- Sun May 13, 2018 2:32 pm
- Forum: Post-a-Poem (Beginners)
- Topic: In Joan's Garden
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3882
Re: In Joan's Garden
Thank you for letting us know, Emmanuel. Yes, it's very similar.
Lovely was banned a while back, though not for plagiarism. If he was still active, I'd be inclined to take action, but since the whole Lovely event was some years ago it's probably best to let the whole thing die now.
Ros
Lovely was banned a while back, though not for plagiarism. If he was still active, I'd be inclined to take action, but since the whole Lovely event was some years ago it's probably best to let the whole thing die now.
Ros