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Congrats on the getting the new site going, Kris

Seth

Let me echo those thanks. Thank you Cam and Nikki for all you have done. There was a period of my life when the site meant a huge amount to me in terms of getting to know people and learning about poetry. I repeat: very big thanks indeed. Seth p.s good luck, Kris/Tristan! (I'll certainly be calling ...

Let me echo those thanks.

Thank you Cam and Nikki for all you have done.
There was a period of my life when the site meant a huge amount to me
in terms of getting to know people and learning about poetry.

I repeat: very big thanks indeed.

Seth
p.s good luck, Kris/Tristan!

Thanks, Tristan

I am, like Santa, a visitor...just not often

Well done Mac. I don't much like most of what is usually in Streetcake - Seth knows this, and (I think) attributes it to my fuddyduddyness - but I like your poem. And his, which is typically playful and erudite. Cheers David Thanks, Mac!...congrats. Good to see you there. Thanks, Tristan! Thanks, D...

I'll be in the anthology

An old fave that. Thanks for reminding me of it, Mac

Macavity wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:00 am

Congratulations again Seth. It is good to know that you're still writing/publishing.

all the best

mac

Thanks, Mac
Yes, writing and publishing extensively. Hope you are too!

Seth

JJWilliamson wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 07, 2019 3:20 pm

Very good, Seth, and very well done.

Which poem did they publish?

JJ

It was a poem about Oban Pier on a hot day.

I have a poem in the new Port anthology from Dunlin Press. A nice looking anthology from an interesting press.
It had a launch down at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival...which is a bit far for me to travel though.
As you were.

https://dunlinpress.com/

Congrats, JJ

Gonna recycle this.
Happy festive season everyone!

Ta, JJ and Tristan and Mac

Since Elph/Geoff have raised doubts about the last line, let me join in. Couldn't you just drop "homophonic" as something that explains what the reader should be left to spot?


Seth

Greetings, Luke. Did I see some poems by you in the recent edition of Southlight? I am glad Jules identified the subject matter as I had been somewhat at sea initially. But only initially. Despite your last comment about the abstract, I rather liked the new version. I liked the idea of a channel of ...

Hi Elph, This is great... another poem inspired by Norman MacCaig :-) Due to my lack of knowledge concerning most things, I'm unable to make much headway here at the moment. However, I just thought I'd pop in and mention that I like the 'leopard-skin pill-box hat'... and now the knowledgeable membe...

Well that made me smile, I love the voice, not dowdy just worldly wise And ... a NM poem i wasn’t so familiar wit Elph Thank you very much, Elph. Not sure where I first ran across the MacC "Wild Oats" poem. I think the animal poems tend to get anthologised....the frogs one, the basking sh...

found myself looking down my beak while tilting my head to the left a little. So that was a pleasant end to the working day :lol: Best wishes, Leaf Aha! Glad you did so. Thank you. My apologies for taking you to be male. A few years ago I occasionally visited Wild Poetry Forum....I wonder if it sti...

I see MacCaig has been mentioned. And his farm poem. And Elph has posted his related poem...an old favourite. And now I see Leaf...welcome Leaf...has posted his own MacC related poem. So it may be time for my own MacC connected poem from an edition of the now defunct Keep Poems Alive. The poem that ...

David wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 28, 2019 2:47 pm

Everyone now secretly planning and hoarding submissions, I expect ... although "environs" does seem splendidly vague. Which gives us a lot of scope.

Naturally. I think I have a month to get a sub together don't I? Better check....

Me

Thanks, Mac. On Edward Thomas, I also always liked... TALL NETTLES Tall nettles cover up, as they have done These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough Long worn out, and the roller made of stone: Only the elm butt tops the nettles now. This corner of the farmyard I like most: As well as any bl...

Macavity wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 20, 2019 6:59 am

For those concerned with climate change

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Climate-emergency-poems-Rebel-Talk-1054824368048880/

Thanks, Mac

Hey thanks, Mac! Kind words.

Huzzah! I look forward to it, Tristan.

Although I don't dislike the (occasional) didactic poem, there is, imho, too little here that is specific. It could fit a load of bad events. Of course it might be said that we should not let any such happen. No doubt. But doesn't a warning lose force if it is against something so very general? &quo...