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>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: One of my poems, I would appreciate feedback...
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 03:22:35 +0100


Hi there,
Sorry, I can't find yr name!
Yr poems still make me kind of breathless! So much in a headlong plunge.
Y’ve got lots to say.
So I would like to make a suggestion...
There’s two books I often keep dipping into and maybe start reading a
chapter or paragraph or two again just for the fun of it. One is called
WRITING POETRY by Matthew Sweeney & John Hartley Williams (published in the
Teach Yourself series, 1997) and the other is WRITING POEMS by Peter Sansom
(Bloodaxe, 1994). Both are (I hope) still readily available and I guess you
may find them helpful too. They’re easy reading, not dauntingly technical,
and often put things in ways that stay in the mind to be mulled over later.
Have you come across them?
I guess they’re each like the Word 97 For Dummies I still sometimes have to
look at when I want to do things on this screen-faced machine... And still
usefull to browse through in a spare minute even when I think I know
enough... Of course they may be better books than my broken-spined, yellow,
coffee-stained guide - books for those who can cope with a dryer style or
more technical phrases (and you know about computers so I guess you know
that) - but it taught me enough to feel at ease, get me doing things in
easier ways...
When there’s not much opportunity to meet with other poets, and chat about
writing, the things the guys who wrote the books say are worth hearing,
smiling over, and (if you’re as mad as me) pretending they’re there to hear
what I say in reply. And even if y can get to see and hear other poets, sup
a few bevvies, share the crack, there's still things in the books that can
say (yet) more.
Whaddya think?
Bob



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