I think I'd be prepared to lose a pinky to save my poems, but not an arm or 
a leg.

I like the idea of vertical transmission of your poems (as opposed to 
horizontal). I've had the same idea. At the very least children and 
children's children and ...er...let's add in nieces and nephews.... may take 
an interest in them, because of the family connection, and at a stroke 
achieve more lognevity than you'd have thro' sending them off to hundreds of 
magazines or reading to thousands. Throw in antique value and hey you don't 
even need to get involved with "merit". Even my Great Aunt's school jotter 
has value, because she's a relative and because she wrote in it during the 
Boer war. It's true that there may be some flippancy or just lack of 
interest: "This was Great Uncle Woppert's disc. He fancied himslef as a 
poet. What a joke." Against that there's the possibility of it being a 
resource, something that can put people in touch with how their relative 
lived. Perhaps they'll go on to write something better. Perhaps they'll say, 
"it's not the man but the music that matters".


Colin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: An old love poem /sally J


> Gosh hmm how would I feel if all my poems were lost forever. Hmm well very 
> sad as I don't often send away for publication. So except for those that 
> are published and those that I have given away few would survive. But my 
> daughter says if anything happens to me she would like my poems and they 
> are all over the house on the computer on backs of old envelopes and other 
> scribbled meanderings arestacked in cardboard  boxes in odd corners.  So 
> she will have a job on getting them together.  But I suppose I could 
> always write some more in the hope that these would be better than the 
> lost ones.
> I am in the process of gathering together all my scribbles and trying to 
> set them in some kind of order in case I pop my clogs. I could call this 
> the "Collected meanderings of an eclectivly deranged woman" .bw Sally J
>
>
>>From: Colin Dewar <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: An old love poem /sally J
>>Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:56:41 -0000
>>
>>Sally J,
>>
>>Yes it's curious how poems acquire subjective value. You can ask yourself, 
>>if your house burnt down and as a result, every poem you'd written were 
>>lost how this would compare to losing all your money, or other material 
>>possessions.
>>
>>
>>Colin
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:13 PM
>>Subject: Re: An old love poem sally
>>
>>
>>>Thank you Gary. I have been known to search the rubbish bins for lost 
>>>poems but now I write straight on to the computer I reckon I am at more 
>>>risk from losing them if I don't save. Thanks agian Sally J
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>Subject: Re: An old love poem sally
>>>>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:48:52 -0800
>>>>
>>>>  Sally in case you need it here is also PK
>>>>
>>>>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PK-POETRY-LIST.HTML
>>>>
>>>>this one takes a password for most things you do
>>>>
>>>>My advice, set up a Yahoo forum for your work and when you send to The 
>>>>Works
>>>>also send to there.  I takes a least 2 people as members and you have to
>>>>post once a month.  I send everything I post here to Yahoo also.
>>>>
>>>>And save on my computer and a flash card.
>>>>
>>>>All that comes from the massive die-off in 2004 and a minor one last 
>>>>year.
>>>>
>>>>Smiles and good luck.
>>>>
>>>>Gary
>>>
>