Hi Gill, Sally,
Gill, you write: "But now I crave colour, joy, delight in the world around 
us - it's not a bad old place and we're hardly here for very long....
And I'm butting in to say that somewhere in the jumble of the back of my 
mind, that's a bit like a garage that's too full to contain a car, I have a 
recollection of someone saying that Dante said: "the only poems worth 
anything are praise poems."
So you're in good company!
Bob


>From: Gill McEvoy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: discussion topic: series of poems- to Giull, sorry!
>Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:42:53 -0000
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>Dear Sally, it is about Clinton, yes, his affair with Monica. But it is 
>very well done: the 2 of them found some marvellous flower names: Monarda 
>Didyma for Monica for example, and it is very witty. No longer so topical 
>of course...I know politics are best avoided, but wit is a really special 
>thing. Wit doesn't seem very popular any more. I open so many poetry mags 
>and there are a thousand poems about cancer, death, dementia, old 
>age....Goodness knows I've been through one of that list and written about 
>it too. But now I crave colour, joy, delight in the world around us - it's 
>not a bad old place and we're hardly here for very long....
>best wishes,
>sincerely,
>Gill
>----- Original Message ----- From: "sally evans" 
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>Subject: Re: discussion topic: series of poems- to Giull, sorry!
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>>Gill. get them to try me. I thought it was Gerald writing that at first
>>cheers
>>SallyE
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>>on 21/2/06 1:44 pm, Gerald England at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>>>--- Gill McEvoy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>>And also why is it hard for a jointly penned poem to
>>>>get published? I ran a
>>>>workshop based on Elma Mitchell's poem "Lifecycle of
>>>>the Moth" in which the
>>>>poet uses only the common names of the moths to tell
>>>>a story. We used the
>>>>names of flowers and birds to make a story-poem and
>>>>2 people (we worked in
>>>>pairs as I only had a few flower books/ bird books)
>>>>produced a stunning poem
>>>>called "Clinton's Lily" which they can't seem to get
>>>>published under 2
>>>>names. Any advice?
>>>>best wishes to everyone,
>>>>Gill
>>>
>>>
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