Hi Bob. You are right that I have written poetry about this tiome and it is 
kind of you to remember.
I have tried to integrate the poetry with the narrative in that part of the 
narrative that inspired the poem in the first place. However, knowing how 
some people react to a poem, recognising it from its very shape on the paper 
sometimes, I have reorganised each poem into a prose form, so that it looks 
and reads like a piece of prose. I know that there is more to a poem than 
just its shape on a piece of paper and anyone who reads it and takes from it 
that which persuaded me towards the poetic form in the first place is 
welcome and anyone who enjoys it for its sound , its mellifluent qualities 
if you like, they too are welcome and for those who feel it is just high 
prose well they, too, are welcome.
    It is a little bit experimental but not unreadably so. I am toying with 
including, either as an appendix or a seperate book, those poems that were 
used in this way.
Even experimenting with an e-book
Arthur
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From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Gill (Arthur)


> Hi Arthur,
> I remember the poems you wrote about your time there!
> And the comments you offered when we were discussing them.
> I guess the mood you created in them, the images and glimpses of the 
> people you met there, will also help make what you're now doing a 
> fascinating read!
> Bob
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>>From: Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Gill
>>Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:57:44 +0100
>>
>>I was in the Solomon Islands for two years. If I had been working in a 
>>college there the story would have been a little boring I think but our 
>>brief wasd to work alongside teachers in their villages, which were deep 
>>in the bush and quite remote. The people there lived in two worlds, the 
>>past of tradition, totem and taboo, living in leaf houses without water , 
>>electricity and roads and  the modern world of education outboard motors, 
>>elections and radio.
>>I shared that strange dichotomy with them. Arthur
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