Hi Gill,
Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed your chapbook. I had a good read 
of it over the weekend and thought it was wonderful - moving andf poignant, 
but ultimatwely very uplifting. Particular favourites were Bread and Message 
To The Well Meaning, but there were plenty of others that really made me sit 
up and I'll be re-reading it again and again.
Best wishes,
Matt

>From: Gill McEvoy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: new post. The Bath.
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:35:00 +0100
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>Matt, thanks very much for this. Those first lines are definitely 
>going....!
>I feel exhausted right now post book launch but when energy returns I'll 
>start sending in comments again. I have been enjoying the poems I've read 
>here but typed appreciation is beyond me at the moment.
>best wishes,
>Gill
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Merritt" 
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>>Hi Gill,
>>I think I agree with Liz that the first line seems a bit redundant, given 
>>the title - I think you could probably lose it entirely.
>>The rest of the poem is lovely, though, and I especially liked
>>"'Take your time', you said, and in that time
>>I cruised islands of warm sand and soft ocean,
>>woodlands moist with leaves and mist,
>>summer days with bright red berries blinking out
>>from golden straw,"
>>It is a very difficult subject to write about, but I think the combination 
>>of a fresh angle and the first-hand experience and emotion really shine 
>>through here.
>>Regards,
>>Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: Gill McEvoy <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: new post. The Bath.
>>>Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:22:29 +0100
>>>
>>>I apologise to you all that I haven't posted/commented lately; been very 
>>>busy with the launch of "Uncertain Days" my first chap book. But it's 
>>>sailed away now, and I'm back to normal things again.
>>>
>>>This poem was written recently  - and no doubt wants much improving - but 
>>>it comes from 6 years ago when I was so ill I was in the local Hospice 
>>>for a while, where a very kind Irish nurse gave me the best bath of my 
>>>life!
>>>
>>>The Bath.
>>>
>>>The point of that bath was not to be clean -
>>>I had gone nowhere but my bed and
>>>was already washed.
>>>You came to tell me it was run,
>>>walked before me, your arms full of towels,
>>>as if I were a lady and you my maid.
>>>You helped me in, your hands tender for my safety;
>>>I sank into a sweetness of heat and foam,
>>>each burst bubble like a letting go of pain.
>>>'Take your time', you said, and in that time
>>>  I cruised islands of warm sand and soft ocean,
>>>woodlands moist with leaves and mist,
>>>summer days with bright red berries blinking out
>>>from golden straw, came back
>>>to you wrapping me gently in hot towels.
>>>It was like those nights of perfect sleep,
>>>soft, starless, bliss.
>>>
>>>Gill McEvoy.
>>>
>>>I'd be very glad of comments.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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