Ranger6 May 2006

I did wonder whether you'd dislike this poem, knowing that you are a Plath fan and a Shakespeare disliker, as you've said to me before. I'm the opposite; I can't stand Plath (in fairness I have always been horribly biased against her since first reading that awful snowsuit story years ago, but what little else I dared to read since then did nothing to sway my opinion), whereas I love a gripping yarn of olde. Now, there is a purpose to me saying that; namely that I tried to write this with the intention that even someone who wasn't enamoured of religious or oldey-worldey literature could enjoy it, it's clear that I now have some work to do to remedy its shortcomings.
Anyway, I'll stop there. I know this sounds colossally defensive; it's not meant to - my purpose in this is to find out how I can change the style of my writing to become more readable to a wider audience. The way I've wanted my poetry to go recently clearly hasn't worked...time to go back to basics, methinks.

Thanks again for taking the time to read and write your thoughts, they can only help me improve.