Re: WLPAN by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/3:51 AM
Why do all the best Welsh poets write in English even when, like R.S. Thomas, their first langauge is Welsh? It's a vexed question - I looked at this in my thesis on Edward Thomas and couldn't really come up with one answer. The Welsh language is under siege, in literature at least, and has adopted a very insular mentality. The eisteddfod is such a retrograde institution, but what is the way forward? I like your poem. Speaks the very small bit of Welsh in me.
Re: The Nights Draw In by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/3:55 AM
Thanks especially for the car park attendant's jacket. This is a very warm poem despite the coldness of its subject.
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/1:19 AM
A proper synaesthetic riff - great rhythms
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/2:14 AM
Beautiful. And full of that awful hollowness of loss. But should it be Paris in the last line?
Re: Velvetted by knickytoy	26-Sep-02/2:16 AM
This is both funny and sexy. Love it. I'm looking forward to your poem about cheese.
Re: The Writing Life #2 by poetandknowit	26-Sep-02/2:31 AM
Highly comic and no doubt true.
Re: Conversations with a Clock II by morffrom	26-Sep-02/7:17 AM
Very good! Funny. You're worryingly preoccupied with clocks though. You want to watch that. (Geddit? Oh ha ha). I like this very much.
Re: Disbeliever by ThoughtfulSoul	26-Sep-02/7:21 AM
I think I would lose the last couplet and the word 'fiction' and then this would stand as a perfect statement.
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/7:25 AM
Offices the world over have just been witness to this same conversation. Why does it matter that the boss is gay? All bosses are like this.
Re: Conversation with a Clock III by morffrom	26-Sep-02/7:37 AM
Thank God. Now you can get out at talk to people. Or at least to the birds or soemthing.
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/8:11 AM
Has this changed in any way? What have you done here?
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/8:22 AM
It's always bad when the weather hurts. Hwat have you done to make the sky jealous?
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/8:35 AM
I like the almost concrete verse when you discuss the cuve on the neck. A few typos though - 'breath' not 'breathe', 'discribe' not describe' - but these are merely cosmetic. Deeply sexy.
regarding some deleted poem...	27-Sep-02/2:40 AM
Has this changed since the first time you posted it? I still like it a lot.
Re: Nighttime Conversation by unknown	27-Sep-02/2:43 AM
Is it just me or is this rude and naughty?
Re: Life's Unnoticables by apples_tim	27-Sep-02/2:45 AM
I don't understand what you mean by 'your life is for seen' - do you mean 'foreseen'?
Re: Cover song by bondjedi	27-Sep-02/2:47 AM
Don't listen to him.
Re: West Sands, late afternoon in winter by Nicholas Jones	27-Sep-02/3:40 AM
This is your best yet. I love the idea of barely being there, just being a space defined by the environment around you. And you end it light-heartedly. Bonza. (but a typo - 'estuary' - don't worry about it).
Re: Married by INTRANSIT	27-Sep-02/6:33 AM
Keep the tether - like it or not, it's part of the deal.
regarding some deleted poem...	30-Sep-02/2:25 AM
Oh and I like the poem as well. I too trip up over 'menstruating' - I see your reason for putting it in and maybe the in-your-face effect is deliberate.