Re: the door by wuying	15-Aug-02/3:32 AM
Are you inspired by Wordsworth's immortal lines: I've measured it from side to side 'Tis two feet long and three feet wide By any chance?
Re: The Left Book Club by Nicholas Jones	19-Aug-02/3:07 AM
To be honest, the title is a bit of a red herring. The poem's really meant to be about the Spanish civil war (or at least the International Brigade), but could refer to any revolutionary group.
Re: Evensong by Nicholas Jones	6-Sep-02/2:08 AM
Re: School (a sonnet) by Nicholas Jones	6-Sep-02/2:20 AM
Yes, I think the end is too melodramatic. Originally it was where children 'cry', not die, which in retrospect I should have stuck with. But the point is that the school system is designed to stifle individuality and lots of kid suffer terrible trauma, and that's something that needs to be written about.
Re: Evensong by Nicholas Jones	6-Sep-02/2:26 AM
The poem isn't about me in any direct sense, but it's about the struggle to overcome doubts and accept faith. You don't have to believe, but if the alternative is nothing then it seems a good idea to try.
Re: Faucet's got a nasty drip. FUCK! Not again! by <{Baba^Yaga}>	20-Sep-02/1:34 AM
Using the word cunt doesn't make you big and clever, just umimaginative. I managed to cause controversy by saying bombing Afghanistan was wrong - much more satisfying.
Re: Who is it for anyway? by flatliner	20-Sep-02/1:36 AM
If this is ironic, it's very funny - deconstructing empty culture.
Re: Putney at Low Tide by Christof	23-Sep-02/3:48 AM
very elegiac. 'bird beshitten' is fantastic.
Re: Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/4:01 AM
Have you been watching Bargain Hunt? David Dickinson is like a god. Anyway, this is great. I love the idea of selling antiques in the name of socialism. Perhaps I will devote myself to this when I finish my PhD. You bring in history (Cromwell and Ireland) in a way that fits with the poem and is integrated into it.
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/6:35 AM
This is either genius or rubbish (like The Streets). Not quite sure yet.
Re: Life Of Sorrow by squall1leonheart	26-Sep-02/6:37 AM
Is the one very long line deliberate? It is a provocative move that attacks our bourgeois expectations. I think the deliberate spelling mistakes create a sense of naivety that is appealing.
Re: #16 by mikejedw	26-Sep-02/6:41 AM
Hmm, the old if a tree falls in a forest does it make a noise conumdrum. The answer in this case is yes. This is an ironic deconstruction of the solipsism caused by the atomisation of society as a result of neo-liberal free market economics. Or possibly just a beautiful peace of whimsy.
Re: Disbeliever by ThoughtfulSoul	26-Sep-02/6:45 AM
I like the idea of wanting to disbelieve but being unable to. Not sure about the 'do know' construction, though. Otherwise, very nice. God has not talked to me in the phone, but nor has the Pope, and I think he's real. I suggest you go to church on Sunday and see if anything happens in your soul.
Re: Nighttime Conversation by unknown	27-Sep-02/2:51 AM
Ah, the old fruit as sexual metaphor routine. Should really have used a fig, though, rather than an apricot. Much more genital.
Re: Transfixed (#2) by Christof	27-Sep-02/3:20 AM
Interesting. The visual images are very strong. Lots of damage and brokenness. It makes me think of the poem that the guy writes in George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' about wind and poplars.
Re: Transfixed (#2) by Christof	27-Sep-02/3:20 AM
Interesting. The visual images are very strong. Lots of damage and brokenness. It makes me think of the poem that the guy writes in George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' about wind and poplars.