Re: a comment on Recent History by Nicholas Jones	20-Sep-02/4:21 AM
Maybe it isn't poetry, but then I don't liking making judgements about what poetry is and what it should deal with. Poetry can do anything. Even rhythm isn't always required. Anything can be fashioned into poetry, and the point is to use discourses that are all around us and turn them into art - just as some people utilise working class language or slang, I'm trying to use the language of the media, the dominant discourse in modern western life, and make something out of it. Perhaps it doesn't work, but I think it is an idea worth pursuing.
Re: a comment on Regime Change by Nicholas Jones	20-Sep-02/4:17 AM
I love the fact that I wrote a political poem and it brought forth torrents of xenophobia and even a little homophobia - not quite sure where that came from. Have any of you people heard of irony? Or the dramatic monologue - the narrator of a poem is not always the author. By the way, more people were killed by US bombing than died on September 11. And 9,000 people die of AIDS each day, the majority in sub-Saharan Africa. Pup that in your pipe and smoke it.
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: 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: 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: 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-02/2:08 AM
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: 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?