on No sally, lay your troubles to bed by Crakyamuni
12 Oct 2002, 6:40 AM
Have you been reading T.S. Eliot?
on some deleted poem
14 Oct 2002, 1:36 AM
You manage to be descriptive and also political. The poor are still with us, just ebtter hidden. This all sounds much like the market in Stockport, where I grew up. We need more poetry about the north of England.
on some deleted poem
14 Oct 2002, 1:37 AM
And everybody wonders why kids send death threats to their teachers. School are factories where they teach oppression. I bet the kids want to shout at you.
on Dying for a Dowry by Blue Magpie
14 Oct 2002, 1:27 AM
The problem is its easy to disapprove of other people's cultural practices. When Britain conquered india, they declared the practice of suttee illegal, and in some ways it became a way of resisting imperial rule. It clearly is barbaric, but attacking it from outside raises comples moral issues.
There's a well-known article by the post-colonial theorist Gayatri Spivak called 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' which addresses this issue, and is very good, if hard going.
There's a well-known article by the post-colonial theorist Gayatri Spivak called 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' which addresses this issue, and is very good, if hard going.
on some deleted poem
14 Oct 2002, 1:33 AM
This a great description of a student lifestyle, but we aren't all like that. I had a shower this morning. I absolutely agree, however, that all union bars are full of wankers. At the end you seem to equate happiness with having money, which is pretty damn materialistic.
on American Poem by ASTRO-GLIDE
12 Oct 2002, 6:30 AM
Is it more cowardly to fly a plane into a building and die, or to drop bombs on an Afghan wedding from an enormous height where you are safe? And people said my poem 'Recent History' was naive!
on Happy hour by flatliner
12 Oct 2002, 6:04 AM
Sounds like you had a good night. Hope you're not too hungover.
on Irony by w~* ATHENA *~w
12 Oct 2002, 6:08 AM
As Alanis Morrissette would say, isn't it ironic?
Who is L. Ron Hubbard? I think I recognise the name, but I'm not sure.
Who is L. Ron Hubbard? I think I recognise the name, but I'm not sure.
on bitterness to tenderness to endlessness by Crakyamuni
12 Oct 2002, 6:42 AM
Don't listen godswife. There's nothing wrong with dogs in trances.
on Limmerick, Starring Andy by MuDvAyNe
12 Oct 2002, 7:11 AM
Superb!
on some deleted poem
12 Oct 2002, 6:11 AM
It's nice to admit you don't have a clue. If only all your countrymen were as modest and willing to accept their failings the world would be safer.
on I don't fit in by devina
12 Oct 2002, 6:18 AM
I don't fit in either. Anywhere. You need to find your own little niche. Or you'll end up like George III, the mollusc king who never found his rock. We're all molluscs, and we all need our rocks, but some of us find it harder than others. Or something.
on The Waking by Brennan
11 Oct 2002, 5:48 AM
I like this a lot, but is 'constrewed' a word? Do you mean construed, or constrained? If you've made it up, that's ok, though - Shakespeare did it all the time, so you're in good company.
on The Thought Of It by Christof
11 Oct 2002, 5:50 AM
Very nice indeed. I like the use of curled, and then curdled.
on Safe Distance, 10-10-02 by Frass
11 Oct 2002, 5:59 AM
This is very brave, but perhaps it's all too close to write about.
on more{Porn*Star}{Hai*kus} by horus8
11 Oct 2002, 6:13 AM
Wow! That's big and clever.
on some deleted poem
11 Oct 2002, 6:31 AM
I like the deliberate archaicism; it's good to write in a way that's unusual.
on some deleted poem
11 Oct 2002, 7:33 AM
I like your theme - despair makes all the best poetry.
on some deleted poem
11 Oct 2002, 7:34 AM
There's nothing necessarily wrong with simple rhyming words. Simplicity can be a great strength.