replying on Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 1,087 by Nicholas Jones
14 Jun 2004, 8:53 AM
What have golf clubs got to do with anything?
replying on Lovely as a Lapland Night: Sort of a Sonnet by Nicholas Jones
26 May 2004, 6:50 AM
Well, it's certainly a pseudo-sonnet. I'm glad you like the colon thing, it's supposed to be slightly scientific and technical. Don't ask me what the title means though.
replying on Lovely as a Lapland Night: Sort of a Sonnet by Nicholas Jones
26 May 2004, 6:32 AM
You could argue it's not quite a sonnet because the now: and so: things often add extra stresses to the lines, which aren't always proper iambic pentameters.
I like the use of the colon. It suggests a sense of cause and effect, and messes about with the rhythm.
I like the use of the colon. It suggests a sense of cause and effect, and messes about with the rhythm.
on The Ballad of Fraser Allonby Q.C., Barrister-At-Law by wFraser Allonby Q.C.w
21 May 2004, 4:25 AM
Have you been watching Cavanagh QC?
replying on Re-drafting by Nicholas Jones
21 May 2004, 4:24 AM
It felt amazing, actually. I got presented with cheque for 250 dollars at a fancy luncheon at the SCMLA convention, where I got a huge slab of beef with two pieces of potato. I travelled to Arkansas (which is a long way from Swansea) to talk about an obscure Welsh poet. Plus it looks very good on my CV and allows me to impress people at parties.
I am slightly perturbed as to how you found this out and whether you are somehow electronically stalking me.
I am slightly perturbed as to how you found this out and whether you are somehow electronically stalking me.
on opening time? by wormsy
12 May 2004, 3:09 AM
I've always assumed that, in the original, the half rhyme was meant to imply that really Dr. Foster had stepped in a piddle right up to his middle, and it was in fact a sewage related incident.
on Sonnet on an Operating Table by Sasha
12 May 2004, 3:06 AM
This good, I like the attempt to bring in the sounds of the situation. And it makes me think of 'Lady Godiva's Operation' by the Velvet Underground, which is a great song.
Here comes the moment of great decision
As the doctor is making his first incision.
Here comes the moment of great decision
As the doctor is making his first incision.
replying on Haiku Gymraeg by Nicholas Jones
12 May 2004, 3:01 AM
Diolch yn fawr.
replying on Style / Ffordd by Nicholas Jones
12 May 2004, 2:58 AM
Ysgrifennais i yn yr iaith achos dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg. Dw i'n dysgu nawr ers tua dwy flynedd. Dw i'n eisiau gweld os dw i'n gallu ysgrifennu yn ail iaith.....probably this is riddled with grammatical mistakes - mae'n flin 'da fi. Feel free to correct the poem if it doesn't make sense.
Dw i'n gwneud PhD yn llenyddiaeth o Gymru yn Saesneg. Ac mae diddordeb mawr gyda fi yn llenythiaeth Gymraeg. Dw i'n lico Gwenallt a Waldo Williams.
Dw i'n gwneud PhD yn llenyddiaeth o Gymru yn Saesneg. Ac mae diddordeb mawr gyda fi yn llenythiaeth Gymraeg. Dw i'n lico Gwenallt a Waldo Williams.
replying on The Influence of Anxiety by Nicholas Jones
7 May 2004, 6:54 AM
Why can't poetry reflect on ideas, not just imagery or feelings? Yours is a fundamentally anti-intellectual position. And how do you know what poetry is anyway? Like Wittgenstein said, there are things we recognise without being able to define.
replying on The Influence of Anxiety by Nicholas Jones
7 May 2004, 6:48 AM
This is not an essay. And if you think it isn't poetry, you're defining poetry in a particular manner, which is precisely what pissed me off in the first place.
And I don't suppose anybody has noticed the reference to Pound's Canto XXXVIII, have they?
And I don't suppose anybody has noticed the reference to Pound's Canto XXXVIII, have they?
replying on The Influence of Anxiety by Nicholas Jones
7 May 2004, 6:46 AM
Bloomsday is the day in 1904 on which Ulysses is set. But of course it links to Harold Bloom and antithetical criticism too.
on Samurai by SupremeDreamer
4 May 2004, 2:22 AM
Have you been watching Kill Bill? This is delightfully absurd in the same manner.
on Jesus-f-ingChrist I'm Sober by embersandenvelopes
1 Apr 2004, 7:33 AM
Why do you feel the need to censor your own use of the word 'fucking'? Are you so ground down by the repressive culture of your country you can't even bear to type it out properly?
replying on Style / Ffordd by Nicholas Jones
30 Mar 2004, 3:58 AM
That is fantastic. Do you know any other languages? Chinese would be fun.
I wonder if the different languages affect the meaning of the poem. Now there's something to contemplate.
I wonder if the different languages affect the meaning of the poem. Now there's something to contemplate.
replying on Style / Ffordd by Nicholas Jones
26 Mar 2004, 1:42 AM
But I can't speak Spanish. Only Welsh, badly. If you want to translate it into Spanish for me, go for it. The second verse paragraph says the same thing as the first one, but in Welsh.
replying on Windfarm by Nicholas Jones
5 Mar 2004, 4:16 AM
The repeated as-s were deliberate, but maybe they don't work. I dont think on the past tense it would have quite the same effect. The phrase about the news is fairly odd, but again that's deliberate, trying to find slightly off kilter ways of saying things. But I'm glad you liked it, and thank you for your constructive commetns.
on Insomnia by dreamsdiefirst
16 Feb 2004, 7:08 AM
There's nothing like a good poem about insomnia. And this is nothing like one. Bomm and, indeed, boom, as Basil Brush might say.
replying on Notes toward a possible poem by Nicholas Jones
6 Feb 2004, 6:57 AM
It isn't supposed to be easy. But I'm glad you liked it.