I asked a friend to do me the favour of casting a critical eye over my latest manuscript before I submit it. One thing she queried was my practice of not capitalising the initial letter of every line of my poems. Evidently she is more comfortable with the convention of initial capitals.

For the sake of others who may be interested in this question, ( Read more... )

(I don't much, here, but in other places...)

My blog on MySpace had had 30957 views last time I looked. Those people have given me ‘kudos’ for my writing only 1386 times, and I have received only 2130 comments.  Some have been from the same people returning over and over again. Even so, I think that’s a lot more people than would find and like my ( Read more... )

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At a recent session with PsychLady I spoke of my passionate love of beauty, all kinds of beauty, and my sorrow at not being beautiful myself. I explained that this is why I began writing poetry when I was very young - I wanted to add to the beauty of the world, and for me poetry was the most beautiful thing a human could create.

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Ecstatic write-up at the WordsFlow blog.

"far on the ringing plains of windy Troy" (from Tennyson's Ulysses) - for no better reason than the music of it, and the evocativeness, indeed the POETRY. And that it can be taken out of context and still be every bit as wonderful. (This does not mean Tennyson's my favourite poet, not even close - but when he's good, he's marvellous.)

Is at Poetic Asides.

I'm participating. NaNoWriMo for poets, lol.  Don't expect me to be active nor even very present here for the month!

Find my poems among hundreds of others (many marvellous!) at Poetic Asides, or on my blog The Passionate Crone - or join my Google group of Rosemary's Readers to have them float into your personal inbox as ( Read more... )

This comes from my MySpace friend John Peele:

T.H.E. Reasons Why I Became A Poet The following, in no particular order, are the new Top Hundred Eleven
(111) reasons why I became a poet : Feel free to use any or all of
these as an excuse to compose a verse of your own! (Void where
prohibited! Not recommended for ( Read more... )

Poem removed from syllabus for reference to knife violence:
Guardian report

The poet's riposte:
Mrs Schofield's GCSE

An even more amusing response:
Education for Leisure

The absolutely lovely John Hewitt over at PoeWar (Writer's Resource Centre) is all set to repeat his successful game from last year: 30 poems in 30 days as soon as we hit September. It was such lovely fun last time! He is very good at thinking up interesting and innovative prompts; no-one better.

Last September I found myself writing on topics and ( Read more... )