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the title is very Manchester

reminded me of stanley unwin, couldn't understand a word but still funny

don't mention it old bean...oh, I see you haven't!

I really liked it, reminded me of the bit in "Amelie" where she edits the lost letters of her neighbour's husband.

I like the reference to Schrodinger aswell, as long as it remains sealed, the love is both alive and dead.

Good one, well done!

yep, it works, good stuff indeed- i was clicking on the links. Must have been that moving bar making me go dizzy

camus, your web site looks very slick but it did make feel a tiny bit motion sick! Very professional looking though, when's the poetry gonna be on there?

you're so hamfisted

this could go on all night! LOL

very evocative and unsettling- good work

camus wrote:Fine as a little ditty, and I agree totally.

People's views on poetry are so outdated.

"fine as a little ditty" talk about being damned with faint praise!

Cheers Camus

xxxx

Hah hah! Cute and cool, but I think this would be a better ending: One day, I'll apply for a job as a poet and on my CV it will say, "In my spare time, I also write poetry." *** A couple of business points to note re your cv: 1. You need a full stop before the ending-quotation marks in li...

Good to see you again. This was a pleasant reminder to me, as a salesman by day, that we really are the black sheep of society. C'est la vie, say the old folks. It goes to show you never can tell. Cheers, Keith cheers keith- as I said to someone on another board, I now ring a bell wherever I go and...

On my CV, under "Additional information" I dared to say, "In my spare time, I also write poetry". I was told, "This is like admitting you're a train spotter! One look at that, they'll think you're a geek and it'll go straight in the bin! People have 'preconceived ideas' of '...

steve, just put a bag over your head (joke!)- I resorted to a scarf!

someone pm me and tell me what they said, I hate being left in the dark!

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"They tuck me up, my mum and dad" LOL, classic. Sure you can borrow Roger's autobiog - Said and Done is the title. Just don't send me the Kiss one. I'm hanging out for Morrissey's. your pic with the carp, emulates Simmons' obsession for obscurity during the KISS with make-up era! You shou...

that girl wrote:Me and the Pseud.

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ahhhhhhh, that's tweet

I've got the sequel "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" already waiting in the wings! I'm so nosey that I can't resist a good autobiog!

I've just finished Gene Simmons autobiog and would highly recommend it- the title alone is a work of genius "Kiss and make-up"


nuff said...

speaking of Larkin and of autobiogs (I devour autobiogs like they're going out of fashion!) I'm reading Andrew Collins' "Where did it all go so right?" it's about his uneventful childhood in the 70's, a bit of a backlash at all the autobiogs full of angst and repression. He seems to have i...

Cam's bang on. Simple clear design is the way to go. Think about layout, colour, images and font etc, do they all co-ordinate and get your message across? To be at the top of google's results you need to have key words in the site that people will use when searching for poetry sites. It's about kno...

the way i see it, simile is an explicit comparison that flags itself up as such, using "like" or "as" - a metaphor doesn't draw attention to itself in this way and (i think) is composed of a tenor and a vehicle - the tenor being the thing being described, the vehicle being the t...

I think your home page is very confusing. What are you selling? It's certainly not clear from this that you are a poet. The actual poetry page is fine - though the month thing has to go I think. Poetry sites don't have to be flash - just clear, readable and easy to navigate. Not sure why you expect...

hi Cam I use statcounter which is brilliant and I know some of my visitors are actually looking for poetry related topics. It's just baffling why they stop at the first page, not all do though which is nice :wink: I just wondered if my site wasn't eyecatching or interesting enough to make people wan...

Hi Virago. I think it's promising. The content and layout are both good but personally I think you could do something with the design and i'm not keen on the poems displayed by month, but that's just personal preference. You've centred the content which is generally a good move. So really I would l...