Poetry Forum

Thanks for responding Tristan. Yes, Twitter is awash with haiku at the moment and many are lacklustre to say the least. This is another playful piece and does, hopefully, leave the reader a little deflated to make a point. I love haiku so like to see good ones. And also correct syllables. Cheers Cam

Thank you Ray and Nash. Will ponder the title. The dash just seemed an appropriate break/pause in proceedings.

Sometimes with haiku
We discover that less is
Actually less.

Hi Ray,

I enjoyed this. The last line of the poem is crucial. It is, after all, the punch line. I wondered whether you could employ a rhyme to create a memorable final couplet? Just a thought.
Cam

Thanks very much Tristan. Very good crit. I wasn't aware of the rhymes. The whole thing was just a bit of fun. The seven/teen line break seemed playful and fell just at the haiku/tanka boundary which made me laugh. Yes, a better title? How about 'More is More'? PS will do a crit on someone else's po...

If you can't quite get
Everything you're trying to
Say into seven-
Teen syllables - then what you
Need is a tanka instead.

Future nebulous;
Past unthinkable; present
Locked down but OK.

Impact winter over:
Impact summer uncertain:
Future nebulous.

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I am conscious that I have neglected this place terribly over the years. Other projects and problems ensued, as they say. But, PG reminds me of those wonderful lines from Auden: 'For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where execut...

Slower more slower;
But this train is still moving
After thirteen years.

I've posted a picture of the anthology on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameron_self/8293937594/in/photostream (Hope Kris doesn't mind but I also added his lovely seagull poem to an appropriate seagull picture?) Dedicating the book to Barrie was a very nice touch and placing his (funny and mo...

Fab; thanks to Ben, Rosemary, John and Ian!

Just like to say a big 'thank you' for all the hard work that has gone into this anthology; it looks splendid. Very much looking forward to the arrival of my contributor's copy.

I've added a link from the front page of PG:

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/

Cameron
(absentee landlord)

It's the doing of it, I think, that is important. The completion, even if successful (whatever that means) is somehow a disappointment. The interest (for me) is in the chase: the searching for something, the waiting for something, the arrival of something, the shaping of something, the honing of som...

Classic photograph kj. I won't spoil it for others. Pity Larkin wasn't at the same F&F party. Ted looks like he's sucking a lemon, doesn't he?

Hi Amadeus,

I've just been looking at the PG web stats and I thought you might like to know that this poem is getting hundreds and hundreds of hits. I just tried putting 'Hon T H' etc into Google and it comes up first.

Obviously a significant poem.

Thanks for posting.

C

Last night's George Mackay Brown was very good, I thought. Must have a look at Hamnavoe sometime.

PS - just found it here:

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarch ... oemId=1540

Thanks wab; I'm afraid I haven't looked inside The Rialto for years.

However, Mr Mackmin has just agreed to do a 'Lit Norfolk' interview for me - so if anyone has any questions they'd like asked please let me know.

Cheers
Cam

Yea, he makes them look so easy doesn't he? But as anyone who entered the PG sonnet competition a few years back will know - they can be right little buggers. He also provided me with helpful geographical info about the sonnets: 'You may be interested to know that the warehouse in the first section ...

Here they are:

http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/Poems/ ... fields.htm

Mighty fine sonnets IMO.

Yes, he's been very helpful. He's also amazingly prompt. I've emailed him a couple of times now to request use of his poems and the attachment comes back by return of post. In fact, I'm just about to post up 12 of his sonnets entitled: Norfolk Fields . I'll add the link to this thread when they're u...

Some of you may be interested in my latest interview on Literary Norfolk:

http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/george ... erview.htm

This one:

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/poemsbycam ... inter.html

and this one:

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/poemsbycam ... Start.html

I had 2 poems published in 'The Rialto' back in the 1980s. The mag is run by a chap called Mike Mackmin who lives at Aylsham in Norfolk. By day he works as a Gestalt therapist and I bumped into him years ago while doing voluntary work for a drug and alcohol charity. I found, however, that he didn't ...

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