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The Poetry Wire - Going From Bard To Verse

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Scorge Oct 2019 8:49pm, 31 Oct 2019 581 posts	Quote Pin Scorge i'm a lazy twat. so i enjoy a haiku. is that it? lovely!
Diogenes Oct 2019 9:07pm, 31 Oct 2019 41,834 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Do you think I should show him my poems?
McGoohan Oct 2019 11:08pm, 31 Oct 2019 41,882 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Yes. Did he look at your etchings? Did he look like his etchings?
Diogenes Oct 2019 11:19pm, 31 Oct 2019 41,837 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes No pipe, but very dry. He had quite hairy fingers.
McGoohan Nov 2019 8:57am, 1 Nov 2019 41,891 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Worrying if he shook hands with someone with similarly hairy hands: it might have been like velcro
Diogenes Nov 2019 9:59am, 1 Nov 2019 41,849 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Brian was not Just as you’d expect He was taller, yet shorter And quite circumspect. He was younger than many But older than most His hair was eclectic Augmented with toast. He talked in a whisper That rattled one’s fillings and swore us to silence About all the killings. He read from his books And an old Yellow Pages Starting at A It went on for ages. He beguiled us with whimsy Then filled us with dread “All of these people Are sadly now dead. No time tonight For questions and answers I’m not signing books” There were uneasy glances. Instead of a biro He drew out a gun “I’ve got all your money Now I must run.” He picked up his satchel Laden with dosh and left us all staggered We’d thought he’d be posh.
Maclennane Nov 2019 10:17am, 1 Nov 2019 21,527 posts	Quote Pin Maclennane superb
Diogenes Nov 2019 11:07am, 1 Nov 2019 41,850 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes I mentioned you to Brian and we had a brief conversation about Tanita Tikaram
Peregrinator Nov 2019 11:41am, 1 Nov 2019 282 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator ^^^ "The Departure of Brian Bilston" - up there with Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" I think.
Diogenes Nov 2019 3:06pm, 1 Nov 2019 41,857 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes A genuine 1 star review of You Took The Last Bus Home on Amazon: "An excellent collection spoiled by the final page. I really enjoyed the poems in this book. I'd heard Refugees used to great effect at a Primary School Assembly. What really spoiled it for me was the mention of Eric Gill on the very last page. Why, I wonder, couldn't some other typeface have been used? Or why did it seem important to draw our attention to Perpetua? The man had sex with his teenage daughters, for goodness sake!"* *To be clear, this allegation is made against Gill, not Bilston.