36 Views of a Refrigerator Magnet

Brilliant. Much the same attitude I have towards my fiction.

I loved it too... though i'm not sure exactly why. Does that make any sense? It maybe because I don't fully understand it. Is it saying that poet's try to be too clever for their own good... or that they should be? It was very visual though... especially the blade of grass reflecting the mountain... very cool image.

will tate's marvellous...i especially like these few lines which are the ending to his poem Montego Bay looking into the waves I find I can’t remember anything but smiling faces and my hand curling into yours and all the tide and sand and sentimentality that a good working man can stomach.

only just got round to this one. superb. good to see will tate posting stuff again. Vicky, someone once said to me 'you don't necessarily have to understand a poem to appreciate its qualities.' I leant a lot from that and started to understand poetry more from that point on. Drool on the words and the imagery. I've read a lot of Billy Collins' work in the last few months. One line I can't get out of my head is '... and the white cat, looking as if he had just finished his autobiography.' an image of smugness perhaps? but the poem itself (The Literary Life) isn't about being smug or about being part of literary life, it's more about being ordinary, perhaps. or about family life. I'm not really sure, but I am sure I love this poem in the same way I love will's refrigerator magnet