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211 of my comments have received 222 Great Feedback votes

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Really impressive, Mark --

Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020

Really impressive, Mark -- well done. 

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No worries --  I think it

Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020

No worries --  I think it conveys this idea of there being a kind of beauty in how existence and suffering are intertwined. However, that could just be my mindset on a Monday morning before a 3-hour meeting. 

 

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Really enjoyed the elemental

Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020

Really enjoyed the elemental feel of this.

I genuinely don't know how you keep control of that final stanza, but it's seriously impressive -- it reads like a wave, if that makes sense (probably not!). Anyway, nice one. 

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This made me laugh -- Mickey

Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2020

This made me laugh -- Mickey reminds me of a lot of seasoned hacks I used to work with.

Good stuff. 

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Really well-captured and

Posted on Wed, 02 Sep 2020

Really well-captured and evocative poem. Where I'm living at the mo actually backs onto this forest -- I'd say you nailed it! 

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Posted in Peace In The Forest

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Mission accomplished. This

Posted on Fri, 21 Aug 2020

Mission accomplished. This has made me want to rewatch Wild Strawberries. 

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Yes, I get that after For All

Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020

Yes, I get that after For All We Know you might want a break (which is fantastic by the way). I also think story cycles are deceptively hard to do – I spent ages on a book about an estate but I couldn’t get it right. It was horrific.

I...

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I could see this like a film

Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020

I could see this like a film short. Superb. Have you ever read Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson? It's worth a read. You could create characters in a town set in Ireland in the same way.

Anyway, this made me laugh out loud. Cracking.

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Yes, you've hit the nail on

Posted on Mon, 03 Aug 2020

Yes, you've hit the nail on the head with this Luigi. I sometimes think this vile pandemic is just a little taster of what's to come if we don't act soon. 

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The style of this feels

Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020

The style of this feels different. Love how the voice carries you along -- the ending didn't quite land for me, though (I think it's the mass depondency paragraph). 

However, this did remind me an episode of Kilroy, where a bloke from...

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