VeraClark
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An interesting and
Posted on Wed, 15 Jul 2015
An interesting and specialised topic makes for a good read. This sentence: ' On taking on this role' might sound better starting with 'In' to reduce the ons! A strong narrative voice that could be even more powerful if you tightened your gargoyle...
Read full commentPosted in Gargoyles
Modern, colloquial, has a
Posted on Sat, 11 Jul 2015
Modern, colloquial, has a tang of people's moral advice in it and most of all, nails council estate life and is refreshingly upfront.
Read full commentPosted in Up to Here with the Weather...
I used to love Little Ted. It
Posted on Wed, 08 Jul 2015
I used to love Little Ted. It's really powerful, this, a real spare and poignant pinning down of neglect. Your windows - well, their windows - offer a place of hope, a sense of child normality and it taunts the child with what he has to face.
Read full commentPosted in "Get Ready To Play. It's..." ( Poetry Monthly)
Such unusual touches to
Posted on Wed, 08 Jul 2015
Such unusual touches to describing the scenes - cabbage leaf crinkles and cawing Lords. It's visually rewarding but full of sound, too. A charming piece.
Read full commentPosted in 'You've Been Framed!' (Poetry Monthly)
Love's rarely permanent and
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2015
Love's rarely permanent and it shape shifts - this poem nails that through memory and the structures of the house - fragility, repair, age, youth. It's such a beautiful piece.
Read full commentPosted in The Old House By The Sea
Wistful and touching,
Posted on Tue, 30 Jun 2015
Wistful and touching, captures that hard to pin down longing and strangeness of strangers so well. Could the 'but' before 'once' go or are you attached to it? Is it more impact without? A dreamy piece.
Read full commentPosted in Madame Maserati - Reprise
The perspective of this
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
The perspective of this delivers and the imagery so powerful. 'trauma in your daughter's hair' is my favourite line. Says so much.
Read full commentPosted in ‘What Say You?’
Go on! Go for it.
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
Go on! Go for it.
Read full commentPosted in Another poem for my boyfreind
'Allo allo. I'd cut 'indeed'
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
'Allo allo. I'd cut 'indeed' and re-consider 'was totally wrong for the job.' Maybe 'wasn't cut out for the job?' The words stuck out in an otherwise sculpted piece. See what you think. Stick your tongue out if you disagree. Perhaps you could pin...
Read full commentPosted in Flight of the Bumblebee
Tina, read this in dead of
Posted on Mon, 15 Jun 2015
Tina, read this in dead of night and forgot to comment because bairn suddenly slept. It's lovely - traditional verse form, fresh summery images and imagined with vivid scenery and sadness at its close.
Read full commentPosted in Boy Blue (Poetry Monthly)
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