h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have just read your poetry piece in this week and think you make a fantastic poet and writer. Keep up the good work. I'm rooting for you.

What can I say but 'Thank you'

If only a publisher would think the same!!

If you haven't see it - go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F2138804?thread=6316476&latest=1 I didn't send it to the post because I thought that they might think the last line BEEB politically incorrect. It hasn't been yiked yet!!

Well I guess the BBC's h2g2 is a publisher of sorts Don't give up on trying to get your work put in books etc. Enter all the competitions you find and your hard work I'm sure will pay off.

for letting me have a pre-glimpse at your written piece and well done on getting it into I can see what you mean it is controversial. However, some of the most prominent characters in history and pieces of writing have been controversial.

Thank you again.

Yes - the BeeB is a publisher (of sorts) but pays nothing. However it is nice to 'get read' and the feedback is helpful (whether critical or complimentary)

It is odd though. I can recite pomes, non stop - for about four hours and the mothers here (in Morocco) bring their babies to me to get thm to sleep. I get through about the second 'fit' of the Hunting of the Snark and they are comatose.

And yet I cannot remember a single pome that I have ever written!!

Strange

I wonder how many times you have recited your poetry...is it less than the times you've recited other people's? If so this may be why.

I have never recited a single poem that I have written. I write them (in an incredibly short time as - if I have to think about them, I just stop) and that is the end of it. There is but one that I can remember (a 'LITTLE WILLY' acrostic) that I CAN remember and the odd thing is, is that I wrote it by hand NOT on the Mac.

Wot ‘appen?

Willie – when he reached eleven,
Obtained an AK47,
Trained it on his great aunt Mable,
And shot her as she laid the table.

Pa-pa – waiting for his meal,
Praised the child – though he did feel,
Even if the boy was right,
Now there’ll be no tea tonight.

A teacher once said to me when I was revising for my exams that to remember something it should be repeated seven times. Write it down, record it aloud and play it back to you. I know some places like to see and hear poetry. Go along be brave and offer it up.

I found myself dancing yesterday on stage and have been up in front of audiences before. focus on what you are doing at first rather than the audience you have in front of you. My downfall is mirrors if I see one I get sidetracked ...I don't know why but they really do put me off.

Anyway I am waffling...I'll let you get back to what you do best writing

There aren't many such places in Casablanca!

However, the vast number of children in my wife's extended family all demand that I recite them Carol, Lear, Milne, Struwwelpeter and Harry Graham - the tons of nonsense pomes that I was brought up on and are ever etched on my brain. They don't understand a single word but 'know' the different pomes.

I suspect I could be arrested for reciting the Hunting of the Snark to Moroccan children - certainly the Dong with the Luminous Nose is highly questionable - but such rhymes send them to sleep.

I think that my mama's remark - a few years ago - "Nice doggerel dear" switched something on in my brain (like learning any foreign language) that acts as a firewall and says, 'you don't need this'.

Oh dear Could you not organise one?

It's nice to have an audience and one that you