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Paul -

I promised not to keep doing this on the thread - so I'll leave my thoughts on The Friendly Dead here:




Jabs

Thanks, Jabs. I appreciate the laurels.

Some of the ideas that I get won't fit into any of the available spots. I wanted to make the friendly dead a short short story, but I had too much to say. If I put it into the thread where the cat and albatross are, it would disrupt whatever plot they have. I can't really enter it in the "Guess the poet" thread, because I have a vested interest in it, being its author.

And, it's pretty far from bad. With practice, some poets (even bad ones) get better. It stands to reason that the level of quality in your bad poetry thread will rise....

Glad my appreciation's appreciated

I think it fits the form you found beautifully, and, well, I like your stuff anyway. This one's as near publishable as dammit, IMO.


Jabs

I mean in addition to it having been published on h2g2, of course...

In another existence, 4/5 years ago, I wrote a (deliberately bad - vogon in fact) poetry column every issue in The Post under a different name to the one I have now and enjoyed it immensely, but it doesn't compare with watching others improve so much.

The thread was often deliberately Bad poetry, often from published works from people like McGonagall, at the start, but now the stuff's all original and hardly ever other than good. It's only a title to take the pressure and pretence out of it, after all. In addition to you, have you seen the phenomenal stuff Kangalew's writing now? To think he started by thinking that poetry should jingle and rhyme. Of course, there are others too.


Jabs

I'm amazed too, Jabs. It's really a great thread that I neglect too much because I'm pulled in so many other directions. For a while I was concentrating on my short short stories. I don't get so many ideas for those these days. The poetic forms are beckoning again. Do I hear the beat of a distant poetic drummer?