tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post71251133619800008..comments2023-05-07T23:04:41.733+12:00Comments on Winged Ink: Tuesday Poem: 'Grey'Helen Rickerbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652318704387476082noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post-85153397223280468672010-10-31T12:07:23.815+13:002010-10-31T12:07:23.815+13:00Hi, as publisher of Boat People and Abstract Inter...Hi, as publisher of Boat People and Abstract Internal Furniture, I thought they were both good collections to publish. I've published over 20 books of poetry myself and funnily enough there are still poems of mine written when I was 19 that are turning up in anthologies, even though I think I've done better stuff since. Poems have a life of their own. One of my 19 year old poems turns up in Harvey McQueen's These I Have Loved just published. Another in Siobhan Harvey's Our Own Kind: 100 NZ Poems about Animals. Don't worry too much about what you've published. Who really knows what will stand the test of time.Mark Piriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09999627310717567736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post-91339467141658237202010-10-27T11:05:44.605+13:002010-10-27T11:05:44.605+13:00I like this one too -and the layout works very wel...I like this one too -and the layout works very well with the content of the poem.<br /><br />After my second collection was published, I tended to think of my first collection, "Boat People", as being early work that wasn't quite up to the mark. But, now a few more years have gone by, I can see good and bad things about both collections - and some of the poems from "Boat People" are those that get the best response when I read. <br /><br />So I agree with Harvey about not underestimating one's first collection, and I agree that "Abstract Internal Furniture" has many fine poems!Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post-58521216100860599142010-10-26T22:56:52.850+13:002010-10-26T22:56:52.850+13:00Thanks everyone! I shouldn't really dis my own...Thanks everyone! I shouldn't really dis my own book, and actually there are lots of poems I still like in it.Helen Rickerbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652318704387476082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post-90195469960513718762010-10-26T22:22:49.123+13:002010-10-26T22:22:49.123+13:00An oldie maybe ... but still with interesting thin...An oldie maybe ... but still with interesting things to say.Helen Lowehttp://helenlowe.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post-17533749529458980592010-10-26T21:59:00.445+13:002010-10-26T21:59:00.445+13:00I love the way this poem is structured.I love the way this poem is structured.AJ Ponderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625252892255925438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post-41204078697931103012010-10-26T21:26:09.505+13:002010-10-26T21:26:09.505+13:00Helen
This one's good. And never discard thos...Helen<br /><br />This one's good. And never discard those early poems. Every now and then one pops up again as underestimated.<br />Cheers<br />Harveyharveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06635635962581840889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836883051275395430.post-55168856841337452052010-10-26T20:55:14.894+13:002010-10-26T20:55:14.894+13:00I really like how you have laid this one out. Beau...I really like how you have laid this one out. Beautiful.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16717601470424053243noreply@blogger.com