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On Friday 10th November the Writers of San Miguel met for another analytical two hours or so. There were five of us around the table that did give a good range of perspectives.
John Mac. read ‘Tough Love’, a poem inspired in part by the itinerant flower sellers that take their goods through bars and restaurants here in the costas. Emotive and not one word wasted with combinations such as ‘as if the petals/can deflect the blow/from a bunched fist.’ This was followed by ‘Elemental Truths’ that includes ‘Words, sprinkled like diamond dust’ and with lines that contain other elements such as carbon and palladium to name just two.
Nikki brought copies of and read Chapter Two of her book. We went through it line by line with contributions and suggestions coming from around the table. It is so easy to be focused on the story and so easy to miss obvious words, punctuation and to miss exactly what is being said. Again it was only minor tweaking here and there, that was needed. Nikki cannot be with us next time, but in the meantime we can carry on going through on-going chapters. It is good for us too.
John E read two football related poems. One that did not work and one that could be okay. He will give ‘Euphoria’ some more attention, give it a resounding tweak or two and maybe send it in to Hereford FC to which the poem relates. The other one is binned! He had also twenty six verses that are very raw W.I.P and although that is in a sort of poetic form it may become prose. It is something that he is giving serious thought to. Particular remarks were made about his punctuation or more to the point the lack of it. He finds that interesting and will continue with it and read the work of others who lack any punctuation. He has in mind to read more of e e cummings, John Clare and a writer who has just formed a new Stanza in Brecon. His name is Gareth Writer Davies. Don't laugh too much, but David was not impressed.
Now and with everything that has flashed out from our TV screens David has been working on, would you believe Diversity, Allegations and Robots and with a haiku. Here we have Robot Revolution One and Two followed by ‘The predators of power have gone to far!’ and with two haikus. They are more to the point! He and I have been discussing these all week and so his two poems morphed into three and were the better for it. They have been emailed to Margaret who is still ensconced in Sheffield but they were preceded by ‘ a health warning’ as sexism, feminism and abuse of power can invoke strong words. We await her replies! He does not consider that he will send them anywhere, but for him they are more considered (I could say) and less likely to be trashed by a ‘feminist’. I think that he still got away very lightly. He has passed his health tests and will be heading to Murmansk next Friday. We wish him well and I will send him our meetings via email. Likewise we can email him our own work and he will send us his writings and keep us up to date with his publications. Good luck for all of that.
Amy who has been very busy with her own work and course added another perspective and opinion. The more minds the better to examine our writings.
Our next meeting is twenty forth of this month for ten to ten thirty am. That is two weeks today and hopefully Margaret will be back in Spain. However Nikki will not be with us.
Great stuff and more of the same next time when Darlene intends to be with us.
JE
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