Comments on: More About the Song by Rachel Fox http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/more-about-the-song-by-rachel-fox/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:06:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ketty Lee http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/more-about-the-song-by-rachel-fox/comment-page-1/#comment-111238 Ketty Lee Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:34:17 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1278#comment-111238 Thank you very much for your great post! I really liked it. I will advise friends to visit your site. Thank you very much for your great post! I really liked it. I will advise friends to visit your site.

]]> By: napkins http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/more-about-the-song-by-rachel-fox/comment-page-1/#comment-110916 napkins Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:27:02 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1278#comment-110916 nice post and i like your writing :-) thanks for sharing me this great post and keep up your good post have a nice day .... :-) nice post and i like your writing :-)
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]]> By: Rachel Fox http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/more-about-the-song-by-rachel-fox/comment-page-1/#comment-109958 Rachel Fox Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:08:21 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1278#comment-109958 You've written some marvellous things in here, John, really made me beam with pride a couple of times! I am a big fan of the Liverpool poets and Larkin but I've never heard of Robert Service - I will go and look him up. As for the small print on 'History' - you're right to pick me up on it but I will try and explain how it ended up like that. I went backwards and forwards on that one (a lot!) as I wanted to include the poem but I HATE changing line lengths or having lines go over onto two when I feel/hear/see them as one. It was my decision to shrink it (I did try lots of other options) and in actual fact there are a couple of other places were the print size changes but less dramatically so. In the end I went with this option because the lines matter more to me than the aesthetics...and I know that's an unusual point of view...but because I use so little punctuation the lines are kind of fundamental for me. One of my big themes (fanfare, please) is mistakes, failures, the admitting of, the learning to live with...so let my odd print sizes be mine! There was another point - I think that poem is kind of unusual for me (tackling something so huge...) so I didn't mind it looking a little different too. To me it made some sense...but then I am very good at coming up with explanations after the fact... Thanks again for all the great comments and thanks, above all, for reading. x <strong>jb says</strong>: Good to see you here, Rachel. Write us another poem, eh? You’ve written some marvellous things in here, John, really made me beam with pride a couple of times!
I am a big fan of the Liverpool poets and Larkin but I’ve never heard of Robert Service – I will go and look him up.
As for the small print on ‘History’ – you’re right to pick me up on it but I will try and explain how it ended up like that. I went backwards and forwards on that one (a lot!) as I wanted to include the poem but I HATE changing line lengths or having lines go over onto two when I feel/hear/see them as one. It was my decision to shrink it (I did try lots of other options) and in actual fact there are a couple of other places were the print size changes but less dramatically so. In the end I went with this option because the lines matter more to me than the aesthetics…and I know that’s an unusual point of view…but because I use so little punctuation the lines are kind of fundamental for me.
One of my big themes (fanfare, please) is mistakes, failures, the admitting of, the learning to live with…so let my odd print sizes be mine! There was another point – I think that poem is kind of unusual for me (tackling something so huge…) so I didn’t mind it looking a little different too. To me it made some sense…but then I am very good at coming up with explanations after the fact…

Thanks again for all the great comments and thanks, above all, for reading.
x

jb says: Good to see you here, Rachel. Write us another poem, eh?

]]> By: Thomas http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/more-about-the-song-by-rachel-fox/comment-page-1/#comment-109946 Thomas Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:48:50 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1278#comment-109946 Thanks john. I loved the first one. <strong>jb says</strong>: Should be thanks, Rachel, really. But it's good to know you're not watching <em>the fireworks And the end of the world rock concert</em>. Thanks john. I loved the first one.

jb says: Should be thanks, Rachel, really. But it’s good to know you’re not watching the fireworks
And the end of the world rock concert.

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