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Read this poem by Julie Boden!
The other day I heard this poem read aloud on BBC Radio 4 by the poet herself. I sat amazed, cried, and then applauded!
It describes a life of disillusionment so poignantly, and yet so directly. The fact that it uses, verse by verse, the same rhyming words, dictates that it is also a piece of great economy.
It is when I listen to or read works of such brilliance that I realise why I remain unpublished. I don't measure up.
Mb
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Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:43 pm
woolfie
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Julie Boden
Thanks Mairie I hadnt read Julie Boden before ....Brilliant !
Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:54 pm
Mairi bheag
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Hey Woolfie - she is! It's bloody depressing!
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Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:13 am
woolfie
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Different voice to yours is all, nowt to be be depressed by, just thrilled enough to share, which you were
Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:40 pm
Mairi bheag
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Since when did people say "nowt" in Bedfordshire?
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Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:42 pm
woolfie
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Hmm must've been since the Scots invasion...but for me the habit was picked up in Melbourne Australia from a disolute colleague in our mutually disolute youth I can swear in Italian as well, but that's my father's fault .
Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:42 pm
Mairi bheag
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"Nowt" is pure Lancashire or Yorkshire.
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Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:12 pm
woolfie
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JUst as well learning is good for me then thanks for that but I swear I learnt it from an expat scot.
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Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:16 pm
chordphrute
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*giggles* (I've been to Melbourne)...*giggles more*..
....on another note.. What a poem! Thanks for sharing her with us, love.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:23 am
Mairi bheag
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Yeah we
know
you've been to 'Melbun' sweetheart...
...and yeah it is a cracker.
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