tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20689202.post2110408110871916859..comments2023-09-20T15:18:48.091+01:00Comments on Gareth Calway - Bard On The Wire: In MemoriamGareth Calwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09746500144933362628noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20689202.post-44811994668564284212013-05-14T21:19:34.070+01:002013-05-14T21:19:34.070+01:00I really enjoyed these particular poems. I had on...I really enjoyed these particular poems. I had one of those staring into the distance remembering moments which lasted for ages. Cigarette stubbers on the backs of the seats of Western Welsh buses. You had to be there on a cold and rainy day with all the little sliding windows closed, condensation streaming down the windows and the damp air acrid with stale Woodbine and No.6 smoke and fag ends littering the floor. And that was just the school bus.<br /><br />Kevin Fackrell, Cafe Abersychano 1967-72.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20689202.post-63864621906705423052013-04-26T20:33:15.627+01:002013-04-26T20:33:15.627+01:00I recognise these times and places - like you I li...I recognise these times and places - like you I lived in them but have been long exiled. I am not sure if I miss them. Probably not. But these are wonderfully evocative and elegiac lines for me. Thanks.<br /><br />Kevin F Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20689202.post-5116536962083907512013-04-19T19:13:58.147+01:002013-04-19T19:13:58.147+01:00Yes, relevance intensified in reading again, a goo...Yes, relevance intensified in reading again, a goodie. As for me in times past and devastated by the Tory regime I wrote a long vitriolic piece on the immense greed and deceit represented when Thatcher was re-elected for the third time in the 80s, sadly a poem I seem to have lost. Tom Leechnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20689202.post-88366626616398013242013-04-19T13:49:11.608+01:002013-04-19T13:49:11.608+01:00Made me cry you fool…..x
Arthur Richardson
Em...Made me cry you fool…..x<br /><br /> <br /><br />Arthur Richardson<br /><br />Employment Relations Officer<br /><br />Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists<br />Arthur Richardsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20689202.post-89450949756960347422013-04-19T13:48:33.711+01:002013-04-19T13:48:33.711+01:00Thank you, Gareth. Much appreciated. You’ll be ple...Thank you, Gareth. Much appreciated. You’ll be pleased to know that there was an anti-Thatcher rally in Hebden Bridge square on Wednesday.<br /><br />Mark WhitakerMark Whitakernoreply@blogger.com