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		<title>This Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve made it to my poetry blog twice in a month! I&#8217;ve started writing a novel, and meanwhile, I want to start getting through my backlog of poems, and publishing them here on the blog. I&#8217;ve no idea why I would keep them filed away now, the rainy day of a future publishing contract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;s been a while Yet again I find myself returning to my poetry blog and another year has passed without updating it. It is not that my life stagnates, it is that so much happens! The last year has been a time of constant re-awakenings, and re-negotiations with life itself. I have completed one year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funeral Poems for My Parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a tough couple of years for me, losing my Dad suddenly then seeing cancer take my mum away. As the literary one of the family it fell to me to read at their funerals, and I couldn&#8217;t just pull something from a book, so I wrote my own poems. They were in some ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The months, to paraphrase Sylvia Plath, have glided by like ticker tape, and this poetry blog is not the only project of mine to have been neglected what with one thing and another. I have been writing on and off, and have given the odd public reading, but nothing much &#8211; a lot of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Evening at Cafe Muse, Manchester, June 12th 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, no post for a couple of months, the 2 in one day! Something must be happening! Well, in fact a friend of mine called Aryamati (she is an ordained Buddhist!), is on a committee at the Museum, and had been asked to organise an arts event, so came up with the idea of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/poetry-evening-at-cafe-muse-manchester-june-12th-2008/</link>
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		<title>Beginnings and Endings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t posted for a while &#8211; have been busy with this thing called &#8220;life&#8221; &#8211; it is incredible how the months rush by. Anyway, I am not going to say much today. Am due to give a reading at Cafe Muse at the Manchester Museum this evening, was sorting through some poems for it, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was struggling for something to post today, as recent times have not been times of any substantial creative output. So I had a dig through some older poems, and thought most of them might need some reworking before posting here! In any case, I found this one from the mid 1990&#8242;s. It&#8217;s a love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downpour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been noticing that now this poetry blog of mine has been around for a while, it appears to be established a little in the search engines, and is getting a fair number of daily visitors. This is all I ever wanted &#8211; I struggled for about ten years sending off poems, only to (apart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/downpour/</link>
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		<title>Timeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As timelines go, the last few months have been pretty shocking for me. In August my father died suddenly and unexpectedly, and a month later my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and has since been stuck in hospital, as well as having poor mobility to start with. No wonder then that I have neglected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple in Betws-y-Coed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of the Poetry of Rob Radcliffe will be aware of my fondness for Wales &#8211; and recently I have been exploring again, this time managing to scale Snowdon (well, at least on the train as far as Clogwyn!), find Dolbadarn Castle in Llanberis, and also spend two days in Betws-y-Coed in North Wales. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/couple-in-betws-y-coed/</link>
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		<title>The Strangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have some poems up my sleeve, for now here is one about finding one lonely person amid a crowd of strangers &#8211; and how simply listening to them, acknowledging them, made them open up with their pain, their issues &#8211; and how a sense of connectedness arose despite wildy differing circumstances from my own. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/the-strangers/</link>
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		<title>Cosmic Love Poem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve been busy lately bustling about, doing lots of new things, and the writing seems to have taken a backseat. Either that or the words won&#8217;t come in the right place at the right time, and even then rarely in the right order. Still, I&#8217;m experiencing lots of stuff so I suppose those words [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/cosmic-love-poem/</link>
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		<title>Metaphor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have been, and continue to be busy lately and it&#8217;s been a fallow time for my writing, but I have written some, and spring is often a productive time for me. I will post this brief poem for now, it is quite self-explanatory and rather simple, kind of an epilogue of Zen Love Poem&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/metaphor/</link>
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		<title>West Beach Sunset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short poem to kick off my 2007 poetry postings &#8211; a little late, as January is almost over! How the time does fly! Anyway, this short poem was inspired on my last trip to Llandudno (and I am hoping for brighter nights and slightly better weather so I can start my journeyings again soon). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/west-beach-sunset/</link>
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		<title>Zen Love Poem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder whether some of my poems are too personal, too full of recent turmoil to post &#8211; maybe I should keep them for another day, another month, another year? I have not made a post for a while, things have been happening. It&#8217;s funny you can meet someone and you just have this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/zen-love-poem/</link>
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		<title>Ghosts of The Tomb Builders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the very few poems I&#8217;ve &#8220;written for a purpose&#8221;, so I hope it suggests there is some merit in this practice. Usually I have to wait until some urge is tugging at my attention, until a poem is aching to be written. Sometimes life affords few such moments, so it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/ghosts-of-the-tomb-builders/</link>
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		<title>Darkfall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the clocks go back, the nights draw in, fireworks fill the air, Christmas decorations threaten, and the air gets colder, I thought it was appropriate to bring this poem to a wider audience. It has gone down well at readings in the past, I only hope it goes down well at my new Writers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Orme, August 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m becoming very fond of Llandudno and all it, and the surrounding North Wales coast, has to offer. I recently returned there and spent several splendid October days, but this poem was conceived on my first trip there in August, although my mind didn&#8217;t give birth to it until late September. It&#8217;s about walking on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poemsblog.com/great-orme-august-2006/</link>
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		<title>Only the Tide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few days in Llandudno recently, a trip I&#8217;d booked as soon as I returned from my last visit to Wales to stay with Louise and Phil in their beautiful country cottage. I&#8217;m finding lately that going away is preferable to coming home, a big change for sure &#8211; I&#8217;m feeling a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Friend on a Web Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The longer the internet goes on, the more it comes to resemble a kind of living, constant time capsule, the artefacts not deliberately buried but more lost in the constant avalanche of new pages. We might expect one day to find our own image, long removed, cached in some archive we&#8217;ve never even heard of, [...]]]></description>
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