tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post2814719604188656022..comments2023-10-27T07:29:26.285+00:00Comments on Polyolbion: 2008 in briefMatt Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12371656447328595720noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-20878722616867984742009-01-07T16:44:00.000+00:002009-01-07T16:44:00.000+00:00Hi James and Jane - my big test of any poetry book...Hi James and Jane - my big test of any poetry book is nearly always how much I want to re-read it, and I've gone back to both your chapbooks again and again.<BR/><BR/>I did a reading of bird poems for our readers' holiday over Christmas, Jane, and started it off with an extract from The Seafarer, and an Anglo-Saxon bird riddle. Both proved very popular, which probably shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. But anyway, it seems that Anglo-Saxon poetry can still, as you say, really strike a chord, which has to be good.<BR/><BR/>Happy New Year to you all!Matt Merritthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371656447328595720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-37647005275374781222009-01-07T09:44:00.000+00:002009-01-07T09:44:00.000+00:00Thanks for naming Lament of the Wanderer as one of...Thanks for naming Lament of the Wanderer as one of your favs, Matt. My version seems to have struck a chord with quite a number of people ... which is great, esp. as the poem took me AGES to translate, at a painfully slow pace of four lines a day on average. But it all worked out in the end, it seems. <BR/><BR/>JxJane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-86975781600765211992009-01-06T16:41:00.000+00:002009-01-06T16:41:00.000+00:00Thanks for the list: I shall return to this!Thanks for the list: I shall return to this!Caroline Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203454486693014969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-10083350131665326662009-01-06T16:24:00.000+00:002009-01-06T16:24:00.000+00:00Thank you thank you thank you Matt - not sure I de...Thank you thank you thank you Matt - not sure I deserve it, but thank you anyway. My very best wishes for 2009 - JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com