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Welcome to poetry at laterlife!
My name is
Ronnie Goodyer and through these pages I aim to create an
interactive part of the laterlife site where the joy and challenge of poetry can be
shared.
Far from the days when it was considered ‘homework’, poetry
has become one of the most popular pastimes for those with maybe a
little more time on their hands, and certainly with more life
experience!
 Poetry is often written within the family, celebrating
an event or reminiscing times, perhaps gentler in some ways, which
are important to the author and those close. What happens, though,
if you wish to present your work to a wider audience? After all, a
lot of us have been through the same times, the good and the
not-so-good; it is almost certain that what is of interest to one
will be both interesting and stimulating to others. Like those
conversations we have where one person remembers an event – or a
product long gone – and before you know it, memories are being
jolted and everyone fills in the picture.
There is opportunity for all with the one defining
prerequisite – quality. The real difficulty is quantity! That’s
where we come in – a specialist poetry outlet for laterlife. There
will be competitions, opportunities for publication, instruction
pages for the various verse forms, pitfalls to avoid (not all
‘brooks’ are ‘babbling’!) and some selected poems published here on
our very own website.
You will have an input to themes and ideas –
something to get really involved in. So, who am I? If you click on
the link here
there is a short
biography written about me for a recent publication. It says most
things you may wish to know at this stage:
Your Couplets
Thank you your
wonderful replies to the request for Couplets at Laterlife. I
obviously couldn’t publish all, but have chosen a selection
which I hope you will all enjoy. My appreciation to all of you
who sent submissions.
This Month's Topic: Tetractys
Here’s something
that may be new to you, a relatively new form – The TETRACTYS.
Laterlife Poets News
Eileen Carney Hulme, who first posted the sonnet Lizard Dreams on
our site, has subsequently had the poem published and it won 1st
Prize in a Readers’ Choice Vote! Congratulations to Eileen and an
early success for Laterlife Poets! Also, regular contributor Josie
Falla has had two of her poems published on Reach poetry monthly.
Here’s to your continued success, Josie. Please email me with any
poetry news you may have. It will be a pleasure to feature.
Development
Here at poetry at laterlife we will be continuing our series
of verse forms. There is no hard and fast order with this agenda so
if there is anything you are particularly interested in, just drop
me a line. Also forthcoming will be themed competitions with various
awards and, subject to demand, our own anthologies.
Contact
Please send submissions, comments, queries to me at:
POETRY
AT LATERLIFE
ensuring that you use pal as part of the email heading.
  If you would like to receive details of Reach poetry magazine, The
Dawntreader literary magazine or current Indigo Dreams Press poetry
competitions
please email with specific interest to:
INDIGO DREAMS PRESS
Take a look at the wonderful review of The Dawntreader by clicking
here:
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/revs/mg100.htm
Good luck with your creativity and I look forward to welcoming you
as a laterlife poet.
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