Writers' groups are not for everyone
Writers' groups are not the place for everyone
Sitting in those shapes and clasping verse
A bit like self-help meetings (minus all the fun)
Instead of drugs and phobias it's far, far worse
There are lots of serious blokes who dream of softback
Who know exactly why their words are best
Ok, career is not exactly on track
But luckily there's nothing helps you toughen like a test
The women present criticise constructively
This is good and that is nearly so
Young and old have faces trained in empathy
But is spending time this way really the best way to go?
I tried, I tried, I open the door wide
And I go right back to the ungrouped world outside
• Rachel Fox was born and raised in Northern flomaxbuyonline.com/ England and now lives on the Angus coast in Scotland. She says: “I have been writing poetry regularly for about ten
years. I have worked in journalism, education, market research, shops
and nightclubs (5 long years as a DJ in the 1990s). At present I look
after family full-time – partly because I like it, partly because it
gives me more writing time and partly because I am very bad at keeping
regular jobs.
I publish my poems as postcards and read regularly at the folk
club in Montrose.” More information can be found on her excellent website at www.crowd-pleasers.net and we will be carrying some more of her work in the next few weeks.
