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Comments in red from LYRIQ (the MENSA poetry magazine) - thanks!

Title (Latest first) ©Year "I skiddled back to stranglish moans / Its carcass steamed in Jabbersweat" 
Think Round Corners 2002 'Think round corners, work that mental tackle - Massage those synapses - stretch and strain!'
Fantasia on Composers 2002 'While Gordon and Jacob both stifle a snore, He dreams the complete works of Nicholas Maw.'
Jabberwocky Revisited 2000 'A frabjous ode... brillig indeed' - T. Wren
'...intelligent new twist on what I thought was an untwistable subject' - N. Spooner-Harvey
The Queer Old Dean * 2000 'A fitting tribute indeed. Well it tickled my muckle chuscles' - J. Mann
The Greatest SF Story 2000 A Pantoum Tribute to "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke   reviews
Tribulations of the Gods 2000 ' “Hold on”, announced Saturn, “I think there’s a pattern / It helps if you start in the middle.” '
A Homage... 1999 '"There's more to you than meets the eye" / Enthusiastically said I'
&ante Melancholico 1999 'He must have had such fun writing this one' - J. Hayes
'...gave me mixed feelings of amusement as well as sympathy' - M. Reijman
The Dreamer Of Dreams 1999 'A superficial reading... is sufficient to whet the appetite and read it more thoroughly. It appears quite meticulous and serious' - A. Brett
A Cautionary Tale 1997 'Absorbing and very amusing all through. A dream work, indeed' - B. Bovington
'reminds me of the "Snark" & "Ancient Mariner" and I want to read it and read it" - V. Rainsford
Solaria (My best work???) 1996 'Good ballad effect, some lovely wordplay' - A. Claybourne
'Another minor epic. How does he do it?' - E. Dent