I'm glad there's nothing wrong with John, too, although he has been sufering with gout again for the last week or so. It seems to be dying down a little now.
I shall certainly try to find another group, or maybe even try to start one with some of the other like-minded women in the group. The Committee are planning to keep the group going without G, taking it in turn to be "teacher", but I'm afraid I'm so disillusioned with the way a couple of them having been speaking and writing about G that I don't care to have anything to do with them any more. There! You've never heard me say anything like that before, have you?
We'll see how it goes. I might just spend the money on going to poetry days with other poets which I haven't been able to afford while doing this group, or the one before it. In any case, now the better weather isn't far off, I shall be spending time at the Lit & Phil again.
I have loved being in groups which G has run because she's a proper poet, which you can't say about many of the people who run similar things. My friend Jeanne says she's the only real poet she's ever met and she's been at it a lot longer than me. G is an inspirational tutor; she has taught me so much and given me confidence in my own poetry, my own "voice". She hardly ever criticises people's work, or not until she has toughened them up so that they can take it, but even then it's usually in the form of encouragement and suggestion rather than outright hard-faced criticism.
Oh well! Everything comes to an end and I'm conscious that she's had a difficult couple of years on a personal level, which may have made her a little fragile and influenced her decision.
I'll survive; something else will come along. It always does!
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Date: 2009-03-04 09:42 pm (UTC)I'm glad there's nothing wrong with John, too, although he has been sufering with gout again for the last week or so. It seems to be dying down a little now.
I shall certainly try to find another group, or maybe even try to start one with some of the other like-minded women in the group. The Committee are planning to keep the group going without G, taking it in turn to be "teacher", but I'm afraid I'm so disillusioned with the way a couple of them having been speaking and writing about G that I don't care to have anything to do with them any more. There! You've never heard me say anything like that before, have you?
We'll see how it goes. I might just spend the money on going to poetry days with other poets which I haven't been able to afford while doing this group, or the one before it. In any case, now the better weather isn't far off, I shall be spending time at the Lit & Phil again.
I have loved being in groups which G has run because she's a proper poet, which you can't say about many of the people who run similar things. My friend Jeanne says she's the only real poet she's ever met and she's been at it a lot longer than me. G is an inspirational tutor; she has taught me so much and given me confidence in my own poetry, my own "voice". She hardly ever criticises people's work, or not until she has toughened them up so that they can take it, but even then it's usually in the form of encouragement and suggestion rather than outright hard-faced criticism.
Oh well! Everything comes to an end and I'm conscious that she's had a difficult couple of years on a personal level, which may have made her a little fragile and influenced her decision.
I'll survive; something else will come along. It always does!