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by a 16-year old reader:

I like your poetry because of the way you look on things,
I love the way you string your words together,
When I received your book, 'The Transcendental Hotel' after about a day of reading your poems I just thought:
Right - what the hell does transcendental mean!!!!
I got the dictionary out and it said:
'transcendental - surpassing experience, supernatural, abstruse.'

I then went on to look up 'abstruse' to define the meaning of that:
'abstruse' - 'obscure, difficult to understand , profound'
The above words are just right to describe the book, a collection of poems which aren't your boring average poems!

I have many favourite bits in the book I like but this has to be one of the best:
'To them I say: Honour the toad for we live only as we smell'

What the hell does that mean? I thought.
Who cares! it's a great collection of words that I haven't heard or thought of before that interested and excited me.

Another thing that I like about your poems is the titles !
'Gay' men don't smoke pipes
oh... I thought, what do you mean by that?

I go on to read the poem and I can’t understand any of it but there are phrases in it like
'false poets suck up to words'
I dont know quite what you mean by that but it makes you think, it's not just a thought that goes away!

I found other bits like...
'I died before I was born and after I was forced though birth I died and died again.’
I don’t know what that means but I thought about it damn hard trying to understand it:
I think that the reason why I like your poems is because they make me think, and I'm interested to know the answer!

Sussex
England