Tramp-led Dreams

"I do this deliberately of course so my stuff is not easy to read or understand and that puts a rather large strain on the reader and that in turn doesn't create any favours for me as a poet!"

I didn't experience any strain in reading La-shout - I was entertained, titivated, and ultimately dishevelled. I had no difficulty in extracting meaning, though perhaps that's just down to the way my mind operates. I guess that's what I was alluding to - in some ways, your writing seemed to be explicit - with no requirement on my part to expend effort beyond adding 'physical' depth to your picture on the page.  That's ok, but I also enjoy having to 'work' to extract (a) meaning - a significance, the point - where some ideas are merely implied, obscured or left 'unsaid'. Maybe that's how poetry distinguishes itself from 'entertainment'? I have no reservations in applauding an enjoyable read La-shout