Andy,
Though that is very true of the late John Forbes,
who moved much as a child as his father was a civilian working
with our air-force all around Asia... I've hardly ever travelled
and hadn't left the country for 8 or 9 years when poetry
became a large thing in my life. Nor would my parental
preference be pronounced. I lived in the same house from
birth until 19, at about 19 I became someone who wrote
and published poems. Moving out from the parental home,
I've lived at various addresses within a couple of miles of
each other St.Kilda/Elwood ever since
Maybe both the static and the much moving extremes
are equally productive of poets, the static leading more
to a poetry of place.
cheers
Hugh
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From: Andrew Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Oldthread revisited 2 - centres
>
> Hi Roddy,
>
> May this have anything to do with the fact that individuals born
> and raised in any one place are less likely to turn their hand to
> personal creative tasks? I read somewhere that a child who --
>
> a) Is moved around at crucial (if not regular) intervals, i.e.
> rootless, and thus having to address their sense of identity
> internally rather than externally . . .
>
> and/ or
>
> b) Has an extreme preference for either one parent over the other
> *or* an extreme indifference to both
>
> is more likely to harbour and later develop a talent for writing,
> painting, etc. Emphasis on 'more likely', of course.
>
>
> I'm wondering whether a native to one city will be as unlikely to
> become a poet as will a native to a rural village . . .
>
> I'd be very curious to know how many writers on this list were
> born and raised in the same place, up until the age of 20, say.
>
> Isn't poetry more likely to spring from the mouths of mongrels?
>
>
> Andy
>
>
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