wrong email roddy
>From: "Roddy Lumsden" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Poetryetc Featured Poets - Series 3
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:54:35 -0000
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>I sort of wish Roddy Lumsden hadn't said so much at
> >the beginning as I think I would have enjoyed the poems even more had I
> >come to them cold.
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>Sorry Douglas - you may well be right (presuming, and hoping, you're not
>opposed to a poet talking plainly and clearly about context - there is
>sometimes more than a whiff of the seminar rising from other FP
>statements!). Since John is anthologising the statement and not the poems,
>I presumed something more than a couple of paras was required and looking
>back to previous statements, about 1000 words seemed the norm. I'm
>increasingly asked to discuss the way I write, the background to the poems
>and though I don't find it easy, it was by listening to such stuff from
>those peers who encouraged me which allowed me to write better poetry - not
>just by reading their work. I often find myself between the hard place of
>over-justification / egotism and the rock of the 'death of the author',
>'ban-all-context' po-mo puritanism which I can't abide.
>
>best
>
>Roddy
>
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