Hi Frank,
You write:
"A friend has suggested that when suficient of these tales have been written 
and assembled there might be a case for combining them with perhaps some 
inter-linking narrative to make a coherent (if somewhat idiosyncratically 
opinionated) whole. That may also open up the possibility of literary grant 
funds and subsequent publication. Seems a long way off, but you never know."
And I want to say a BIG YES to that suggestion!
Long narrative poems may not be fashionable but they are (still) being 
written. I can remember a UK poet - Simon Armitage - once saying such poems 
were like knitting: "You can do a bit more every now and then, put it down 
for a while, the pick it up and carry on..." He then went on to talk about 
how, as with a sweater when it's being made, there's all sortts of 
colours/different stitches/etc and how the whole thing is stitched together 
when it's finally finished. (He'd just finished a mega-long poem of his own 
and he was describing the process...)
I've been reading through your piece now and again - and I, too, see the 
potential for something that follows your friends recommendation.
Bob







>From: Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Sub - Sretna New Godina, Frenki
>Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:06:23 +1100
>
>Hi gary,
>
>Christina was right. The setting (as I've imagined it) was a backyard 
>barbecue type arrangement - given the time of season that is often enough 
>the case with Christmas and new year gatherings here. Crude custom has it 
>that after a period of time, given a reasonable number of people and a 
>certain quantity of booze, the back fence often becomes the substitute for 
>indoor facilities.
>
>I've started to develop a bit of a biography for this fellow, so I can keep 
>track of his background and circumstances, so as to, hopefully, not 
>criss-cross and confuse why he says or does things - working on the 
>assumption that there will be more of him emerging over time and that he 
>and I will get to know each other a little better.
>
>I might finish this particular story at some point - need to decide what he 
>is likely to have done - but I haven't resolved how to finally shape this 
>one yet, or even if I'm capable of doing such a thing. We'll see.
>
>A friend has suggested that when suficient of these tales have been written 
>and assembled there might be a case for combining them with perhaps some 
>inter-linking narrative to make a coherent (if somewhat idiosyncratically 
>opinionated) whole. That may also open up the possibility of literary grant 
>funds and subsequent publication. Seems a long way off, but you never know.
>
>cheers,
>
>Frank
>
>
>
>The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at: 
>http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm
>
>
>
>>
>>Frank, you have to finish this story.  But what is the dark place on 
>>fence?
>>
>>To me, the odd words are so odd that no italics works.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Gary
>>
>>
>>Dec Byron Sacre at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html... Writer's
>>Hood at http://www.writershood.com/... Poets for Peace.... ˇPoemas sí, 
>>balas
>>no!
>
>
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