It absolutely true that we have stuff at our fingertips which is not limited
by the technology.
We get to use all the senses, as well as memory and subconcious imagery.
We're can be more creative with narrative as well I suspect - the great
limitation of film as a medium it seems to me is that it is essentially
linear and the sequence and timing controlled by the film maker, whereas a
good poet can allow the reader to move round in the poem in their own way.
Ah well.
H


----- Original Message -----
From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Sedgefield


> Yes, cameras can comment on the present. It would be much harder for them
to
> put in the past concisely. A film showing the plain, the road (but the old
> road?) the horses, the farms and the Shrove Tuesday Football (great photo
> stuff but very rough indeed, or it used to be - you might get your camera
> thrown in the mud.) Then a quick pan up to the high tech world...
> I think I'll stick to words...the radio play syndrome. Clip-clop,
bang-bang,
> tappety tap.
>
> bw
> SallyE
>
> on 22/11/03 8:58 am, Helen Clare at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > Was reminded of this poem last night watching the news.
> > Half a dozen protestors, the president in a bullet proof vest, a placard
> > saying "Bush is not very nice" and marksmen on the roof of a tiny
primary
> > school.
> > Sometimes I think I envy cameraman who seem to be able to say so much in
so
> > few visual images....
> > Hmmm.
> > Helen
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:07 AM
> > Subject: New: Sedgefield
> >
> >
> >> Sedgefield
> >>
> >> "It's not every day the world's most powerful man comes to your
village"
> >> - shop assistant, Sedgefield.
> >>
> >> On the flat Durham plain,
> >> a halt on the long road to Scotland,
> >> littered by coalmines, deceased,
> >> and the ancient small farms
> >> handed down from son to only son -
> >> a village with a racecourse
> >> a lunatic assylum
> >> and Easter greenness growing
> >> violets, primrose, oak and brambles.
> >> First, Shrove Tuesday's football scramble,
> >> rough as the farm lads, tough
> >> as winners - as those who held on
> >> to poorer properties, till the age
> >> of zip and jet, email,
> >> motorway, horrible bomb.
> >> Ask this question of Sedgefield -
> >> Who is the most powerful man?
> >>
> >> Sally Evans