Lawrence Upton wrote:
>Well, I like to make variations in my style, you know
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Oh, quite - in fact you did a Snap not so very long ago which I
commented on - like a "spot of time", in-tense.
>Ten years ago, I published a poem in a festschrift for Eric Mottram called LETTER TO ERIC - the poem used to be at Poets Corner, but last time I looked it was a little pixilated - and one came to me saying something like he hadnt known I could write like that (stylistically)... why didnt I do more
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>I said I had several lorryyloads and would love him to publish me; but I had to go sadly away!
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>There had been an assumption that because I was writing sound poetry etc etc etc, that's all I did. Not that you're saying *that; but it seems relevant
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Pity I don't know the sound poetry - living here, I don't hear much of
that sort of thing unless it's downloadable.
>The LETTER TO ERIC came out of a longer exercise called MESSAGES TO SILENCE... in which in part I took on my relationship to WW and sent it up
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It isn't pixilated on my screen. It's a very evocative text, but what's
online at FIERALINGUE doesn't recall WW for me.
>When I was 20, ill-absorbed WW was in me like an infection.
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>Yes, "I knew / a tree" was consciously wwian though the claim is real enough - tooting graveney common, south london; and i took some time phrasing that bit. The line I was taking really had to bring him in. I think it was furthest mainland west he has ever been, though he has bent my ear on Scilly, but there he was, as soon as I started writing that poem - I wrote one which is still in the notebook, felt it suffered from camera shake and started again afresh (I may have 2 poems) - and he popped up, joining in the making in between cussing the quantity of traffic and the ugliness of what we both believe to be an old arsenic works. And then he vanished to get his breakfast
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>I could never, once, have taken happily that (for me) risk of listening; but I have learned to face my wordsworth dependence. I can handle it
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Exactly - it's very obvious, not at all unconscious, and very integrated
in your own style.
>Thanks for your kind comments. I shall look up the other poem
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>If Randolph is listening in, I think I'd like to call the poem CAMERAS to bring in the image of discrete rooms etc I'll pick it up otherwise when he invites us to check
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