Dear Alison
And good to hear from you.
If it turns out that there is video of me being Gertie then I'll let you
know.
I like your image of writing bludgeoning you. Reminds me of that stage in
young male-bonding where violence is acted out, heavy slaps on back etc -
it tends to persist verbally after the physical stage, like all
affection?!... I realise there is that element with my writing's
relationship with me; it's pushy. I must talk to it.
I read your blog now and then. (I don't read anything regularly
unfortunately, though I mean to organise myself.)
And congratulations on the rain. Reading everything, as it hits me mostly,
like a fly in a vehicle jetstream, I've been reading about the Australian
version of global collapse. It doesn't sound good.
St Ives used to be full of bees and butterflies in a wide area of
interweaving gardens above the Fore St; but there's little now, well, a
lot less. Even on Scilly, where I was a few weeks ago, it's noticeably
lacking. Fewer swallows last year - less airborne food, I think. It's all
dying.
Well, rain's a start
love
L
On Tue, April 28, 2009 01:56, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Lovely to see you here, Lawrence! And very glad to hear some news from
> Goldsmiths... I wish I'd seen your performance of Stein. I'm mostly
> lurking here these days, so often catch up on things late (even the odd
> compliment - gosh! on poetryetc? - thank you). Still enjoying theatre
> enormously and spending a good deal of my time writing about it. Writing
> of other kinds turns up and bludgeons me when it feels like it. Life is
> demanding but very good. And it's been raining in Melbourne, which is a
> marvellous thing. xA
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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