Thank you
I just happened to be online (I'm on dialup at home, which I know is like
- I don't know...er... something seen as primitive... anyway I am and this
came through
and I keep saying it but i do appreciate all these encouragements
particularly like this where you concentrate on the work
when i find myself potentially compromised by being someone thought to be
able to tell others how it's done I tend to chant _be ambitious for the
poem not yourself_
and i am trying to take my own advice
I mean that I do know that I have written something that's a bit ok
and I am trying to remember that I am more than capable of writing junk
and... oh etc etc
not to be cocky
but the encouragement is much appreciated... that's ok - thank you
I have another you know, well yuo don't but I do; on the way home; and I
think I'll hold it for all sorts of reasons; not leastthat all the others
needed tinkering so...
I too have them all in one place and I am resisting the temptation to get
too clear a view of how this one fits -- I shouldnt really be reading it
all through because i don't want it to seem to have an end until it has an
end
anyway, I'm on line and it's my bill
that can't be right
permissible love
L
On Fri, March 26, 2010 22:17, Alison Croggon wrote:
> I totally agree with Robin. I think it's remarkable.
>
>
> Fwiw, I've pasted the sequence so far into one document and read it
> through, which really shows how powerfully unsettling they are. It's in
> that slightly alienated focus on small details, with everything going on
> in the peripheral vision. They have all the urgency of necessity. I know
> this stuff comes at a price, but wow.
>
> xA
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Sir
>>
>>
>> I'm rushing - not quite rushing - working very hard to get to the end
>> of the pieces I can imagine being publishable; so that I can turn to
>> some other things for a while, go silent etc... and then look again and
>> see if it is possible to pick it up... It's taken me over which is ok
>> but it's getting a little destructive personally just now
>>
>> I nearly chirped up yesterday re JStor & then kept shtumm, not even
>> time to do important things for me
>>
>> I'm glad you like it
>>
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>> On Fri, March 26, 2010 12:58, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> This is developing into a really terrific sequence, Lawrence!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Robin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:55 PM
>>> Subject: I have a fire [Next door 17]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "I could wish, when we were recovered, our conduct had been more
>>> distinguished for charity and kindness in remembrance of the past
>>> calamity" Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We take on the roles that we have been given.
>>> We must be helpful. These are dangerous times.
>>> If the law were not upheld, we'd be lost;
>>> there would be no community. It's cold.
>>>
>>> I have a fire. Not many have. Light it
>>> for me; and share the warmth. I find it hard to strike a match to make
>>> a flame, even to set the tinder in a dusty grate.
>>>
>>> My partner used to say that what matters
>>> is how a person lives, what kind they are, he'd say. He quoted Hamlet
>>> and made jokes.
>>>
>>> That isn't my way, after all. What counts
>>> is money at the bank. Those who keep tally observe such things. The
>>> rulers have their checks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
>>> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
>>> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of
>>> what it is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris
>>> Goode]
>>>
>>>
>>> 'a song and a film' by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
>>> Forum
>>> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111
>>> pages free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>>>
>>> 'snap shots and video' by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
>>> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lawrence Upton
>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>>> Dept of Music
>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
>> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
>> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what
>> it is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>>
>> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
>> Forum
>> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>>
>>
>> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
>> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>>
>> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
>> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>>
>>
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
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> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>
>
--
"The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
"water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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