It's all right. I knew what you meant, but I couldn't resist it; plus a
certain realisation that I might deploy that against some poets I could
name
But I probably won't
L
On Thu, July 14, 2011 11:43, Angela Keaton wrote:
> Sorry, typo! Meant 'prose' not that you were a poseur. I thought that
> your explanation of the process of writing 'Moonlight' read like a prose
> poem. Regards
> A.
>
>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Lawrence Upton
> Sender: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> To: [log in to unmask]
> ReplyTo: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> Subject: Re: Moonlight
> Sent: 14 Jul 2011 11:26
>
>
> Pose poems?
>
>
> L
>
>
> On Thu, July 14, 2011 10:54, Angela Keaton wrote:
>
>> And sometimes, it seems, you write pose poems about your 'snapshot'
>> poems. Thanks. Angela.
>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sender: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:40:56
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Moonlight
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much, Jill. I aim to please (myself)!
>>
>>
>>
>> And thanks again to everyone who wrote yesterday - Sheila, Millicent
>> and Doug, I believe. Apologies if I have missed anyone - hunny pots and
>> little brain etc.
>>
>> All I said back was "thanks" but that's all that came to me. Then.
>> Seemingly, I'm not much better now. Let's try.
>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't seen the moon properly for ages. In the winter I was in a
>> small cottage for some weeks which has an electrically-operated skylight
>> -
>> against stuff like moonlight as well as manmade light; and I opened it
>> one night --
>>
>> what do you do in the middle of the night when you wake up? you press a
>> switch.... I control therefore I exist --
>>
>> and there was a moon, the whole circle of it, unlike the partial
>> version I
>> saw a few nights ago
>>
>> but since I have been in city pent for too many months and I don't see
>> it
>>
>>
>> Look up, is that the moon I see?
>> Can't be, looks like the sun to me
>>
>>
>>
>> and then, a few nights ago, as I say, I heard a sound convincingly like
>> a burglar (we're allowed to kill them now -- it's intended to keep Merde
>> Duck off the phone hacking); and there was a fox shining in a bright
>> partial moon and surrounded by green but darkened growth
>>
>> the fox rushed out of the poem to be, leaving me staring, stunned as a
>> frightened rabbit, and the next day I turned the unfoxed sight into the
>> verse you've seen
>>
>> I do appreciate the response. I used, like some here still, snapshot
>> fairly regularly. Then I published a selective book of them and
>> concluded that was enough and I would do other things.
>>
>> But now and then I write something that is snapshotish (a kind of
>> dance)and show it here.
>>
>> The response is encouraging; or was this time. Ta all. What would I do
>> without you?
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, July 14, 2011 02:08, Jill Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The use of consonants, esp b (and f) is fascinating. The b a bit of a
>>> low rumble.
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> __________________________
>>> Jill Jones
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> website: www.jilljones.com.au
>>> blog: rubystreet.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/07/2011, at 8:29 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> unable to speak you’re doing this rich voice light like brambles
>>>>
>>>> branching
>>>>
>>>> silvers each surrounding branch
>>>>
>>>> breaks up to deep shadow
>>>>
>>>> breathless atmosphere shall take some telling
>>>>
>>>> foolish looking *and revealing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> flame behind skin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lawrence Upton
>>>> July 2011
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> solo poems
>>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripateti
>>>> ca _U
>>>> pton_Try%20Valley.pdf
>>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatet
>>>> ic a_ Upton_Walking.pdf -----
>>>> collaborative visual work:-
>>>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
>>>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
>>>> ----
>>>> Lawrence Upton
>>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>>>> Dept of Music
>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> solo poems
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_U
>> pt on_Try%20Valley.pdf
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_
>> Up
>> ton_Walking.pdf ----- collaborative visual work:-
>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
>> ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -----
> solo poems
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upt
> on_Try%20Valley.pdf
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Up
> ton_Walking.pdf -----
> collaborative visual work:-
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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solo poems
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Try%20Valley.pdf
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Walking.pdf
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collaborative visual work:-
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
----
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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