Memorial must have been amazing to hear read live, Lawrence, even though I
note that she she says, in that White interview, that being read is not all:
I feel a poem needs not to assume it will be read. It has to have the
energy to create its own necessity. Poems shouldn’t operate within an
expectation of poems being passed around.
Falling awake is a great title. I will search it out.
Bill
On Monday, 12 September 2016, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> My pleasure
> She's well worth reading
> Marina Warner has a well working brain too!
>
> L
>
> On 11 September 2016 at 18:58, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for naming Alice Oswald, Lawrence.
> >
> > I have begun with this:
> >
> > http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=+alice+oswald&&view=detail&mid=
> > F8B3C2DC843C59EE0B44F8B3C2DC843C59EE0B44&FORM=VRDGAR
> >
> > and once Marina Warner has introduced her, Oswald talking gives me heart
> > to carry through with her and now look for her books.
> >
> > Max
> >
> > On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:50, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > I hadn't quite finished. The first I knew of it was when I read "your
> > > message has been sent"
> > >
> > > I was going to offer Alice Oswald's poetry as being - in this country -
> > > both talked about loudly and worth reading
> > >
> > > Probably more... but I forget. I am more interested now in telling off
> my
> > > computer
> > >
> > > L
> > >
> > > On 11 September 2016 at 11:47, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes, but what is the substance of such predictions?
> > >> I wouldn't trust Clive James.
> > >> I see no sign of verse dying; and bad verse is on the increase.
> > >> 20 or 30 years ago there was a chap would turn up to a reading series
> I
> > >> attended occasionally, and he would read the paper throughout. Nor was
> > he
> > >> accompanying a friend or spouse as such; he arrived in various
> groupings
> > >> and alone. It was a place to be seen (and perhaps as a result but I
> > have no
> > >> evidence it was only worth going regularly.
> > >> Some sell books because they are on the A-level list; others because
> > they
> > >> are talked about
> > >>
> > >> On 11 September 2016 at 10:29, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Well, we kind of do this on poetryetc, Max
> > >>>
> > >>> Bill
> > >>>
> > >>> On Sunday, 11 September 2016, Max Richards <
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > >
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> If predictions are correct about verse being a dying art, those of
> us
> > >>> who
> > >>>> persist in writing it would probably be wise to forget altogether
> > about
> > >>>> getting published, and just send our latest poem to each other as an
> > >>> email.
> > >>>> Each of us would have a list of names, not all of them fools. It
> would
> > >>> be a
> > >>>> low-profile solution, however, and not many poets would get as
> famous
> > as
> > >>>> Seamus Heaney, who, in Bellaghy, is about to have a whole memorial
> > >>> building
> > >>>> opened in his honour, with a coffee bar.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> ://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/10/clive-james-
> > >>>> new-book-box-sets
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>
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