Stunning in't it, Max. Mesmeric. I listened to the conflating of the
refugee situation and Homeric tales and then the first poem about the
river. I'm exhausted. She's so lucid and that stuff just pours 'through'
her and out. I'm reminded of Toni Morrison who says she feels that way or
at least did with 'Beloved'. Dylan too claimed it wsn't him, no conscious
act of creation on his part, he merely a vessel for words pouring out
through him.
Bill
On Monday, 12 September 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
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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