Ah, yeah, Barry; we have a bunch of his paintings, although none of the early ones with the highways in the sky so to speak. bpnichol’s advice: If you can’t afford the Matisses etc, then buy art you like from people you know.
I can’t think of other WCW ekphrastic poems at the moment, but of course there are the Pictures from Breughel, & that book meant a lot to me.
Doug
> On Aug 14, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Doug,
>
> Quite meaningful after a simple google search reveals that Robert Sinclair's "artists' writing" borders on poetry and that he has lived and taught in Edmonton for many years. I'll add links to his writing and painting which expanded his presence for me. Thanks for detailing the quality of your specific indebtedness to WCW. I'd like to read a gathering of his ekphrastic work.
>
> https://www.scottgallery.com/artists/robert-sinclair
>
> http://www.willockandsaxgallery.com/artists/sinclair1.php#../images/SrWS81a.jpg
>
> Barry
>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 10:40:14 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks everyone.
>>
>> I hadn’t really noticed (& then I did) how much my reading of WCW back in the late 60s, his late poems in his 3 line stanzas, has stayed with me.
>>
>> And, yes, Sinclair does wonderful watercolours…
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> On Jul 31, 2019, at 8:13 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Gentle, meandering, Doug.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 11:55 am, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> a light touch. A watercolour poem
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On 1 Aug 2019, at 12:59 am, Patrick McManus <
>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Doug thought this was staring off as sf! it would be fun to make it
>>>> into one
>>>>>
>>>>> found him on the web -and many other Sinclairs !cheers P
>>>>>
>>>>> ps is a question mark needed last verse??
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 31/07/2019 16:43, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>>>> you see no one
>>>>>> on those colourful roads
>>>>>> hung in space
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mountains range
>>>>>> beyond below
>>>>>> they curve & twist
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from nowhere to nowhere
>>>>>> lost (or found
>>>>>> among glittering peaks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> who walks there walks
>>>>>> other times other dimensions
>>>>>> they emerge enter unseen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for Robert Sinclair
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (which will mean little to you all, I suppose, but whose early
>>>> watercolours did this thing….)
>>
Douglas Barbour
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What you died of,
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