Peter Riley wrote:
> Serves him right for contributing to The Rialto..
A harsh but accurate paraphrase led to this comment. I was thinking
something similar differently. Took some time off writing myself,
basically because of another avocation (also preoccupied with words &
exegesis - the usual impossibilities). Floundering for personal voice
(for want of a better term) & public ground after returning to poetry I
discovered something exciting at Nate Dorward's web-site & the back
issues of Angel Exhaust. One who had once subscribed to Grossteste
Review, had kept copies of Mottram's Poetry Review was back in that
continuing world. This coincided approximately, in poetic practice,
with doing some translations, eg, Lorca, Celan, which were liberating;
and with taking earlier formal poems (the type to send to The Rialto,
maybe) & reading through them to create new poems, the new sense scanned
by eye at speed. All the new works struck me as better poems. A glosa
spawned a ghazal, stuff like that (gathered as Fast Poems/ Slow Poems -
project scrapped). I did wonder if the practice of innovative poetry
might be a rescue for Mr Stubbs, & whether it has proved thus for any
others.
Best, Pete.
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