nice reply, Caleb.
judy
> From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/01/10 Tue PM 04:42:25 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Money and poetry
>
> Hi Caleb - welcome to the list!
>
> Like Billy Connolly says, "I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is
> better". I'd like to try the comparison, purely out of curiosity, you
> understand...
>
> Best
>
> A
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> On 10/1/06 10:05 AM, "Caleb Cluff" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I hope this is the right manner by which to reply to the list. A neophyte, you
> > see, to all this.
> >
> > Alison, I understand wholeheartedly. My partner is a printmaker, and I have to
> > work as a journalist to keep all of our world in a piece. Which means writing
> > at three or four in the morning, and writing in the mind on the 70km trip to
> > work, and on the way home, and in the paddock while cutting feed. (We are on a
> > small property).
> >
> > But we write. Sometimes the conflict of work, of working, provides the spur
> > for me. Or is providing the spur. There is a sadness and an anger, and thus an
> > energy, that I draw from having to work, that can be (sometimes) channelled
> > usefully. And, sometimes, consumes me in useless ways. But we are the
> > creatures that we are. So that means if, at the time I come to writing, it is
> > one or two or three lines (as it often is), there is nothing I can do for it
> > but wait for the next chance. I have been poor, awfully poor, once. I don't
> > fancy going back there. It informs my life to this day. And like yourself,
> > because I chose to marry an artist, I suppose I have to be prepared to do what
> > I do to keep us working as artists.
> >
> > It doesn't make it any easier, of course. But sometimes it doesn't make it
> > harder.
>
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>
> Alison Croggon
>
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