Alas, sigh, and moan. Is one's <g> preference for a poet's work on the same
edge as falling in love? What---do poem-pheromones hang off the margins?
Is it all so mysterious?
How can I love so much of Da Birk's and Sweet P's poetry.....yet they think
Liz Bassett's poems are either lightweight, off-form, or too hard to
understand?
Help me out!
joodlingly joodled
2008/9/12 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Exactly Patrick. It's as if she's writing to please someone. Poetry
> needs the cantankerous, the grump, otherwise you get candy-floss.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
> 2008/9/12 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> > I sunk under all the light in Liz Bassett's 'John Virtue's London
> > Paintings'-too much for this old grump!perhaps there is a logic beyond me
> > P d'Light
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> > Sent: 12 September 2008 08:19
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Liz Bassett's 'Field Maple Triolet'
> >
> > she likes 'light' doesn't she, Joodles? Hasn't anybody told her about
> > the problem of full rhyme in English, even John Donne (the brainiest
> > of us half-witted songbirds) couldn't evade its predictability.
> >
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > 2008/9/12 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
> >> Following's the third of Liz Bassett's poems shortlisted in the
> > _Guardian's_
> >> Poetry Workshop series in 2005. This was Carol Rumen's workshop on
> >> triolets. Rumen's comment follows the poem:
> >>
> >> *Field Maple Triolet by Liz Bassett*
> >>
> >> Thinking of you, I see a tree,
> >>
> >> and open sky and birds and sun
> >>
> >> inside my head.
> >>
> >> My heart blows free
> >>
> >> thinking of you.
> >>
> >> I see a tree
> >>
> >> and you are there, a rolling sea
> >>
> >> of light-filled leaves; of love begun.
> >>
> >> Thinking of you, I see a tree,
> >>
> >> and open sky, and birds, and sun.
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> A gently exploded triolet, this one is full of space and lightness. The
> >> 'stepped' lines work beautifully: they break the hold of the refrain and
> >> make us stop, a little out of breath, and share the speaker's sense of
> >> excitement and strangeness. This is a triolet that refreshes the form
> and
> >> opens up its refrain-rich density. The title adds a specific, valuable
> >> detail. Lovely!
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
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> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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