Lawrence - a good plan: to continue with the first drafts, but rest the
editing. They will make a shape together, with its own synergy - then you
can work with that perspective in mind. Good luck. Now, sharpen a dozen
pencils ...
Andrew
On 26 March 2010 23:49, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I remarked in an interview recently that the late Bob Cobbing managed to
> be publisher of around 100 books in his first ten years publishing; and of
> maybe 1100 more over the next thirty, speeding up steadily
>
> that's out of my league and inclination; but I am aware of having speeded
> up a bit in verse writing, particularly over the last few hours - though
> much of what I have posted today has been around a day or twoin earier
> forms
>
> I am grateful for your attention. Some of you have said some very
> encouraging things
>
> there was much to be said for spacing them out more, if only to give those
> of you who wanted to read them some time... but I wanted to clear that
> mental desk... I am going to take a break from.... I hope not writing, but
> the polishing / finalising... and maybe from this set of uncomfortable
> ideas and metaphors
>
> I may read them tomorrow at the wf workshop if there is time
>
> I'll respond if anyone writes though I am not demanding that. hw could i?
> In fact... well, I'll respond but I shall tend to be silent now and for a
> while.
>
> I don't know where I am with this sequence (book?) It's become _next
> door_, which does avoid the double take when people put their head round
> my door and see the folder marked _auschwitz_; and I didn't want that
> emphasis really, not over all of them
>
> thank you for the encouragement
>
> I'm glad you're there. Thank you for the use of your inboxes. I hope to
> return
>
> L
>
>
> --
> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
> is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>
> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>
> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>
> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
--
Andrew
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http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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