Thank you so much, Doug. That means a lot to me.
There are some more to come. I think I have 5 or 6 on their easels or
workbenches or whatever metaphor you want - a wp file and card folder of
print outs in my college office.
I keep revisiting them and seeing infelicities. It was nearly lunch time
before I surfaced today and that was all this stuff apart from the brief
conversational sojourn with the national health service.
I am so lucky that I can spend that time; but it does mean that I shall
have to make it up another day. Probably work a weekend.
I am not generally revisiting them once they're posted; though, if there's
time, I may give them a read at the writers forum workshop on Saturday
(we're publishing a chilean's book, of which more on Monday, and with any
luck the room will be full of Chileans - I take this as self-evidently
good! and I know that's silly... but anyone who comes out to hear visual /
sound poetry has probably something to commend them even if it's not
necessarily moral fibre)
I have a few to go. Poems, not Chileans. i just wrote another, first
draft, on the epsom train home, epsom as in salts and horse racing and
make sure you don't forget to get off
I do need a break. It's tiring apart from anything else. But it's not nice
when I stop! I know from past experience.
I think it's going ok. i don't really want to say more than that yet. I'm
a bit scared to stop. I'm sure you know the feeling. What if I can't
start...
I came down the road from where I work ina haze, having no idea what I
would write on the train once and if I got a seat; and I stood in the
supermarket queue empty... and something caught my eye there and it was
off again, the verse. I'm feeling a bit productive!
but I do need to sit down (metaphorically) and I do have some other things
to do
I did have 2 papers to write. I've been let off one till the autumn but
the other - it's like the waiting poems, it's almost there; but what a
distance between something that is interesting and almost the right length
and something which *is to time and is really worth the effort
so I may fall silent for a while
soon
but I do thank you for your kind words. I know those are for the poem; and
that's how it should be; but unsurprisingly it pleases me, even if they're
not entirely comfortable poems to read
All best
L
On Wed, March 24, 2010 20:11, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> With Alison, I can only say, this is a continually growing more
> powerful sequence, Lawrence. So if there are more to come to you, let
> them....
>
> I think throughout, & here it works especially well, the undercurrent
> of understatement works precisely well....
>
> Doug
> On 24-Mar-10, at 11:56 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> My poor tired eyes, a woman sings.
>> How else may I survive but by decease?
>> It’s in the rules and they shall not be changed.
>> Each may not be. We cannot be. I’ll die.
>>
>>
>> I’ve seen too much. I shall not belong.
>> Our impoverishments accumulate.
>> They’ve an extravagance of ambition.
>> That is my course. I’ll die. Who’ll know the cause?
>>
>>
>> I hum myself in dreams but do not sleep,
>> not properly at all. The dead wake me and we work. I’ve come too far. My
>> feet are high above the sea over several moons. I look into your face and
>> know it’s true: I cannot see you clearly for the sun.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "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
>>
>>
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"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
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