And sometimes, it seems, you write pose poems about your 'snapshot' poems.
Thanks.
Angela.
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From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:40:56
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Subject: Re: Moonlight
Thank you very much, Jill. I aim to please (myself)!
And thanks again to everyone who wrote yesterday - Sheila, Millicent and
Doug, I believe. Apologies if I have missed anyone - hunny pots and little
brain etc.
All I said back was "thanks" but that's all that came to me. Then.
Seemingly, I'm not much better now. Let's try.
I haven't seen the moon properly for ages. In the winter I was in a small
cottage for some weeks which has an electrically-operated skylight -
against stuff like moonlight as well as manmade light; and I opened it one
night --
what do you do in the middle of the night when you wake up? you press a
switch.... I control therefore I exist --
and there was a moon, the whole circle of it, unlike the partial version I
saw a few nights ago
but since I have been in city pent for too many months and I don't see it
Look up, is that the moon I see?
Can't be, looks like the sun to me
and then, a few nights ago, as I say, I heard a sound convincingly like a
burglar (we're allowed to kill them now -- it's intended to keep Merde
Duck off the phone hacking); and there was a fox shining in a bright
partial moon and surrounded by green but darkened growth
the fox rushed out of the poem to be, leaving me staring, stunned as a
frightened rabbit, and the next day I turned the unfoxed sight into the
verse you've seen
I do appreciate the response. I used, like some here still, snapshot
fairly regularly. Then I published a selective book of them and concluded
that was enough and I would do other things.
But now and then I write something that is snapshotish (a kind of
dance)and show it here.
The response is encouraging; or was this time. Ta all. What would I do
without you?
L
On Thu, July 14, 2011 02:08, Jill Jones wrote:
> The use of consonants, esp b (and f) is fascinating. The b a bit of a
> low rumble.
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> On 13/07/2011, at 8:29 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> unable to speak you’re doing this rich voice light like brambles
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>> branching
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>> silvers each surrounding branch
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>> breaks up to deep shadow
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>> breathless atmosphere shall take some telling
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>> foolish looking *and revealing
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>> flame behind skin
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>> Lawrence Upton
>> July 2011
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>> solo poems
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_U
>> pton_Try%20Valley.pdf
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_
>> Upton_Walking.pdf
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>> collaborative visual work:-
>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
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>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
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solo poems
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Try%20Valley.pdf
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Walking.pdf
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collaborative visual work:-
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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