Fair do's Andrew.
Bill
On 08/02/2013, at 9:34 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Thanks, Bill. That is one of my favourites, too. It wouldn't work as a
> poem-poem, it isn't a short story although it has narrative yet it has all
> of the elements of a poem in it. So, the natural term for it is - prose
> poem. Thank you for bringing that up as an example.
>
> Anecdote: My friend and learned poet, Dennis Haskell, and I used to sit
> down and look at each others WIP. It only lasted a short while, this
> workshopping, but it gave me a wonderful insight into how different all us
> poets are! I showed him a draft of a prose poem one day, and his response
> was: "Hmmm ... You could cut that up into lines and make it a* real* poem
> ..."
>
> Andrew
>
> On 8 February 2013 07:40, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Andrew, I may be in the wrong string here but apropos your
>> conversation with Lawrence re lineation and the poet's right, I read The
>> Perfume Factory the other day in your Undercover collection and it stayed
>> with me. Maybe it was the two paragrsph prose poem page structure that
>> helped implant it, not sure. Also words like 'pong'. And mainly the shared
>> experience with the father, a sort of urban legend being built up about the
>> degree of smell expected and how you all went along with it when you were
>> in the vicinity.
>>
>> In my own case, mum lived near an old gasometer at the foot of the street
>> in Bakewell St, Bendigo. When we could smell the gas, as kids, she'd pass
>> on what her father had said to her - that the smell was good for your
>> nostrils, it broadened your olfactory system - or some such. And we just
>> accepted that. And thought we were being enriched, not assaulted each time.
>>
>> Wandered a bit here but I like your 'gleeful faints'.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> morning cooled Bill
>>
>> On 07/02/2013, at 4:14 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> H is for Hot ... S is for Sweat ... That's all the mind can create here,
>>> today, hey, Bill. I have the air con blasting out. Almost 40 here today
>> in
>>> North East NSW.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On 7 February 2013 15:16, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Doug. Hard to build more than snappettes in this enervating
>> heat.
>>>> 36 again today and the second day in a row of severe, fire ban weather.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On 07/02/2013, at 2:44 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ha: keep going, then, Bill.
>>>>>
>>>>> It can be great fun...
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>> On 2013-02-05, at 1:31 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nonymous
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Eschewed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> His chance
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For fifteen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Minutes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of mous.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Djunct
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dreamed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of branching out
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bet
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Contracted
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aids.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Slant
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Skidded
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To a halt.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Far
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Neared.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ppear
>>>>>>
>>>>>> E
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Merged.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Broad
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Suffered from
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Homesickness.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aconda
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfurled loopfully, languorously, entering Amazon with no trace of
>>>> lollop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill, just getting started.
>>>>>
>>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew
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>>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
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