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You might want to watch that _Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device_ in this context Smiley L On Thu, July 14, 2011 11:57, Angela Keaton wrote: > Mm, we must have met some of the same poets! > A. > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> > Sender: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:47:05 > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Moonlight > > > It's all right. I knew what you meant, but I couldn't resist it; plus a > certain realisation that I might deploy that against some poets I could > name > > But I probably won't > > > L > > > On Thu, July 14, 2011 11:43, Angela Keaton wrote: > >> Sorry, typo! Meant 'prose' not that you were a poseur. I thought that >> your explanation of the process of writing 'Moonlight' read like a prose >> poem. Regards A. >> >> >> >> >> ------Original Message------ >> From: Lawrence Upton >> Sender: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics >> To: [log in to unmask] >> ReplyTo: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics >> Subject: Re: Moonlight >> Sent: 14 Jul 2011 11:26 >> >> >> >> Pose poems? >> >> >> >> L >> >> >> >> On Thu, July 14, 2011 10:54, Angela Keaton wrote: >> >> >>> And sometimes, it seems, you write pose poems about your 'snapshot' >>> poems. Thanks. Angela. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> >>> Sender: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" >>> <[log in to unmask]> >>> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:40:56 >>> To: <[log in to unmask]> >>> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" >>> <[log in to unmask]> >>> 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. >>>> >>>> J >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __________________________ >>>> Jill Jones >>>> [log in to unmask] >>>> >>>> website: www.jilljones.com.au >>>> blog: rubystreet.blogspot.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 13/07/2011, at 8:29 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> unable to speak you’re doing this rich voice light like brambles >>>>> >>>>> branching >>>>> >>>>> silvers each surrounding branch >>>>> >>>>> breaks up to deep shadow >>>>> >>>>> breathless atmosphere shall take some telling >>>>> >>>>> foolish looking *and revealing >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> flame behind skin >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Lawrence Upton >>>>> July 2011 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- >>>>> solo poems >>>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html >>>>> >>>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripat >>>>> eti ca_U pton_Try%20Valley.pdf >>>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripat >>>>> et ic a_ Upton_Walking.pdf ----- collaborative visual work:- >>>>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html >>>>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html >>>>> ---- >>>>> Lawrence Upton >>>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow >>>>> Dept of Music >>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> solo poems >>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html >>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica >>> _U >>> pt on_Try%20Valley.pdf >>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetic >>> a_ Up >>> ton_Walking.pdf ----- collaborative visual work:- >>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html >>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html >>> ---- >>> Lawrence Upton >>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow >>> Dept of Music >>> Goldsmiths, University of London >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ----- >> solo poems >> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html >> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_U >> pt on_Try%20Valley.pdf >> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_ >> Up >> ton_Walking.pdf ----- collaborative visual work:- >> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html >> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html >> ---- >> Lawrence Upton >> AHRC Creative Research Fellow >> Dept of Music >> Goldsmiths, University of London >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device >> > > > ----- > solo poems > http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html > http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upt > on_Try%20Valley.pdf > http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Up > ton_Walking.pdf ----- > collaborative visual work:- > http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html > http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html > ---- > Lawrence Upton > AHRC Creative Research Fellow > Dept of Music > Goldsmiths, University of London > > ----- 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 ----- collaborative visual work:- http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html ---- Lawrence Upton AHRC Creative Research Fellow Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London