what I want, after everything i have, you know like food, clothes, a roof above my head, love and friendship, is to be taken seriously as a professional poet. and that takes luck, lots and lots of luck, but it also takes hard work, discipline, marketing, networking, lots and lots [...]
Archive for the ‘Poetics’ Category
I don’t even give a fuck, anymore
Posted in Poetics on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Monday Poem: We remember your childhood well, by Carol Ann Duffy
Posted in Poetics on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nobody hurt you. Nobody turned off the light and argued
with somebody else all night. The bad man on the moors
was only a movie you saw. Nobody locked the door.
Your questions were answered fully. No. That didn’t occur.
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Poetry
Posted in Poetics on December 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is a copy of a comment I left over at the Bead Shop The words in italics are Jenn’s, the rest are mine. There’s some stuff in it I might revisit further in the future
I don’t think poetry is that important to me, at least not on the face of it. I see the [...]
“Religions are poems”
Posted in Poetics, spirituality on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
recently there was an article in the guardian entitled Religions are Poems which caught my eye because for me poetry is an incredibly important part of my spirituality and at some point in the future I would love to do some proper academic research on the cultural and spiritual relationship between poetry and prayer. [...]
Sunday Poem: Cartoon Physics by Nick Flynn
Posted in Poetics on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Children under, say, ten, shouldn’t know
that the universe is ever-expanding,
inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies
swallowed by galaxies, whole
solar systems collapsing, all of it
acted out in silence. At ten we are still learning
the rules of cartoon animation,
that if a man draws a door on a rock
only he can pass through it.
Anyone else who tries
will crash into [...]
Poetry and Politics
Posted in Poetics, politics on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Exploring Poetry
Posted in Poetics on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the days are getting shorter, and the winter is drawing in, the harvest is almost over and the air is full of woodsmoke and deep autumn sadness, this is the usually the moment that stretches through cold and dark as we wait for the springtime. But for me it seems I am compelled to find [...]
