“The best poems come from the world, go through the poet and go back in to the world.”
A little cultural interlude now with a conversational interview, from Saturday’s Guardian Review, with Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon referencing, among other things, the focus of his recently published collection of Oxford lectures – The End of the Poem – “the ‘invisible threads’ that connect words and works”, the kindness of fellow poet Seamus Heaney, and the worry of becoming “a sort of a poetry machine”. His website contains a number of recordings of him reading his work at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in 2002, including the superb Meeting the British [mp3 file]
“What matters is that something is captured and is equal to that moment. A bleakness that can meet the bleakness, or a gaiety that can meet the gaiety. But there tends to be less joy than bleakness, alas. It seems that unhappiness is more interesting.”
in your case misery peteb
parci
If you can’t, or won’t, play the ball.. perhaps you’d be better advised not to comment at all.
Well said,Pete.
By the way, I’m enjoying listening to the clip
bad hair day peteb… I’m not perfect.. sorry