Sunday, 18 October 2009
Sunday night is... Film Noir
Very nice list of the films from which scenes were taken here. Myself? Back from day at the Hungarian School in Highgate where C and I learn the basic steps of the csárdás, eat gulyás and almás pite, listen to AL on Hungarian poetry and her own, and I do an impromptu talk on translation before returning to visit my father, thence home.
On the subject of film noir there will be something to think about at another time.
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Have you seen Patience Agbabi's film noir corona 'Vicious Circle'? (from 'Bloodshot Monochrome') I heard her read it at Cheltenham last year and was very taken with it
I do believe it is what Patience showed me some time ago when she got in touch. Partly because I had written three coronas in Portrait of My Father in an English Landscape.
Her corona was very good. Patience is generally very good.
agreed, she is very good - I liked the way she was able to suggest the mood of film noir through her syntax.
And coronas are not easy - or should I say I don't find them easy; inspired by Patience's, I wrote one as part of my MA dissertation and found I had to consciously adjust my process. What works for short lyrics wouldn't work for this.
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