tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post3592645788996935512..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Edwin MorganGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-12754040449588027812010-08-28T15:19:24.342+01:002010-08-28T15:19:24.342+01:00That's a beautiful and generous tribute, Georg...That's a beautiful and generous tribute, George. I'd expect no less from you. There's always wisdom in your writing. We are losing too many brilliant poets of the generation before us these days. I am still missing Matt Simpson terribly. But after a great poet has died, after the shock and the mourning, the path of grief leads back to the accomplishment of the work and consoles. It also faciliates evaluation of the body of the finished work and allows us to trace the rainbow arc of the writing development.angelatoppingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-73071020516394523862010-08-22T21:19:15.195+01:002010-08-22T21:19:15.195+01:00Hello Emerging Writer, when Wm Wordsworth wrote th...Hello Emerging Writer, when Wm Wordsworth wrote those immortal lines "I wandered lonely as a cloud..." I believe there were at least 3 people on the walk along that Ullswater path: poet, wife, sister. Wm was therefore far from lonely with two chatty women at his side. I believe it was his sister who made write the poem, or at least gave him the idea of it. I believe we must take what poetry we read with the proverbial pinch of salt. Or maybe go into science.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-37035290706912546062010-08-21T08:09:28.268+01:002010-08-21T08:09:28.268+01:00It's been lovely sharing your week at Ty Newyd...It's been lovely sharing your week at Ty Newydd through your posts - I feel as if I was actually there. You are very generous with your time and knowledge.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-76190156833796996532010-08-21T08:00:01.216+01:002010-08-21T08:00:01.216+01:00Such a wonderful week of blogs, George. Thank you...Such a wonderful week of blogs, George. Thank you.<br /><br />On Edwin Morgan -- I met him in Edinburgh in the 1970s with that small group of close poet friends who included Hugh McDiarmid. The irascible McDiarmid was the "older man" of the group but it was always Morgan who was the balanced and generous "heavyweight". These men were of a generation close to modernism and alwys dedicated to experimentation. They drank whisky and argued and cared for each other and were as "un-English" as you are implying. But Morgan was always the implicit and generous leader (in his poetic style as well as in his personality). I'm looking forward very much to your analysis when you reach home.Dianenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-19776573605612738232010-08-20T21:47:56.860+01:002010-08-20T21:47:56.860+01:00Great post, thanks, George. Whereas many poets dip...Great post, thanks, George. Whereas many poets dip into obscurity for a while after death, Morgan will surely become more luminous.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18308068899467100319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-66567490374978665312010-08-20T20:17:07.927+01:002010-08-20T20:17:07.927+01:00It is certainly an imagined incident though it may...It is certainly an imagined incident though it may have been an item in a newspaper. It was one of a whole series of Instamatic Poems written by Morgan and they are not all as hyper-realistic as this. Some are surreal and speculative. The polaroid camera would have just reached the peak of its popularity at the time the poems were composed.<br /><br />I am out at Ty Newydd this week (finishing tonight) tutoring a course on poems about art, including photography, with Pascale Petit and we spent some of the afternoon looking at this poem next to one of his Glasgow Sonnets.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-42033867406766211012010-08-20T19:23:57.570+01:002010-08-20T19:23:57.570+01:00Edwin Morgan has always been my favourite poet in ...Edwin Morgan has always been my favourite poet in the English language for his willingness to experiment. <br /><br />Emerging Writer - it may be an imagined scenario in the poem and one that the poet therefore couldn't intervene in,Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-83917876356872610092010-08-20T18:16:37.377+01:002010-08-20T18:16:37.377+01:00Thanks for the interesting post. I'm going to ...Thanks for the interesting post. I'm going to have to look up more from Edwin now. <br />The poem does beg the question (though I'm sure it's been said before) why was the poet not intervening? Like those journalist photos and film of people starving or dyingEmerging Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06539530495238043923noreply@blogger.com