tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post7004619634459936734..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Pictures, forms, families (6): the eventGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-50750421150385379662011-11-22T15:58:26.902+00:002011-11-22T15:58:26.902+00:00Nothing to do with the present topic, I'm afra...Nothing to do with the present topic, I'm afraid, I just thought you'd like to know of this event:<br /><br />http://www.llenyddiaethcymru.org/home/i/140328/desc/first-showing-of-the-bards-of-wales-ndash-a-walesi-baacuterdok/Dafydd Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00805522795225835335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-54112662402767398722011-11-21T16:47:06.259+00:002011-11-21T16:47:06.259+00:00Thanks pantherThanks pantherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-91317893954971345792011-11-21T15:13:47.201+00:002011-11-21T15:13:47.201+00:00Anonymous, I like what you're doing here, offe...Anonymous, I like what you're doing here, offering a powerful antidote to utter nastiness (why ARE some people so downright nasty and weird ???).<br /><br /> Am just off to read about your process.panthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-34215949598265001372011-11-21T12:16:58.257+00:002011-11-21T12:16:58.257+00:00The specular form reminds me of the 'write-thr...The specular form reminds me of the 'write-through' form, that I thought I'd invented when I wrote-through Sylvia Plaths poem Collosus. I was in the thrid year of my writing degree, tutored by the linguistically innovative poet Robert Sheppard, at Edge Hill in Ormskirk.<br /><br />I was working on my final six poems for the Poetry module, in spring 2004, looking out of the window at the fresh budding trees, extemporising what I saw, but not really excited, and then I had the diea to take what I had written and re-write it using the exact same words. So the second half of the poem contained the same words re-ordered. I'd just got Plath and Hughes collections out of the library, reading themm for the first time, and I flicked through them with the idea being to take one of theirs and write-through it, plumping for Collosus.<br /><br />I published the write-through and documented the process <a href="http://irishpoetry.blogspot.com/2006/03/write-through.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />I often do this exercise. It is a useful way to generate text when you aren't firing with your own originality. You can write-through anything, and eventually you develop the skills where you can actually take apart the words into their constituent letters. I turned this text, a nasty anonymous comment on Katy Evans-Bush's blog, turning it into something positive.<br /><br />"Dear Ms Baroque (If that is your real name)<br /><br />Did you know the following?<br /><br />a. Noone cares about your opinion.<br /><br />b. Your photo alone is enough to make most either stop reading, vomit on there crotch or track you down just to slap you round your pretensious face with there flacid cock.<br /><br />c. Your head is so far up your anal passage that you have gone on a disgusting trip, passing the wonders of your bowels, instestines, stomach, up your esphongus and out your mouth which has never known when to shut up."<br /><br />~<br /><br />Dear Baroque<br /><br />Did you know that you<br />Alone make most here care<br />About your words<br />And love you for your<br />Face, your name, reality<br />And poetical opinion;<br /><br />Sensuous sage who honey mouths<br />The art of hope,<br />A truth torc loose around your neck;<br /><br />Sing with the eye alone<br />Hear alphabets’ music wooing in ether.<br /><br />Your tongue scripts star-light,<br />Its naked truth shoving asunder<br />Chasms of doubt, out past new<br />Moon-strips opposite sun rings<br />Pouring down his wing-shook<br />Privacy, a huff on jute<br />You own,<br />chop to us<br />C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com