the continuing conversation between art and life
Malcolm Guite: "I once had a conversation with the poet Seamus Heaney on when poetry lives and works in people, as opposed to being printed on a page or worse still, studied in a university somewhere - when does it actually become poetry? We both agreed that it first becomes poetry when it shimmers into …
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One way to find time to write poetry while working full-time, is to write in your lunch-hour. Frank O'Hara did. Even with a hangover. Some of his poems begin by noting the time (his lunch hour seems to have been 12 to 1 pm) and then he simply says what he's doing, eating, feeling and …
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Poets: if you manage to get a publisher to print your work in a pamphlet - how can you increase sales? (And also - how many sales can you expect, in which ways?) Poet Fiona Moore had a "moderately successful" pamphlet of her work printed by poetry published Happenstance - and noted how many copies …
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Listening to "The Verb" BBC Podcast (episode 3 Feb 2018) on writing, yesterday, on a bus, I was astonished and captivated by comments on writing, by A L Kennedy: What a writer should write: "From the writer's point of view, if you're not saying what it's burningly necessary for you to say, absolutely to …
I've just watched "Paterson" - a Jim Jarmusch film about a bus driver who secretly writes poetry and delights in overheard conversation. It's a really gentle, observant film with not much action, but a lot of listening. Here's a really good summary of it by reviewer Mark Kermode, who sums it up as a 'mood …
Mary Oliver on modern poetry, her writing practice, early morning as a time to be creative, and loving concern for the environment
Maria Wigley combines embroidered handwriting with poetry and photography. If the thought of that excites you half as much as it thrills me, then don't miss her website As an arts college tutor, Maria has thought much about her art and is able to pull out of her bag the quote: “Painting is silent …
exhibition of contemporary art and poetry, covering Eastertide, Resurrection to Ascension.
This was something W H Auden the poet lived with, as his wish for a monogamous relationship with the one he loved, was not returned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhtrXdirXk4 "If equal affection cannot be - let the more loving one be me" was his positive life resolution. (Poem read by W H Auden, Edited, produced and uploaded by ScientificUnity)
