Poetry In Motion

Meanderer

Meanderer

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“Maybe poetry isn’t relevant. People can live perfectly good lives only ever trotting out poetry for weddings and funerals. But there’s also something sad about that. It’s like spending your whole life just eating TV Dinners, never really experiencing the full possibilities of language.”


How can poets collaborate with other artists and communities to bring poetry into the world in new ways?
 

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Thanks Larry, now that I have re-read them, I do recall your Big Ed poem! We call the little windy trails"cow paths", but I liked "Calf path" very much! Thanks again! -Jim
 
I love poetry [I read it but don't write it.]Just now I have been re-reading a well thumbed copy of the poems of Philip Larkin, but I read a variety of poets, probably because I am English the British poets 'speak to me' more than others.I prefer 20th century poetry[and 21st of course !]
 
Watching a bit of old film [from 1950] of Dylan Thomas doing a reading of his poems in New York I was struck by the silly sounding voice he put on.Then, watching another programme about him, it was said that he was ashamed to sound Welsh for the readings and thought he should sound very BBC. What a mistake. Just listen to a recording of Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood [with his Welsh accent] that is how Thomas should have done it.
 
Beautiful that is! :) My daughter-in-law has Welsh parents and I must say I always love their accents. Wales is less than a 2 hour drive from us, we should go more often.
 
Fire on Christmas Day - A Child's Christmas in Wales

Fire on Christmas Day, from Wales Theatre Company's 2014 production of Dylan Thomas' A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES


 
Great vids Meanderer, thank you.:)Apart from a lot of 20th century poetry I love The Sonnets [by William S.]Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Who wouldn't want to receive a sonnet like that through the post?! Sigh.
 
O'Toole chooses dry cleaner's note for his tombstone epitaph!

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http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=701150720&cat=&n_date=20070115
"At 74, Irish actor Peter O'Toole has decided on the message he'ld like engraved on his tombstone. The legendary star wants the note from his dry cleaner that once made him chuckle written on his gravestone.The Lawrence Of Arabia admits he once got a letter about his favourite battered, well-worn leather jacket by his dry claner, that said: " It distresses us to return work which is not perfect, "and has always thought it would make the perfect testimonial."Many years ago I had a beloved leather jacket... and I never wanted to throw it away. I sent it to the cleaners because it was covered in blood and Guinness and scotch and Corn Flakes, the usual," Contactmusic quoted the star, as saying."It went off to the Sycamore Cleaners and it came back with a thing pinned on it: 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect' - so I want that on my tombstone,"
 
I first read Under Milk Wood in college, but it wasn't until I listened to a recorded reading that I really fell in love with it.

Although I was never officially diagnosed as a child, I've come to the conclusion that I am somewhat dyslectic and this makes it almost impossible to enjoy reading poetry, but listening to it spoken is a different matter.

I chose to name the land in the Ozarks where I lived for 25 years "Donkey Down" which is a place name in Under Milk Wood. And yes there were donkeys grazing on my Donkey Down.
 
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