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Monday 1 October 2007

Poems Not To Be Read Aloud: 7 -- by File

Dyed

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26 comments:

tony said...

Once again, that's magnificent, file. I've told you what to do with series - get started before anyone else does!

tony said...

... before someone else does.

Anonymous said...

Bleak, but brilliant. And cunning.

guitougoal said...

File,
"dunt, blunt eye" , also a rugby ball passing the posts, a black agercondra snake eye or even the last Vassarely.

offsideintahiti said...

*wink*

file said...

thanks Tony, Mimi, guys, difficult to know what to do with them really, was thinking of making beer mats...

offsideintahiti said...

Posters. 4X3.

tony said...

Come on, File. Maybe beer mats too, but the first thing has to be posters - maybe even a small exhibition to start with...

Come on you lot, all together, after 3...

POSTERS!!!

Anonymous said...

What do want?

tony said...

POSTERS!!!

Anonymous said...

When do we want'em?

Anonymous said...

NOW!!!

Zephirine said...

Dog, guys, the t-shirts never happened and the book is still waiting for Ebren to understand how to do his new job....now you want POSTERS???

Good idea though. Posters are easy to get made but a pain to post, maybe easier from Canada File?

I think this is a grim and resonant work, one of the best so far, a bit too dark emotionally to put it on the wall maybe...?

offsideintahiti said...

I like dark on a wall.

guitougoal said...

zeph,
I suspect File to follow a tradition of humanity's endless fascination with intellectual disorder-
But he is brilliant at it. Scientific poetry was regarded as a burlesque tradition, file's it's more open minded, he leaves us a total freedom of interpretation...don't you think?-(we may discuss it while he is asleep!)

Anonymous said...

poet endormi
shuuuut! je dors.I was dreaming in french of the buckyballs poem...Silence please.

Zephirine said...

It's only the appearance of intellectual disorder, Guitou. It seems to me that File's gift is for building up a richness of imagery which can seem random but all links to conscious thought processes through the poem, sometimes the thought processes become buried under the imagery but they were always there.

I would really like to see the works in this series shown together in a gallery somewhere... and no doubt some day they will be.

guitougoal said...

Zeph,
I agree, following the tradition in appearance only, I should be more precised.
Thanks- we should organize the expo "du cote de chez Proust"
a bientot.

offsideintahiti said...

I'd hang them up at my place, no question. Especially Orion and the last two.

Anonymous said...

There is much in this gallery I would seek to own. This poem is one, and despite my dark fears, Orion is another. I'd also like Tony's story, and going right back, I'd like Zeph's Shipping Forecast.

We are a multi-talented bunch, fellow writers, it should not be beyond our ken to find a way of doing book, T Shirt, poster.

Shall we have a go again, at co-ordinating and making it work?

guitougoal said...

mimi,
I admire your perseverance-

file said...

it's far easier to respond to warts, haven't you got any warts?

redder Chloe, didn't we meet in Berlin?

I probably overuse imagery but I think that's just me, really thanks for the deep thoughts Zeph and Guitou, there is a thought process somewhere, surprising to me that it's not always clear!! but I hope that there is 'freedom of interpretation' though obviously aim too at inclining through evocation, hopefully on different levels

posters are do-able for sure but costs might be a bit prohibitive on just a few to send out

I'm going to get some decent prints made and hawk 'em round Lit. magazines and galleries when I get to Canada, there's not much I can do from here except listen to the muses and your good selves (not always distinct which is which, it's a funny world online isn't it?)

this is a BIG learning process for me and a HUGE thanks from me to you all for helping me through it

Anonymous said...

Good idea file. Anyone living in Britain a good hawker? I'll try here in Barna for Orion%...

file said...

...blue ocean marketing strategy; work out who doesn't buy dodgy poetry posters and target them...

offsideintahiti said...

Just keep writing, filou, and it will sort itself out, I'm sure.

file said...

thanks O, I will!