Re: [acornlive] (Fwd) WHY2K?
Alex Keegan (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:38:48 -0000
I'm mainly a short-story writer, more-so than poet,
for sure.
I need? To think, is all.
Alex
Alex Keegan, Bath, England
http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.keegan1
Boot Camp http://www.onelist.com/community/Gridders
----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Stenhouse <marystenhouse@eircom.net>
To: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [acornlive] (Fwd) WHY2K?
> Hi All
> It would appear that there is at last a serious discussion of the art of
> poetry going on. How refreshing. Alex, what is it that drives your life
to
> aspire to those things you believe you need? I would hazard a guess that
it
> is the same thing that prompts your art. We are all emotional beings,
some
> more than others. However the poet or literary writer must be able to
> tease, from those emotions, an infinite range from a finite set of words.
A
> difficult enough task on its own, made even more difficult when ones mind
is
> overcrowded with passion. Again this is where the poet should have the
> advantage. The poet should be, to some extent dispassionate, should
> disassociate themselves from the emotion and dissect it. Once one has
found
> the meat on the bone of emotion, the passion, only then can the poet put
> down the words which s/he hopes will strike at the soul of the reader.
> You only consider your best work to be the brighter poetry because that is
> how you would believe the world to be. Your darker poetry is telling you
> that there is an alternative side to life which must be explored and if
> necessary disseminated. Be of good cheer poet and let not your passion
rule
> your emotions. Rather allow your emotion to guide your passion.
> Perhaps if you read some of the stories of 'The Mullah Nazrudin' you
would
> find inspiration?
> Good writing
> Douglas.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Keegan <alex.keegan1@btinternet.com>
> To: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 7:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [acornlive] (Fwd) WHY2K?
>
>
> > I get less than a post a week, is that right?
> >
> > As for gloom, dunno, but many people write because they have ghosts...
and
> > mine queue up... most of my stories are dark, fatalistic... but
> > interestingly my lighter, lightweight ones are far more popular.
> >
> > My deep belief is something like "Life's a bitch and then you die", even
> > when I'm going through a brilliant time, in love, with kids, whatever...
> > just seems life is tough and dark and that's where the meat of our art
> comes
> > from.
> >
> > But honesly, seriously, I'm not a miserable bloke, just an optimistic
> > fatalist.
> >
> >
> > My biggest hits have involved:
> >
> > A history of a man who survives a mining disaster, then war (best friend
> > killed) and aches to see the man who mentored hm as a youngster.
> >
> > A father who accidentally takes out his daughter's eye.
> >
> > A man dying of (?) who sits on a bus and reflects about a life full of
> (his)
> > emotional cruelty.
> >
> > A man dying of (?) who takes the kids to Disney but keeps his impending
> > death a secret.
> >
> > More recently, a blocked writer so fascinated by bleeding from his rear
> that
> > he bleeds to death in the bath "for the experience".
> >
> > (Hello List).
> >
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > Alex Keegan, Bath, England
> > http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.keegan1
> > Boot Camp http://www.onelist.com/community/Gridders
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nessa O'Mahony <nessa@indigo.ie>
> > To: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 6:39 AM
> > Subject: [acornlive] (Fwd) WHY2K?
> >
> >
> > > Hi there
> > >
> > > I wondered whether any of you bright people had any suggestions
> > > for John - his is an accurate observation, I believe.
> > >
> > > ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> > > Date sent: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:28:07 +1200
> > > From: "john O'Neill" <kiwijohn@igrin.co.nz>
> > > To: nessa@indigo.ie
> > > Subject: WHY2K?
> > >
> > > Dear Nessa
> > > Thank you for publishing my fable in Acorn. I am in good, if
depressing,
> > > company. Is there an explanation for the obvious fact that as Ireland
> > > and the Irish grew more prosperous, their writing grew more
> > > introspective and dark?
> > > Yours, hopefully,
> > > John O'Neill
> > >
> > >
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