Friday, April 10, 2009


More for curiosity's sake than anything else - these were written six, seven, eight years ago? Mostly clumsy & showing all sorts of nods to & mannerisms of but there are a few lines I like & then again these were the poems that formed the basis of the first Lisa J. correspondence. From which I'd like to think I learned a lot.  

Maybe I should put them up on the ramp & give them a thorough 'controle technique'? 

2 comments:

walrus said...

Yes I liked these a lot. Why are they not in a collection/poetry magazines?

I liked the Hulot poem; also the last 3 lines of 'Go and Buy Some Money'. 'Merely Sandwiches' I liked too, but thought maybe drop the last 2 lines?

I liked the slowing down, irritable effect of 'as she / likes / we' in 'N'est pas?', very effective -- I'd be interested to know why you think they're derivative/your influences. I detect a note of Beckett in 'much weather / much the same' in 'Film script' but that ain't a problem for me.

There are plenty of good poems here. Don't hide them under a bushel.

W

belgianwaffle said...

Greetings from Yateley Public Library!

I have 56 mins left of time on terminal 2.

I also have the elder Wafflette pestering me about the DVD collections.

Quick thanks for such positive comments - I did put them together as a little pamphlet (with hand-drawn cover by younger Wafflette) but - as with so many of my projects - they have been gathering dust.

On my return to Brussels I'll dig them out & look at them again - bearing your suggestions in mind.

From now through to the summer I'm really aiming to revise, collect together and print as much as I can.

The past week and a bit has been fun but not very useful in terms of writing time.

More on my return!

Cheers

The C.

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