tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post8177901022231626435..comments2023-11-03T11:00:07.566+00:00Comments on Displacement: Aldeburgh Poetry Festival: this year, the dawn was redFiona Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-42441708517462421112013-11-18T16:17:09.479+00:002013-11-18T16:17:09.479+00:00Dear Fiona
Good to hear that Aldeburgh was well w...Dear Fiona<br /><br />Good to hear that Aldeburgh was well worth the fare but sorry to hear that CB Editions are going into hibernation. It was interesting to read about Robert Lowell being envious of Elizabeth Bishop's poem 'Armadillo'. I began writing poetry because I was jealous of one of my father's poems and wished that I had written it. If you like funny limericks, there are hundreds in my new book 'Homage to Edward Lear & Hillimericks' (£7.00 Lulu.com) which would make an excellent Christmas present!<br /><br />Best wishes from SimonPoetry Pleases!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16686247991180317838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-85774305267483307902013-11-17T21:09:44.326+00:002013-11-17T21:09:44.326+00:00Thanks Jax, maybe it'll happen one of these da...Thanks Jax, maybe it'll happen one of these days. <br /><br />You are dead right about CBe having won three times. Three out of the last five wins, what a record. Enjoy Voices Over Water.Fiona Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-85125003391835561582013-11-16T00:48:32.411+00:002013-11-16T00:48:32.411+00:00Poets reading other poets' poems? What an exce...Poets reading other poets' poems? What an excellent idea! I hope someone somewhere re-starts such a concept. I think it would be fascinating, and might distance the poem from the 'definitive' rendition that a poem's poet may suggest by reading it themselves, and so still allow the listener's own interpretation to get a foot in.<br /><br />You've also reminded me that I've had a copy of Voices Over Water on my shelf for months and have never started it! Now seems a good time. And isn't this in fact the third time a CB editions poet has won the Aldeburgh? As far as I know those are also the only three 'first collections' CBe has yet published. Arts Council of England take note! Can any other publisher (big or small) match that? - JaxJaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373293901832175901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-22350845493609162232013-11-14T08:32:27.530+00:002013-11-14T08:32:27.530+00:00Thanks Clarissa - great to have a Canadian's p...Thanks Clarissa - great to have a Canadian's perspective on Solie.Fiona Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-49656212412690240562013-11-14T00:01:46.955+00:002013-11-14T00:01:46.955+00:00I will have to go another year. I think both Karen...I will have to go another year. I think both Karen Solie and Nikola Madzirov are brilliant and I wish I'd caught them at Poetry Parnassus, but there was so much going on that I missed a lot, and I didn't know yet that I loved their poetry! As a Canadian I can say that Karen Solie is deeply Canadian but not in the sort of...preachy way that Can-lit quite often falls into a trap. She's got the sense of space, all right, and she finds insight in ruined landscapes as well as the beauty of Canadian nature.Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-63738248510158077942013-11-13T22:33:59.521+00:002013-11-13T22:33:59.521+00:00Thank you Nell, I'm pleased, though sorry you ...Thank you Nell, I'm pleased, though sorry you weren't there. It was a good weekend. Writing about it helps fix some of the things in my mind. <br /><br />As for the sea, that was my first swim at the festival, I hope it won't be the last. Two hours later, after a hot shower and with a big bowl of porridge inside me, I was still feeling fiery shivers from the cold while listening to Solie and Madzirov discussing music and poetry.Fiona Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-42578555191706110552013-11-13T22:10:15.534+00:002013-11-13T22:10:15.534+00:00Reading this makes me feel as though I had been th...Reading this makes me feel as though I had been there. Though not, fortunately in the icy sea. Thank you!Helena Nelsonhttp://www.happenstancepress.comnoreply@blogger.com