tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post711801836111452227..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: #467Jim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-25600350563806636642015-02-11T05:12:25.994+00:002015-02-11T05:12:25.994+00:00I'm glad you think so, Kass,I'm glad you think so, <b>Kass</b>,Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-2464189759325379912015-02-10T17:18:54.254+00:002015-02-10T17:18:54.254+00:00Such a jolting and strong poem.Such a jolting and strong poem.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-68106661611580440062015-02-10T02:51:55.402+00:002015-02-10T02:51:55.402+00:00Horace apparently said that one shouldn’t publish ...Horace apparently said that one shouldn’t publish a poem until ten years after its finished. I wonder what he’d think of our digital world, <b>Gwilliam</b>, where poems get published <i>before</i> they’re even finished? You do need distance to be able to look at a poem with anything close to objectivity. This is why this is proving an interesting exercise because I’m getting to sit down with a single poem and look at it with fresh eyes. Our best work is always our latest work. So we think. I’m editing a novel just now that I finished over ten years back and it really is like reading someone else’s book. Thank God he can write, that’s all I have to say even if he does feel the need to hyphenate everything.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-9515119431705996122015-02-09T18:11:20.578+00:002015-02-09T18:11:20.578+00:00It's true we cannot judge our own stuff Jim, a...It's true we cannot judge our own stuff Jim, as that's for others. Sometimes we can if we haven't seen it for a year or two and we come upon it fresh and think if we wrote it or we just noted it down from a book we read. It's a big problem I have. I have piles and piles of paper covered with scribbles. What's originally mine and what is someone's thought I've delighted in and captured in passing I cannot tell.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-46539318032098341602015-02-09T04:04:21.801+00:002015-02-09T04:04:21.801+00:00Excellent, eh, Gwilliam? Glad you think so. I’m no...Excellent, eh, <b>Gwilliam</b>? Glad you think so. I’m not the best judge. The first poem means so much to me that it’s hard to look at the others objectively; I’ll post the third and final poem on Wednesday and you can see what you think of the set.<br /><br />And, <b>Kirk</b>, in my first novel Jonathan Payne lives in the northern seaside town of Rigby. The choice was quite deliberate and I’ve always been fond of the song. That my poem would remind you of it is just fine by me.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-59317472361636052782015-02-08T20:40:02.848+00:002015-02-08T20:40:02.848+00:00I don't know that you'd appreciate one of ...I don't know that you'd appreciate one of your poems compared to a pop song, but this reminded me a little of Eleanor Rigby, and I mean that in a good way. Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-65946194386286480702015-02-08T14:53:46.224+00:002015-02-08T14:53:46.224+00:00I think this is an excellent piece of work and a f...I think this is an excellent piece of work and a finely crafted poem, it has the real poetic touch , it is memorable on first reading, it touches on a subject that we all witness in our city streets today, and I think it is an important poem that should be widely promulgated. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.com