tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post2558675114025588877..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - The Second CurtainMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-24530989812829043842009-09-25T22:27:26.910+01:002009-09-25T22:27:26.910+01:00Hi Paul - it was a student thing, really! I don...Hi Paul - it was a student thing, really! I don't think I've written any poetry since the late 70s. In those days I tried all kinds of writing, including radio plays, which I was very keen on, and jokey sketches. A long time ago.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-8003881664248892092009-09-25T22:26:02.445+01:002009-09-25T22:26:02.445+01:00Minnie, I couldn't agree more! And I'm gla...Minnie, I couldn't agree more! And I'm glad to have found someone else who has read this book.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-54686248136948960862009-09-25T16:47:42.045+01:002009-09-25T16:47:42.045+01:00Ah ha, so you were a poet too!
Strange, isn’t it,...Ah ha, so you were a poet too!<br /><br />Strange, isn’t it, how many crime writers started off writing poetry then dropped it along the way, almost as if poetry were a launchpad for crime! Though it seems to have worked rather the other way round with Roy Fuller; did he publish any crime after ‘Fantasy and Fugue’ in 1954?<br /><br />Surely there’s a special relationship between the two forms, a common impulse to do with symmetry and wordcraft, a desire to find patterns and pin down the intangible yet still give a sense of something beyond the words. I much admire crime-writing poets such as John Harvey, James Sallis and Sophie Hannah.<br /><br />As the humorous crime writer L. C. Tyler said in a 2005 interview on the PanMacmillan website:<br /><br />“Poems are prose distilled into the headiest form of literature you can legally get your hands on. All good prose (and I do try to write good prose) should aspire deep down to being poetry. When a poet like Owen Sheers or Helen Dunmore writes prose, you can feel the way every word is made to count – you can feel the underlying rhythm of what they write.”<br /><br />Are you ever still tempted to whittle a crafty stanza, Martin?<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />PaulPaul Beechnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-61657348951687375542009-09-25T13:00:02.329+01:002009-09-25T13:00:02.329+01:00Had completely forgotten this novel, which I read ...Had completely forgotten this novel, which I read aeons ago - and loved. So thank you for the reminder; will have to see if it stands up to a second reading (suspect it will).<br />Writer friends always boost each other; but then, they wouldn't be friends if they disliked each other's 'voice', I suppose.<br />I seem to remember RF was on the board of the Woolwich pre Barclay's takeoever - ie when it was a mutual society, exclusively concerned with savings accounts + mortgage loans ... which, curiously, suddenly seems like A Very Good Thing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-67333366145609619502009-09-25T12:26:41.723+01:002009-09-25T12:26:41.723+01:00It sounds like an interesting novel. I like novels...It sounds like an interesting novel. I like novels that are about real men rather than heroic ones.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com