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Tiny Montgomery
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Standpoint - new poems
« : 02.11.11 at 21:34 » |
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The latest issue of Standpoint(www.standpointmag.co.uk) contains five new poems by Clive James. A sense of mortality hangs over the best two poems - The Light As It Grows Dark and The Shadow Knows - which strike me as two of the strongest he has published. There's also a stunning short poem inspired by the movie, Shane, called Vision of Jean Arthur and the Distant Mountains.
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Kevin Cryan
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Re: Standpoint - new poems
« Reply #1: 02.11.11 at 23:00 » |
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on 02.11.11 at 21:34, Tiny_Montgomery wrote:| The latest issue of Standpoint(www.standpointmag.co.uk) contains five new poems by Clive James. A sense of mortality hangs over the best two poems - The Light As It Grows Dark and The Shadow Knows - which strike me as two of the strongest he has published. There's also a stunning short poem inspired by the movie, Shane, called Vision of Jean Arthur and the Distant Mountains. |
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Ian Chippett
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Re: Standpoint - new poems
« Reply #2: 03.11.11 at 08:35 » |
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Clive quotes himself in one of the poems!
<<I am the shadow and the widower
Because the innocent you were I slew,
But you are here, and real, and far above
My level of attainment. It is you
Who brings me back to love what we once were.>>
Ian C.
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dr_john
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Re: Standpoint - new poems
« Reply #3: 03.11.11 at 21:10 » |
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Re-quoting Gérard de Nerval, n'est-ce pas?
'Je suis le Ténébreux, le Veuf, l'Inconsolé...'
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Bogus Trumper
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Re: Standpoint - new poems
« Reply #4: 16.11.11 at 19:28 » |
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on 03.11.11 at 21:10, dr_john wrote:Re-quoting Gérard de Nerval, n'est-ce pas?
'Je suis le Ténébreux, le Veuf, l'Inconsolé...' |
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And I always thought it was Flanders and Swann...............
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