tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post3857780698296206913..comments2023-11-05T09:33:34.696+00:00Comments on The 'Spill: Poets and pop.Blimpyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03062521891682719767noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-23271203028128919862009-07-25T22:08:32.609+01:002009-07-25T22:08:32.609+01:00Toffeeboy - completely agree with you, music is po...Toffeeboy - completely agree with you, music is poetry. Words have their own cadence - I mentioned 'The Schooner Flight' on this blog a couple of weeks ago (Derek Walcott). It should be read out loud.AliMundayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03702895287972476882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-12163785936098071612009-07-25T17:27:05.949+01:002009-07-25T17:27:05.949+01:00Hi Toffee and May
I KNEW I'd get some interes...Hi Toffee and May<br /><br />I KNEW I'd get some interesting comments on this. Hooray! Conversation you can chew on.<br />S'wonderful, s'marvellous.<br /><br />Thanks for the links.<br /><br />(And for the evolving nick. I like Caitlinpuss. Maybe I should give Dangerpuss back to its rightful owner now. It's my cat's secret superhero identity. She doesn't do a lot of typing, what with the opposible thumbs issue. Perhaps I should mutate into TypoGirl.) <br /><br />Anyway, yes there's poetry in all good songs. I think I read somewhere recently that our new poet laureate Carol Ann did some kind of live jam with music. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking. She's doing a fine job so far. Very refreshing.<br /><br />Cheers, CaitlinDangerpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12598184492638893205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-37060097640545726682009-07-25T14:22:15.809+01:002009-07-25T14:22:15.809+01:00Hello Caitlin, great to see you on here. As severa...Hello Caitlin, great to see you on here. As several of the old lags here know, my day job is writing and, whenever I trace the reasons why, throughout my teens, I developed the ambition to be a poet, music plays a massive part. Listening to John Peel obviously satisfied my punk and new wave sensibilities but it also introduced me to reggae, country & western...and contemporary poetry - John Cooper Clarke, Ivor Cutler, Attila the Stockbroker and, in particular, Linton Kwesi Johnson. <br /><br />Far from there being a separation, I always aspired to the state of music with my writing, more so than I've ever bothered about it passing muster as 'literature'. It's a reversal of the traditional Dylan/Keats snobbery - Ode To A Nightingale's all very well, but imagine writing something that has the same overall effect as Coltrane's A Love Supreme, or Debussy's Arabesques, or Martha Reeves' Heatwave, or...basically, name your poison.<br /><br />Anyway, here's a link that might amuse or outrage - a (fairly meek) translation of "A Rebuke to Aurelius and Furius" by the Roman poet, Catullus. I wish I'd come across this during the Cruel Songs theme:<br /><br />http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Catullus.htm#_Toc531846744May1366https://www.blogger.com/profile/16866631487529467391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-38234888933058651332009-07-25T12:33:56.733+01:002009-07-25T12:33:56.733+01:00Hey, Caitlinpuss! To me, and I suspect many other...Hey, Caitlinpuss! To me, and I suspect many others on the 'Spill, music <i>is</i> poetry. A good lyric is a big part of what I love about music which is why bands/acts like Prefab Sprout, The Go-Bewteens, The Decemberists, Death Cab For Cutie, Everything But The Girl and Sufjan Stevens figure so highly in my listening lists.<br /><br />The best example I know of poetry set to music is The <b>Go-Betweens</b>' <i>When People Are Dead</i>.<br /><br /><a href="http://files.getdropbox.com/u/585963/14%20When%20People%20Are%20Dead.mp3" rel="nofollow">When People Are Dead</a><br /><br />Who knows, the link may even work ...ToffeeBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09610938852113922395noreply@blogger.com