tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post2687405316537892543..comments2024-03-28T19:17:01.550+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Landfall in the newsDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-47872325837951511662007-12-12T22:29:00.000+13:002007-12-12T22:29:00.000+13:00Jack Good points - I waxed on a bit lyrically, a l...Jack <BR/><BR/>Good points - I waxed on a bit lyrically, a little exagerate! - trying to get some reactions out there! <BR/><BR/>I agree - the laureate is not as it used to be - when I was at school Masefield was the (British) Laureate - as a child I loved his poems Sea fever and the one about ships ('cutting through the channel with a coke-caked smoke stack' or something...similaris) BUT cant read him as an adult... Ron Silliman goes on endlessly and tediously about Laureates in the US so I thought I would throw that in - I would feel dubious about being a Laureate - of which there is of course no danger!! Strangely thousands don't scream for my autograph in the streets... such is the tragedy of life!<BR/><BR/>Cheers, Richard<BR/><BR/>It also occurred to me they had simply run out of space!! But I ploughed on regardless!!!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-46898920779584833972007-12-12T08:34:00.000+13:002007-12-12T08:34:00.000+13:00Actually I think you may have a point, Bill - it's...Actually I think you may have a point, Bill - it's quite possible that it was meant to be an encouraging piece, but then she simply ran out of space. Possibly I was a little intemperate. I guess it was the implicit insult to all the contributors that made me see red there for a bit.<BR/><BR/>And, Richard, I don't think all this "laureate" stuff need be quite the poetic kiss of death it is in Britain. There the job's for life, and you are expected to crank out verses from time to time. Here (as I understand it) it's more like a university residence-ship or just a bit of cash to keep up the good work. I agree with a lot of the rest of your strictures, though.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-76247110100975743092007-12-12T00:07:00.000+13:002007-12-12T00:07:00.000+13:00The Herald etc writes for gibbering imbeciles - bu...The Herald etc writes for gibbering imbeciles - but I don't buy the Herald I cant afford it - or if I can I don't get around to reading it all - I might a get a sub to Landfall. But there isn't much of worth in NZ journalism or most of our culture - so called - there are a few glossies - a lot of Lit mags but the main readers of them are those published in them. Mostly they promote pretty bad writing - that is why I am not interested in literary festivals or competition or any of it. Vanitas vanitatum.<BR/><BR/>The rest are fashion or vaguely sex,or propaganda, or sports for cretins, or more drivel of various kinds of drivel - or propaganda about shite for brains film stars etc etc etc - masses of drivel.<BR/><BR/>Even the Concert Programme has descended to drivel fro the "masses" (who are morons) except on Tuesday nights...<BR/><BR/>I one's writing is any good only about 20 people in NZ will appreciate it. I takes ages for great writing ever to be appreciated. If poetry was popular I would be suspicious - there is something in Alan Loney's stance. But one needn't be bitter - nothing will change - if Leggott* is all they can find and all they can ask is if she is the greatest poet then things are looking be bleak...Leggott has ability - but...who cares who is the "greatest"?? (esp. poet!!)<BR/><BR/>Journalists in general have a brilliant knack for stupidity or crassness - they are corrupt or lack imagination - forget them - forget the Herald - it is crap..<BR/><BR/>I didn't send in any poems (don't know if you would have accepted them - in fact I usually only send anything if asked as I don't really care that much...) because I don't really care about it all...but I can see how you and those published in Landfall 214 would be irked.<BR/><BR/>I don't read lists of writers recommended - I have too many books unread. I don't need the morons at the Herald to tell me what is good etc... <BR/><BR/>I would replace all the magazines and journals and newspapers and television programmes and films and all the music, with the total sewerage output and make a movie of that - that would be more enlightening - a modern Dante would place all the journalists and pop stars and crap mags and films and film stars and sports men and artists and religious nutters and do gooders and soldiers dying in Afgahnistan and pop music and the police and more and more all the crap and detritus and stink of modern popular "culture"; and politicians of all kinds and many others in the sewerage for eternity. <BR/><BR/>You are dealing with dribbling Morons Jack - they will never appreciate great literature or great culture...<BR/><BR/>Dogs hogs mass murderers and pigs would know more and be more appreciative...<BR/><BR/>* She is a laureate of some kind? Then I don't consider her a poet. Hewitson sounds like an imbecile.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-40997543360140272492007-12-11T23:22:00.000+13:002007-12-11T23:22:00.000+13:00Yes, well, it must have been some kind of concessi...Yes, well, it must have been some kind of concession, then Jack. Journalism is a funny thing. But next time with luck... they will say why it is so good... perhaps they could not find the words! keep up the great work. Bill D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com