Comments on: Feral http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2009/07/feral/ NO SOONER THE WORD THAN THE FICTION Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:57:36 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2009/07/feral/comment-page-1/#comment-975 admin Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:40:29 +0000 http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/?p=721#comment-975 Jim, how extraordinary that you should drop in on the day that I received my copy of "Living with the Truth" from Amazon (which I ordered the other day along with Rachel Green's "An Ungodly Child", the only common denominator being "writers who I vaguely know via the internet")! Anyway, many thanks for your comment - very much appreciated. I guess my problem is that I've only just started to take poetry seriously over the last few months and I have no idea of what's good and what isn't, although I do (ahem) know what I like. I also tend to be slightly suspicious of things that appear without much effort (which this poem certainly did). Then again, many of my favourite fiction pieces have been pretty instinctive and relatively effortless, so maybe it's just a question of confidence. Jim, how extraordinary that you should drop in on the day that I received my copy of “Living with the Truth” from Amazon (which I ordered the other day along with Rachel Green’s “An Ungodly Child”, the only common denominator being “writers who I vaguely know via the internet”)!

Anyway, many thanks for your comment – very much appreciated. I guess my problem is that I’ve only just started to take poetry seriously over the last few months and I have no idea of what’s good and what isn’t, although I do (ahem) know what I like. I also tend to be slightly suspicious of things that appear without much effort (which this poem certainly did). Then again, many of my favourite fiction pieces have been pretty instinctive and relatively effortless, so maybe it’s just a question of confidence.

]]> By: Jim Murdoch http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2009/07/feral/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Jim Murdoch Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:38:59 +0000 http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/?p=721#comment-974 I've been writing poetry for close to forty years now and I would pretend to understand poetry. It's why I write so many poems about poetry trying to come to terms with it. It used to be all about technique but if you keep peeling away there's always another smaller, leaner poem on the inside. As for your piece, it works perfectly well for me as a poem or simply as a piece of text. It makes sense, it's thought provoking and I like it. I’ve been writing poetry for close to forty years now and I would pretend to understand poetry. It’s why I write so many poems about poetry trying to come to terms with it. It used to be all about technique but if you keep peeling away there’s always another smaller, leaner poem on the inside.

As for your piece, it works perfectly well for me as a poem or simply as a piece of text. It makes sense, it’s thought provoking and I like it.

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