Thursday, March 17, 2016

burke: RIFFING ON COUANI

Anna Couani wrote:

not that there’s
a direct equation
between an artist’s product
and their own appearance


George MacBeth once said
at a Writers' Festival
that poets write poems
reflecting their own shape!

That accounts for
Les Murray's sprawling poems
and John Tranter's sonnets,
but what of Myron's haiku?

2 comments:

  1. The haiku are the shape of my heart...

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  2. I like close ups cos I used to be short sighted, before the eye operations, not that there's a direct equation between an artist's product and their own peering

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