Michael Donaghy filmed interview and tribute
Didn't know about this interview with Michael, who was pretty universally recognized as 'Il miglior fabbro':
MD '...but when you write a letter to someone or a love poem to someone, to someone in particular or send a telegram, you know who you are talking to. But in poetry as a literature, printed form, you have really no idea who your audience is. What you are doing is – you have to set up a fiction, a working fiction – that is your audience, and what they are, for me, my ideal reader has read all the books I have read, but doesn’t necessarily know all the people I know...'
Great tribute and links here. I haven't got the filmed stuff to work yet, but the transcript is great.
MD '...but when you write a letter to someone or a love poem to someone, to someone in particular or send a telegram, you know who you are talking to. But in poetry as a literature, printed form, you have really no idea who your audience is. What you are doing is – you have to set up a fiction, a working fiction – that is your audience, and what they are, for me, my ideal reader has read all the books I have read, but doesn’t necessarily know all the people I know...'
Great tribute and links here. I haven't got the filmed stuff to work yet, but the transcript is great.
posted by Edward Barker at 10:11 AM
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