Year of Poetry Update - Week 23
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My confidence built on last week and despite having a full on work week with reports and such, I had two great writing days that left me with 2 fully drafted poems.
My overall time was up this week, courtesy I think, of hacking my writing brain and working out how to alter my schedule to cope with fatigue.
So by my reckoning its taken me 5 or so weeks to produce something I am considering sending out. Personally I am just happy I have something.
The Writing
I honestly would have spent more time writing today if I hadn't been called upon to cut and grind metal for garden art and then sell it. I was having such a successful week that I really didn't want to be taken away from the desk.
I honestly would have spent more time writing today if I hadn't been called upon to cut and grind metal for garden art and then sell it. I was having such a successful week that I really didn't want to be taken away from the desk.
I managed to produce two really good first drafts on last Sunday and Monday respectively, when I racked up 4 hours of solid poetry writing. I have been rotating through Writing, Study and Close Reading as and when time permits, with an emphasis of course, on the writing. I was finding though, that I tended to let the Close Reading drop in favour of Study. I think this had a negative impact on motivation and inspiration and having no particular text to study this week pushed hard and did a couple of close readings of Jane Clarke's poems. It seemed to help.
The Study
I only did about three quarters of an hour, finishing off Glyn Maxwell's On Poetry . I found the final chapters ( on poets writing plays) less helpful in my current stage of devlopment. But am glad that I purchsed the book. I found Maxwell to have an interesting perspective especially for folk who like form.
Close Reading
I only did about three quarters of an hour, finishing off Glyn Maxwell's On Poetry . I found the final chapters ( on poets writing plays) less helpful in my current stage of devlopment. But am glad that I purchsed the book. I found Maxwell to have an interesting perspective especially for folk who like form.
Close Reading
I finished Irish poet, Jane Clarke's, Every Life, and The Suck (from the collection mentioned here) and made a start on a Helen Dunmore poem.
For the Statbadgers:
Total time: 08:30(286:09) hrs
poem writing = 5.30 (121:03) hrs
close reading = 1:30(58:42) hrs
technique/theory 0:48(70:49) hrs
reflection = 0:45 (23:16) hrs
Poetry written:
2 (23) poems completed
13 poems in draft
1 poem abandoned
1 poem facing execution at dawn
Poems Submitted:
0(13 in total) poems
Poems Published:
0(5) poem
Live Performances:
0(2)
Rejections:
0(7) poems
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