Down to the corner store and right back up the stairs

[sovay]

I remain unsuccessful in my hunt for Orcadian poetry; even the Grolier Poetry Book Shop came up empty-handed. I am going to have to resort to libraries. On the silver lining, my poem "A Promise from the Sea" (written for seajules) has been accepted by Goblin Fruit, my poem "Evighed" has been bumped up from issue 16 of Electric Velocipede to issue 14, which will come out at Wiscon, and Kendall Evans sent me a copy of his verse drama In Deepspace Shadows, for which I provided a blurb. (The short version: it's beautiful. Who was the last major dramatist who wrote in blank verse, Christopher Fry? We need more of this stuff.) And this morning I saw my dear friend who does not have a livejournal, and shortly I will be seeing Atonement with ericmvan and his friend Larry, and last night I baked banana bread. This weekend, Copenhagen at the ART. It could always (Tell them move in!) be worse.

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Will the bookshop of The Orcadian ship?

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

On the silver lining, my poem "A Promise from the Sea" (written for seajules) has been accepted by Goblin Fruit, my poem "Evighed" has been bumped up from issue 16 of Electric Velocipede to issue 14, which will come out at Wiscon

That is, without a doubt, a hell of a silver lining!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I saw The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp -- in fact I saw it three times in the week I had the DVD out of the library. Thank you so much for recommending it. It's quite outstanding and one of the best films I've ever seen.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally, my sister-in-law is currently working on staging her verse drama on Alexander the Great. Tell your friends! (Er, if they live in Edinburgh)

[ewein2412]

are you looking for anything in specific (orcadian poetry-wise, I mean)? I have got a few volumes and could share.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I have a stack of books out from the library for you--just say when you can collect them.

Oh, and by the way, the editors of the collected poetry write that they've restored Brown's redacted poems to their original state. No variora, though.

Nine

[gwynnega]

Great news! Are you going to Wiscon?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

"Orcadian" is such a great place-name adjective. Like "Cantabridgian."

I see someone found you a way to get some Orcadian poetry too--yay!

And congratulations on the sales. I do love that Goblin Fruit, and it's fun to see your work there--and in other places too.

mmm, banana bread.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your unsucess in finding Orcadian poetry, but glad of the other more pleasant things.

I hope you enjoy the film today and the play this weekend.

Verse Drama

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Sad to say that I think the reason dramatists don't write in verse anymore is that no one is willing to produce it, and most often even to read it (too many people trying it badly make readers and literary managers unwilling). And for most dramatists, a play not worth producing is just a play not worth writing, because plays are meant to be seen first and read secondly.

Discussing the death of verse drama typically leads to such disturbing and disturbed reactions in playwrights ("It's JUST NOT DONE THAT WAY ANY MOAR!11111111111111111111eleventyone") that I've just given up broaching the topic anymore. It's really sad, and one of the biggest reasons I quit writing for the theatre indefinitely.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Sean O'Brien has written several verse plays - for the Royal Shakespeare Company, inter alia - and I don't believe he's stopped, tho' if you asked him where the next one is he just might growl at you. He's very growly.