Comments on: What Do Poetry and Advertising Having in Common? Paul Feldwick Provokes http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/what-do-poetry-and-advertising-having-in-common-paul-feldwick-provokes/ coaching creative professionals Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:21:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark McGuinness http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/what-do-poetry-and-advertising-having-in-common-paul-feldwick-provokes/#comment-39549 Mark McGuinness Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:39:23 +0000 http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/what-do-poetry-and-advertising-having-in-common-paul-feldwick-provokes/#comment-39549 Hi Matt, ha ha yes open mic is a great way of stripping away poetic mystification! And I agre there's no point in technical virtuosity for its own sake, that's the kind of dead-end I'm talking about trying to avoid. Ted Hughes said the most important thing was for a poem to have a 'good heart' - meaning that the various elements were harmonised and resonating with each other, not just 'shuffling words' as you so aptly put it. Hi Matt, ha ha yes open mic is a great way of stripping away poetic mystification!

And I agre there’s no point in technical virtuosity for its own sake, that’s the kind of dead-end I’m talking about trying to avoid. Ted Hughes said the most important thing was for a poem to have a ‘good heart’ - meaning that the various elements were harmonised and resonating with each other, not just ’shuffling words’ as you so aptly put it.

]]> By: Matt Moore http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/what-do-poetry-and-advertising-having-in-common-paul-feldwick-provokes/#comment-39277 Matt Moore Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:11:29 +0000 http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/what-do-poetry-and-advertising-having-in-common-paul-feldwick-provokes/#comment-39277 Hullo Mark. Creativity does indeed get mystified. My recent poetry-writing (and performing on Sydney's Open Mic circuit) has been a fascinating & enjoyable experience. And contrasts strongly with my current job writing corporate communications (and made it bearable for a while). A poem is never just one idea - it's a whole bunch of them stuck together, reworked, polished, etc. But it also needs an emotional core. I have encountered technically proficient poets who have left me cold - they just seem to be shuffling words sometimes. My goal as a poet & performer has been to tell people what they already know in a way they have never thought of before. I will go off & check out some of your poems... Hullo Mark. Creativity does indeed get mystified. My recent poetry-writing (and performing on Sydney’s Open Mic circuit) has been a fascinating & enjoyable experience. And contrasts strongly with my current job writing corporate communications (and made it bearable for a while).

A poem is never just one idea - it’s a whole bunch of them stuck together, reworked, polished, etc. But it also needs an emotional core. I have encountered technically proficient poets who have left me cold - they just seem to be shuffling words sometimes.

My goal as a poet & performer has been to tell people what they already know in a way they have never thought of before. I will go off & check out some of your poems…

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