Comments on: Lynn Roberts won the poetry collection prize @ Listowel Writers’ Week http://listowelwritersweekfringe.com/wordpress/?p=844 Blogging Listowel's Literary Scene Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:19:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://listowelwritersweekfringe.com/wordpress/?p=844&cpage=1#comment-822 admin Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:21:54 +0000 http://listowelwritersweekfringe.com/wordpress/?p=844#comment-822 Thank you v much MichaellaS. I'm delighted to get your feedback: it's being a pleasure. Thank you v much MichaellaS. I’m delighted to get your feedback: it’s being a pleasure.

]]> By: Paul O'Mahony (Omaniblog) http://listowelwritersweekfringe.com/wordpress/?p=844&cpage=1#comment-220 Paul O'Mahony (Omaniblog) Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:35:06 +0000 http://listowelwritersweekfringe.com/wordpress/?p=844#comment-220 Lynn Roberts, Could you have said a nicer thing? Boswell wow. First time anyone has every mentioned me in his breath. What they say about me behind my back I can only imagine; I think I'm too messy to appeal to a Johnson lover. Your point about the blog drawing attention to lesser known aspects of Listowel Writers' Week is spot on. We set out to do LWW in the round. For me, after two Writers' Weeks, the experience has drawn writers, writing, music, song together into a blur. It's Listowel Conversation Week for me. Like those minutes we sat beside each other in Lynch's Bakery, by accident. And I was able to say to your face what I'd been thinking while in your audience. Your accessibility, winner of the coveted prize for Best Collection of Poetry 2009, joining us around a table and lingering - this is the stuff of the good life. In that little bubble, all the disturbance of international crises and personal pain, melted in the sort of sublimation I associate with Brunhilde's immolation, the ultimately redeeming final chord of Wagner's Ring. Hyperbole, yes. Listowel brings out the Whitmanesque impulse in me. Which must be why I'm so chuffed to be helping make this blog happen. Lynn Roberts,
Could you have said a nicer thing? Boswell wow. First time anyone has every mentioned me in his breath. What they say about me behind my back I can only imagine; I think I’m too messy to appeal to a Johnson lover.

Your point about the blog drawing attention to lesser known aspects of Listowel Writers’ Week is spot on. We set out to do LWW in the round.

For me, after two Writers’ Weeks, the experience has drawn writers, writing, music, song together into a blur. It’s Listowel Conversation Week for me. Like those minutes we sat beside each other in Lynch’s Bakery, by accident. And I was able to say to your face what I’d been thinking while in your audience.

Your accessibility, winner of the coveted prize for Best Collection of Poetry 2009, joining us around a table and lingering – this is the stuff of the good life. In that little bubble, all the disturbance of international crises and personal pain, melted in the sort of sublimation I associate with Brunhilde’s immolation, the ultimately redeeming final chord of Wagner’s Ring.

Hyperbole, yes. Listowel brings out the Whitmanesque impulse in me. Which must be why I’m so chuffed to be helping make this blog happen.

]]> By: Paul O'Mahony (Omaniblog) http://listowelwritersweekfringe.com/wordpress/?p=844&cpage=1#comment-158 Paul O'Mahony (Omaniblog) Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:05:42 +0000 http://listowelwritersweekfringe.com/wordpress/?p=844#comment-158 I've added hyperlinks, because this poem is rich in concrete & evocative words. Hyperlinking Lynn produced all sorts of interesting information about a very talented&generous person. I wonder if Lynn Roberts will approve. If she doesn't, I'll remove them. What do you think? Do hyperlinks help you, or distract? I’ve added hyperlinks, because this poem is rich in concrete & evocative words.
Hyperlinking Lynn produced all sorts of interesting information about a very talented&generous person.

I wonder if Lynn Roberts will approve. If she doesn’t, I’ll remove them.

What do you think? Do hyperlinks help you, or distract?

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