Yeah, about the PoeJazzi report…yeah, I’ve been meaning to write to you about that. It didn’t happen, because err, the dog ate it. Yeah that’s it. And then I went to retype it and my keyboad grew legs and ran away to Narnia with Tinkerbell and your left sock.
Well you know sometimes things don’t get written when they should and sometimes things get written which perhaps really shouldn’t. That one just didn’t get written. Ok, so I’m not the most efficient blogger, but I like to think I’m an honest one, so here’s what I’ve been doing.
Well yesterday was National Poetry Day and I decided I’d leave it to the millions of others in the UK to do the writing for once. I laughed heartily at some of the poems on Sky Sports, cringed at others and thought this was brilliant. I also thought hard about an article I read in the current issue of Poetry Review by Blake Morrison entitled How Poetry Can Make Things Happen which gave me enormous heart in writing. I usually take alot of heart from producing a piece, but ocassionally it helps to get the heart from another source to take into the process.
Anyway, ‘make things happen’ is what I’m all about (or what I want to be all about). In my school yearbook, I was voted 3rd ‘Most Likely To Become A Religious Leader’ and I took a kind of heart from that. Then when I was at University I was told by a lovely lass – a born again Christian – that I could do great work for God. Well, y’know that was fine and dandy, but I wasn’t sure God really needed my help being omnipotent an’ all and three years on, and now being an Atheist, I think well….I could do great work for people.
I hope I could…hmm I think I can, and making things happen through poetry and writing is something which appeals to me, even though I’m not sure exactly how I’ll go about that yet. Being one of the greatest writers to come out of this small corner of the world would be great, and so (as I’ve not heard back from Random House) I’ll be writing an email to an agent Musa recommended for ‘new writers’. I quite like the idea of being a new writer when the habit’s nearly as old as my ability to tie my laces, so we’ll see what happens.
Anyway, stop reading this, go forth and have fun.
[calls after you]…be nice if you popped bak at some point though…[/calls after you]
Because he’s very worth reading
Regular visitors to this site may have occasionally read me talking about Musa Okwonga, Author, Poet, member of Benin City and general gent. Well, now I’ll add Blogger to that list because he’s just started his very own (and about time!) here.
Part of the reason I put up this site was to (yes shamelessly promote myself, okay…) recommend things to look at, read, listen to, hear (not the same) and consider. Needless to say I think his blog will fill most of those criteria.