The arts are not cumulative. Just when we feel to have produced the perfect poem or painting or installation, whoosh, the arts head off in a different direction.
Here are some traditional guidelines to criticism: Be interesting; make a point, be moral; expand the mind; no prejudice or lampoons; be serious and sincere; help the reader to change for the better; write simply; don’t be obscure; make it pleasent reading; have new ideas; help people to think; help the reader to make the right choices in their lives.
Congratulations to Mary Kille and Vi Woodhouse for jointly winning first prize, and the money, in the Burnie Poetry Slam; Peter Stratford came second and Loretta Gaul third. They go on now to better things and maybe to Sydney at the Opera House where the prize is huge.
Don’t forget Burnie Shines, Europa Poets’ Gold Pot which is a glass goblet filled with the gold coins of participants. It is to be held on Friday, October 30, at 5.30 pm at the Burnie Library. Vi has organised the musical entertainment and there will be a little supper.
My tulips have turned out huge; their colours are yellow, red and mauve. The vegetable seeds in their toilet roll centres in potting soil inside the icecream container have dared to show their little green sprouts tentatively and eventually will be planted into the garden. I’ll have to cut the grass again because it won’t stop growing.
We had a blogger, blogspot site that showed the month’s poems. Now I can’t find it. I’ll have to ask my four-year-old nephew. He’ll fix it. It’s hard in old age to do what the young ones do with their Facebook and blogs and websites, and what-not so easily.
At the library, when Elaine Harris broadcast on Harry Potter, a little boy came along and recited the whole first chapter of the latest book. I won’t tell you how much I could remember.
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