tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post752026124258318389..comments2009-08-06T01:52:55.905-07:00Amanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-79281296632065107702009-08-06T01:52:55.905-07:002009-08-06T01:52:55.905-07:00it is a symphony not just a piece of music, all words co-ordinate and dance with each other-beautiful...ken/down underken tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-64520901473568353982009-07-15T11:38:39.889-07:002009-07-15T11:38:39.889-07:00This is a beautiful, well wrought poem, amanda j, major admiration from me to you...<br />Ray Sharp<br />raysharp.wordpress.comRay Sharphttp://raysharp.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-7271828518094655982009-06-09T18:21:10.570-07:002009-06-09T18:21:10.570-07:00Gorgeousness. I love the way the words tumble...and settle<br /><br />Oh, and these lines:<br />&quot;you don&#39;t remember your own name<br />until you hear it&quot;vanessahttp://vanessapage.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-30964248415223275032009-04-18T15:54:00.000-07:002009-04-18T15:54:00.000-07:00Nice work of art! Bravo!Khoahttp://khoadangluu.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-38666455936272592012009-03-01T20:51:00.000-08:002009-03-01T20:51:00.000-08:00Denis, Thank you so much for such an engaged and sensitive reading of the poem.<BR/>Comments like yours are what makes blogging my poetry worthwhile.. <BR/>warmly<BR/>AmandaAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-58597323570479502792009-03-01T20:47:00.000-08:002009-03-01T20:47:00.000-08:00Hello Old Literate Man,<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thankyou for your compliments..<BR/><BR/>I'd like to believe I'm quite approachable :)<BR/><BR/>It's strange, I was talking about that painting only recently. <BR/>I actually have no slides of it at all. So if you'd like to introduce yourself sometime, I'd love to visit it.<BR/><BR/>see you at Gino's sometime(?)<BR/>Also you can email me at amanda@littleglasspen.com<BR/><BR/>cheers<BR/>AmandaAmanda Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-70955690443576109532009-02-22T20:33:00.000-08:002009-02-22T20:33:00.000-08:00Hello Amanda,<BR/><BR/>I must second the previous comments.<BR/><BR/>You don't know me although we have many mutual friends and I have seen you around Fremantle for years. I also own a painting of yours "The Quickening" from 1999. <BR/><BR/>I attemptd to speak to you at Saturday's concert at the Fremantle Arts Centre, however it seems you have many friends and admirers queuing to bask in your vibrant warmth. It is a rare grace you hold.<BR/><BR/>You have a strong and distinctive voice Amanda. I have been reading your posts for over a year now, as a subscriber here and at myspace. <BR/><BR/>You are a brilliant writer. I am wondering why you have not been posting your poems as regularly lately. <BR/><BR/>I was recently speaking with Stephen McMahon who showed me a copy of a small, exquisitely illustrated book of your poems from some years ago. Are you ever going to print them again? <BR/><BR/>Many questions, if not answered here and now I will ask you in person one day over those short macs you seem so fond of.<BR/><BR/>in great admiration,<BR/>An Old Literate ManAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-60603977808448777932009-02-22T08:53:00.000-08:002009-02-22T08:53:00.000-08:00Rich and compelling.<BR/>Tinkerty-tonk!mantecanauthttp://mantecanaut.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-31082720549754587202009-02-17T00:13:00.000-08:002009-02-17T00:13:00.000-08:00i come back to this again<BR/><BR/>and again<BR/><BR/>and againbruce_dorlovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006724431838559504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-25535592110979422992009-02-14T09:58:00.000-08:002009-02-14T09:58:00.000-08:00This is beautifully composed. The way that it works a poem (song) cycle is great. there is a slight alteration in each section that shifts the flow of the narrative and the sound. in the first section there is dominance of soft sounds (the ooh’) and in the next a hard ‘e’ (as in ‘etch’).<BR/><BR/>The way that this plays as a shift in mood and maintaining the overall flow of the poem cycle works great.<BR/><BR/>The language itself is superb. It puts me in mind of Welisch without the ‘academia’. the warmth of the poem shines through well: ‘rock the squalling flesh’; ‘as skin covets its own/articulation’; etc. The poem, overall, has a ‘feminine’ feel to it yet the eroticism of it is quite universal.<BR/><BR/>It is great to come across poetry that is written with such care and treats the reader as intelligent: capable of going beyond the everyday and entering a world of another experience.Denis Joseph O'Driscollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726802589006861739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-12225406101568948642009-02-10T07:25:00.000-08:002009-02-10T07:25:00.000-08:00This poetry is soft, slow and makes me remember for a while some passages from Emily, my Emily, our Emily Dickinson.<BR/><BR/>Thanks AmandaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-50437808733115072152009-02-05T20:02:00.000-08:002009-02-05T20:02:00.000-08:00"The windows of hotels sing back<BR/>at the motors of aeroplanes"<BR/><BR/><BR/>I love that line. Beautiful poetry.Gabriel Gadflyhttp://gabrielgadfly.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-71516180469127386752009-01-19T14:47:00.000-08:002009-01-19T14:47:00.000-08:00There is so much music in this poem Amanda,<BR/><BR/>'... silence only found under the feet of a traveller at rest'<BR/><BR/>'soft annunciations breathed into frontiers of hard flesh'<BR/><BR/>'the devout gushing of the mouth'<BR/><BR/><BR/>and as such, deserves to be on high rotation.<BR/><BR/>GGraham Nunnhttp://grahamnunn.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555114521624356230.post-9080580182487270952009-01-19T05:17:00.000-08:002009-01-19T05:17:00.000-08:00very strong work indeed, aJoy. richly repays many readings.bruce_dorlovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01006724431838559504noreply@blogger.com