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Shane's avatar

I'm normally allergic to poetry but that one pulled me in and made me glad.

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Phillip Carter's avatar

Thanks mate. Yeah I have gotten compliments like this sporadically over the years and it's nice, means I've got my own poet's voice that I didn't lose after graduating!

A good sign for when the book eeeeeeeeventually comes out.

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Shane's avatar

For me, good prose skirts the edge of poetry and always has a degree of awareness about its own rhythm and mouth feel (mind feel? assuming people aren't reading a novel out loud to themselves).

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Phillip Carter's avatar

I definitely agree, and I'd go further and say that unfortunately this art isn't known or appreciated by the wider industry. I've read trad books which had no real style to them, it was just a list of stuff happening to characters.

I used to worry, being a poet comedian author, that I was too confusing for people. Comments like yours help remove that existential anxiety. Thanks again bro!

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jennifer woodworth's avatar

Oh Philip this and the end are fickend gorgeous!

“the ideas we had of the world, washed away”

Thanks man. <3.

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jennifer woodworth's avatar

Entropy. Mathematicians and physicists are in your hands Philip!!!

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Phillip Carter's avatar

Funny you should say that, physicists do seem to enjoy my poems!

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jennifer woodworth's avatar

Of course they do my friend! :)

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Nicola Rossi's avatar

Love this.

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Phillip Carter's avatar

Thanks Nicola!

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