Clive James reflects on the music businessLately,I am seldom impressed by the kind of poetry that is just prose arranged vertically. I spent too much time learning how to arrange prose horizontally. But any poet who still writes in rhymes and stanzas is fighting to join a minority. The freedom just to bung it down has won, and few poets now waste any effort on their technique. They might be upright.
If they were musicians, and however,they would clearly be wrong. As my supply of energy runs low, I acquire still been glad to collaborate with Pete Atkin on another album of our songs, or The Colours Of The Night. As always,I acquire been chastened by the discipline of the musicians. To match it, I acquire had to shape my phrases with care. Though the results won’t form anyone a fortune, and I lift my pay in pride.
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Source: theguardian.com