Poetic justice

[christophe]

Dear message board friends,

Compared to the sustained, continuous narrative of film, comics is a sequence of discrete moments. I think for a comic to be succesful great care must be taken over each moment, each panel, just as each line in a poem is struggled for and carefully considered. Therefore, I think comics is poetry to film's prose.

So this made me think, what poets do other comic readers like?

I give three:

- Omar Khayyam
- Edmond Rostand (French author of Cyrano de Bergerac)
- Shane MacGowan


amicalement,
C.

[paulvonscott]

I'm a Pam Ayres fan myself

[satchmo]

Christophe,
I love Allen Ginsberg,my sister got me into him,the beatnik hussy.you should see his FBI file,its online in a few places..

[Smiley]

There once was a man from Nantucket...

[Jayzus B. Christ]

Ogden Nash, Joyce (no Finnigans Wake-style gobbledygook in his poetry), and that bloke who wrote New Menin Gate what I did at school. Also Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll.

[El Spurioso]

There are veeeeery few poets whose work I can read without getting all disgusted by the sheer pretensiousness of it all, but I have a soft spot for one or two of WBYeats' bits and bobs, and of course the aforementioned Lewis Caroll.  "'Twas brillig and the blah blah blah..."

[Trout]

Here's a bit of controversy.

No poet in the history of rhyming stuff will ever be able to compete with the great:

dum, dum, dum!

--- William Topaz McGonagall!

Dundee's greatest poet, he vilified by all and sundry - who believed (and continue to believe) he was crap, simply because of his obsession with rhyming every line, whether they would scan/ make sense or not.

Example:

"For the stronger we our houses do build
"The less chance we stand of being killed."

Genius!

I strongly urge all of you to run net searches on him and find out all you can.

- Dundonian Troutman

[Smiley]

...who ran and stepped into a bucket...

[Wood]

Dylan Thomas pisses on them all, from his place in a very Welsh Heaven.

[2000AD Online]

Still waiting for the collected works of Anon.

[Something Fishy]

I'd agree with that.  Bloomin great.

I also like the works of a chap you've probably never heard of called Alan M Kent.

[Wils]

I've always liked e.e. cummings for some bizarre reason, and Poe (*not* the teletubbie)who wrote some pretty dark f**ked-up stuff.

Wils

[Buddy]

I must go down to the sea again,
To the lonly sea and the sky,
I left my shoes and socks there,
I wonder of there dry?

To quote the Goons....
it's the only poem I can remember when really pissed!!!!!

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[Buddy]

Also anything by Ivor Cutler.

A true Legend.

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[Devons Daddy]

modern poetry tends to be a bit off for me. truly you want deep stuff with real soul try the lyricsof bernie taupin. read his stuff and strip out the music in your head.
 stunning stuff. take a look at any of his older works from the 70s first, the guy is a gifted wordsmith. references which are obscure and yet deep.
i wish to give you a small island surrounded by the sea all i have is a tear and hand ful of sand,
the cry man to his wife who has lost his job and cannot find another.
or every man in his time is cane
the feeling of lonelyness. if you can find a better man of words i woudl be impressed.
my thoughts only of course. not really into these wannabes that never wil be sorts. pam has a lot to answer for if you ask me.