First: is it always nice for poets to connect? Surely it depends on the poets. And a posture of splendid isolation is sometimes absolutely necessary. Particularly in as dark an age as ours is, where 'moral monstrousness is all the rage' to quote myself. How tired one gets of sex and drugs and rock'n'roll!
Second: are things getting better? There are one or two straws in the wind, but so far they don't seem to have got as far as poetry. And surely poetry should precede rather than follow.
Third: one must be very careful of being too descriptive. As of being too much anything. Balance is all important. (Even a balance between balance and imbalance!) (How wonderful it is to teether sometimes! And so reveal just how difficult it all is.) Word-painting and word-music are not poetry. Only wisdom and insight are. And music and description should always play a purely subservient role. Otherwise one has allowed oneself to be seduced from the strait and narrow.
As for the esoteric and occult and arcane, perhaps the less said the better. I like to confuse people. And so that must necessarily appear in my own work. Less pleasant is when I only succeed in confusing myself.
A number of points.
First: is it always nice for poets to connect? Surely it depends on the poets. And a posture of splendid isolation is sometimes absolutely necessary. Particularly in as dark an age as ours is, where 'moral monstrousness is all the rage' to quote myself. How tired one gets of sex and drugs and rock'n'roll!
Second: are things getting better? There are one or two straws in the wind, but so far they don't seem to have got as far as poetry. And surely poetry should precede rather than follow.
Third: one must be very careful of being too descriptive. As of being too much anything. Balance is all important. (Even a balance between balance and imbalance!) (How wonderful it is to teether sometimes! And so reveal just how difficult it all is.) Word-painting and word-music are not poetry. Only wisdom and insight are. And music and description should always play a purely subservient role. Otherwise one has allowed oneself to be seduced from the strait and narrow.
As for the esoteric and occult and arcane, perhaps the less said the better. I like to confuse people. And so that must necessarily appear in my own work. Less pleasant is when I only succeed in confusing myself.