Rob Ayling writes: It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"
Why not indeed!!"
POETS AS MOVIE STARS
Byron cut his way through bedrooms and
scandals
long before mass Medea.Dylan Thomas drank
his way
to fame and early death.Bukowski lived to
ripe age
despite his childhood-three movies spawned
of him/
two of them worthy of his works.Keats has
Jane Campion as champion.
while Kerouac awaits release from Sofia
Coppola.
Live as art?Rueben,Rueben makes Tom Conti
both suicidal and poetic.Sean Connery in a
black and white biopic
David Bowie in THE MAN WHO FELL TO
EARTH
William Burroughs in Laurie Anderson's HOME
OF THE BRAVE
Marinetti poetry movies bring the visual
into hypertext
Stevie Smith becomes STEVIE,Sylvia Plath
SYLVIA
Lives of poets all seem so (un)pecuniary and
peculiar
Posthumous fame follows only if the movie
sells
No royalties for poets
widows,mistresses,children telling tales
to newspapers more amused by death than any
line of poem.
The devil is in the
details-lurid,horror-struck-following the path of stars
or only falling ones?
'It's a horrible kind of theft': Artist daughter of Sylvia Plath reveals agony of seeing her father Ted Hughes punished by 'outsiders' for his wife's suicide in 1963
- Frieda Hughes, 55, has given her first TV interview with the BBC
- Says she is 'appalled' that her father was blamed for Plath's death
- Sylvia Plath killed herself in 1963, while her children slept in another room
Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath, has broken
her 53-year silence to speak about the legacy of her mother's suicide in her
first television interview.
In the interview with the BBC, the artist whose father
Ted Hughes had left his wife for another woman when she killed herself has
expressed with people who she claims have used her mother's death to help their
cause.
The poet and painter, 55, accused the loyalty of
Plath's fierce fans towards her mother that saw Frieda's father blamed for her
death in 1963 as 'an abuse' in the documentary.
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Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath
and Ted Hughes, has given her first TV interview to the BBC where she discusses
her contempt for feminists who used her mother's suicide to fit a
purpose
Frieda was just two when her mother left her and her
younger brother Nicholas upstairs as she ended her life by placing her head in
the their oven on February 11, 1963, at their flat on Fitzroy Road, Primrose
Hill.
The poet, famous for her novel The Bell Jar and such
powerful poems as Daddy, Morning Song, Words and Lady Lazarus, had separated
from her husband after discovering his affair with Assia Wevill.
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