John Foulcher Notes from his interview. What poetry means to Foulcher Doesn’t regard himself as...

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John Foulcher Notes from his interview

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Page 1: John Foulcher Notes from his interview. What poetry means to Foulcher Doesn’t regard himself as poet Sees himself as someone who writes poetry in spare.

John Foulcher

Notes from his interview

Page 2: John Foulcher Notes from his interview. What poetry means to Foulcher Doesn’t regard himself as poet Sees himself as someone who writes poetry in spare.

What poetry means to Foulcher

Doesn’t regard himself as poet

Sees himself as someone who writes poetry in spare time

Poetry is one person’s experience being communicated to others

Makes his poetry simple and clear so it can be enjoyed

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Why did he start writing poetry?

He’s a teacher – lots of people write but you don’t realise how many

Didn’t like poetry at school

Teens like writing poetry because it helps them work things out

Wrote his first poem when 15, about unrequited love – it didn’t work!! But it helped him

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How do you go about writing poetry

Hard work

Two stages: the end – easy part; trying to find the poem in the words – hard part

Poet is like a mechanic – tinkers about with words like it’s an engine

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Is there a lot of wasted paper?

Les Murray (Australian poet) said there is a great waste paper basket

One poem works for every eight or nine that don’t

A lot of what is written is rubbish

Sometimes it just isn’t going to work – you’ve got to throw it away

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Did he like poetry at school?

NO!!!!! Preferred music – Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix

Even though music gets to more people, why not write music? You don’t always have to make points to be heard

Wants to talk about what he thinks, but it might not be what he set out to say

Inspired by Wilfred Owen in Year 10

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Wilfred Owen’s inspiration

The lines stayed with him about the horror of warListening / reading the poem made him see more than what he heard in Dylan songThe poetry was more real than Dylan’s songsOther inspirations TS Eliot and WH Auden - complex

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Australian poets

Compare well with American and English poets

Australians more experimental now – Les Murray in particular; also Robert Gray – “great imagist”

Poetry is a minority art

Poetry is rewarding; it lasts afterwards

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Concerns

Violence and the struggle to survive

Beauty and violence of nature

Lighter and darker side

Reveals a lot about himself in his poems- a risk of writing poetry

Conscious references to the Biblical

Writes about isolation unconsciously


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