Tangled Twine - Couverture souple

Camillo, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1863551840 ISBN 13 : 9781863551847

Editeur : David Lovell Publishing Pty Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

To find the single thread in a tangled maze of string takes patience, focus and persistence. The thread recovered can be woven into something useful or artistic. Our minds are tangled with a maze of experiences, observations, feelings and ideas. A moment of inspiration drops into that maze and it takes the same skills used on the string to find the simple, whole thread that becomes art.

'We are all exposed to inspirational moments that pounce on us, apparently from nowhere, ' says John Camillo. 'It is possible that we all have the initial flash of an idea or picture or tune. The thing is that it takes concentrated effort to embody the magic of a moment into a finished, communicative product. There is truth in the old saying that good ideas are twopence a ton. Most of them are not grabbed, moulded and polished into works of greatness.'

Here is a collection of poems written between 2008 and 2016. They are the author's attempt at catching some of those moments when bright things flash into his mind. They deal with the everyday - his in particular, but very often ours as well. We journey with him through important times in his life and share his emotions and reflections of those times.

John Camillo has gathered his observations and done the work of moulding and polishing, and then presented them to us, his readers: 'I offer them to you for what you might see.'

He expands this invitation to us:

'What do you notice on your way to the train station each morning, or creeping along the tolled freeways in your car, or sitting at the kitchen table amidst the noise of a family dinner, or watching a young child hurtling around the place chasing the hapless family pet dog or cat ... These poems represent some of the things that have flashed the author's mind over the last little time. Enjoy, reflect, respond.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

It has been said that when you stick your head up, it will get a good kicking. Maybe that is why John Camillo waited so long before sneaking into print in the most unobtrusive way, no fanfare, no big signing or PR program. John's theatre for nearly forty years was the classroom, mostly as a teacher of English. He had moved into TAFE when that subject metamorphosed into Communication Skills. Writing was always an interest, but a painful one because he hated writing cramp. The computer changed all that for him and for his students. The last ten years of that career were special because his students finally had the tools with which they could learn to love writing. The computer arrived in 1984 at Dandenong TAFE where he worked and he asked his students to use word processing to prepare their papers around a program of activities that made traditional classroom formats obsolete. Their work astounded him. And so, now, he writes. This anthology is the first of his observations to leak into the public domain, and though it will not make his publisher wealthy the author assures him that it will be followed by more. Anyway, the point of it all is something other than that.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David Lovell Publishing Pty Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1863551840
• ISBN 13: 9781863551847
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 114
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible