{"id":13497,"date":"2015-07-27T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:35:28","slug":"lee-harwood-1939-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/lee-harwood-1939-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Harwood (1939-2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sad to see an old friend and a poet I admired very much leave our world. You should check out his Collected Poems<\/a><\/em>\u00a0published by Shearsman Books in 2004.\u00a0Download a PDF sampler from this book\u00a0here<\/a>. Below,\u00a0a poem from the early 70s:<\/p>\n

Five postcards to Alban Berg<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1
\nwaves break over the headland
\nthe pain of closeness\u00a0 <\/span>\/ “to a lover”
\nThe mountains
\nwalk in the mountains
\nThe lightness of touch
\n<\/span>clear air<\/span><\/p>\n

2
\nthe blue sky
\n<\/span>(pan to) spring ploughing
\nand cattle grazing on the (green) slopes
\n<\/span>the wild flowers abundant and\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>many coloured
\n<\/span>Can you see now? \u00a0 <\/span>can I… ?
\nMany miles away…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Here<\/p>\n

3
\nThe dark night\u00a0 <\/span>\/ “close to your lover”
\nthe rain and wind outside<\/p>\n

4
\nin the evenings as the sun sets
\n<\/span>red skies and the swimming<\/p>\n

the insult of an image
\n<\/span>when it’s only what’s here before you<\/span><\/p>\n

5
\nthe skies clear\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>(blue)
\n<\/span>midday \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>the moon still there
\nsheep deep in the flowers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>daisies and poppies
\nOff beyond the distance “you”
\n<\/span>Minutes in the day when (maybe) the pictures cross
\n<\/span>and focus
\n<\/span>The island \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>firm
\nthe mountains up into the sky\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>“beyond”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sad to see an old friend and a poet I admired very much leave our world. You should check out his Collected Poems\u00a0published by Shearsman Books in 2004.\u00a0Download a PDF sampler from this book\u00a0here....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1687],"class_list":["post-13497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-lee-harwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}