{"id":288,"date":"2015-06-04T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writehanded.org\/poetry\/?p=288"},"modified":"2015-06-04T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T10:00:43","slug":"progress-jane-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/2015\/06\/04\/progress-jane-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress – Jane Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Arthur’s Progress<\/em> is published in the latest issue of Sport magazine<\/a>, which I am currently working my way through.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a poem\u00a0best read aloud, with a kind of ever-increasing breathless pitch, which slows. right. down. on the last two lines.<\/p>\n

Jane is currently studying for an MA at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington. She has a dog and enviable writer’s empathy. She once posted\u00a0me a yoga mat. The card that came with it said Namaste<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been reading Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She says: “Think of how many times you have opened a book, read one<\/em> line, and said, “Yes!” and thought “I want to give people that feeling too, of connection, communion.”<\/p>\n

I hope that’s what Jane intended, because that’s what happened to me with all the lines<\/em>. A wonderful, painful communion of anxiety, paranoia, and the deepseated pleasure that I only experience when I read really, really good writing.<\/p>\n

It’s the realness here that makes it work. The sociopathic sparrows, the anecdotes, the adjectives – the vulnerability.<\/p>\n

Anne Lamott basically says unless you’re going to tell the truth in your writing, go home. It’s possibly the hardest challenge for any writer, and the least we can do.<\/p>\n

Thank you for\u00a0not going home, Jane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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