Rob

Hey eveyone, Rob here just saying a few words about myself. I have recently joined The New Creative, am looking forward to reading, writing and viewing other peoples work. My main interests lie in the fields of Irish literarure, Gaelic poetry and drama.

'The poet writes always of his personal life, in his finest work out of it's tragedy, whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table.' (W B Yeats)

'What we have to do is to bring poetry into the world in which the audience lives and to which it returns when it leaves the theatre; not to transport the audience into some imaginary world totally unlike their own, an unreal world in which poetry can be spoken. What I should hope might be achieved, by a generation of dramatists having the benefit of our experience, is that the audience should find, at the moment of awareness that it is hearing poetry, that it is saying to itself: "I could talk in poetry too!" Then we should not be transported into an artificial world; on the contrary, out own sordid, dreary, daily world would be suddenly illuminated and transfigured.'(T. S. Elliot- Poetry and Drama, 1951)