Fantastic!

Not another fucken poetry blog!

This is a companion blog to my other blog, mrgiles. i like that one. it's kinda inoffensive and unassuming, and i'd love to keep it that way. this is going to be more mr hyde - as self serving and narcissistic as so many blogs are. it will discuss poetry, and as all good (?) blogs, will be rambling and poorly annotated. be warned; sometimes i like using words like "discourse" and "power structure". i also find excrement an infinite source of hilarity.

so why start another damn blog about poetry? well, i don't really expect too many people to read it, so i hope it's not too destructive to the blogosphere's ecology. it's more the idea of an internet audience which will drive this space - hopefully this will give a different focus to my ramblings - it's a sort of easy medium between my notebook scrawlings and the rigidity of academic papers. i want to explore what poetry can and does mean to me, what i think it can do, and how it works. this sounds terribly like clockwork orange functionalism, but i hope i don't murder to dissect too much. the main focus (i believe) will be australian and korean poetry that has been written since the start of last century, but i'm sure there will be lots of little byronic tangents.

well anyways, here goes...