Recent content by Robbie O'Malley

"always the same...running towards nothing...again and again and again and again..." what a tune!

[This video is unavailable.] Used to listen to this with me mate off our faces --good times they were...

Rayson, you give me the shivers.. "a broken man" -- are you high mate? I was just thinking, if Bukowski grew up outside of dickhead american culture he probably would have been normal and not so depressed. But he grew up in the most superficial place on the planet, poor bastard.

Fair enough, Rayson :wb: This a really well made website though, it has to be said. Fair play to the mods and that.

No, bospress, I never said I don't care at all for his writing (i wouldn't have joined this website if I didn't and I wouldn't have read most of his writing). If you read my earlier post you will see. Danielle Steele? The fact that u said that just negates any intentions you might of had for...

I think a lot of people here are one eyed and lost in the holy forest of Bukowski. In the standing of 20th century writers, I don't think he's in the top 100. To say he is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century is a nonsense. Anyone's who's well read will say this. I am saying he is a...

MJP -- Just noticed your little wikipedia link there. I'm a sheet metal worker and I left school when I was 16. I thought we ere all having a pleasant discourse.It's a bit puerile and sad now to be honest. That's what fascists do: when they don't agree with something they put a label on it...

MJP -- I am very sure of my last statement, it's a rhetorical question. A gelding by definition is limp btw. David -- You are clearing your throat a bit now on this point. I am talking about what is, u are speculating on what ought to be. Let's keep it at what is (for the time being...

Well how good they are is subjective. Fact is, though, he is not recognized by the literary establishment, he is not taught in universities, and his work is not generally in poetry anthologies. Why not? Your use of inverted commas is suggesting some undercurrent of argument. I merely said he is...

Erik, I never read the whole thing. I had a nibble on it alright. I did read Paradise Lost though, many times. Now there's a poem... Bukowski is a poet, not in the strictest sense of the word though. As you know he was never accepted by the academia, not that it rankled him too much. I used to...

Ah come on now :P It's a poem, of course.

Thanks hoochmonkey9, but i'm not the first one to say that...by buk's own admission, he writes poetry in free verse, which is effectively prose writing as it eschews metre and other aspects of prosody. This is why you won't find him in the same canon as Pound, Thomas, Yeats, etc. And that's not...

Yes Erik, but his poetry is not distinguishable from his prose. He has a poets sense for prose you might say...I've read most of his poetry btw.

His poetry I think is his prose in pithy form. I read a lot of it a long time ago. He wrote some beautiful stuff. It is difficult to compare him because he is so unconventional. One poem I still remember is "a spark"....at the end, something like -- "it only takes a spark to light up a forest"....