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Margaret Smith
Poet & Musician
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Sean's music drills deep, going past Hopkins'
words on paper to the internal rhyme and reason of his poems, reaching
the heart of what Hopkins must have truly meant to say. And Sean
does this effortlessly, but hauntingly, with a troubadour's style.
He relies mostly on vocals, a guitar and a good sense of when to
pull back and say less with music, letting the poem words be what
they are. It's unnerving how well it works.
Listen to Harry Ploughman for a witty
take on the poem as a barn dance. Listen to Felix Randal for the
sound of someone who has just lost a younger friend to a long illness.
Listen to God's Grandeur and see
how well the poem Starlight Night
fits inside it, like a pearl inside its mother-of-pearl shell. This
is music that heals the heart.
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12 October 2005 |
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© Margaret Smith 2005 |
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