tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264914780516321436.post640230377666385262..comments2023-10-21T21:54:39.121+13:00Comments on Tim Jones: Books in the Trees: Down in the Flood (1): Going UnderTim Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264914780516321436.post-72317423885780260692009-06-29T19:58:43.285+12:002009-06-29T19:58:43.285+12:00I don't think it's at all unusual for a wr...I don't think it's at all unusual for a writer to keep returning to certain themes, particularly if there's been a strong emotional memory left in your life. <br />A lot of my writing has centred around fathers and the loss of them, (because my father and I lost each other when I was three) but an incident that happened at Taieri Gorge when I was young, where a little girl got swept down the river and was saved by an unrelated bloke running full bore into the water, also keeps trying to find its way into my stories.Mike Crowlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02823415769823932104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264914780516321436.post-49966038868058548382009-06-27T14:53:53.850+12:002009-06-27T14:53:53.850+12:00Whoops, that should have been "Johanna" ...Whoops, that should have been "Johanna" in the first paragraph! Sorry, Johanna (and Joanna).Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264914780516321436.post-83737898414998868802009-06-27T14:52:45.074+12:002009-06-27T14:52:45.074+12:00Thanks, Kay and Joanna. As a result of this post, ...Thanks, Kay and Joanna. As a result of this post, I have learned that a friend of mine almost drowned in the river at Bluecliffs Beach when she was a young child (in fact, she did drown and had to be resuscitated)- a rather eerie link between two of the pieces I posted!<br /><br />Johanna, I do plan to post about this when I have thought about it some more, but drowning/flooding has, as you say, a mythic quality that, for example, negotiating greenhouse gas reduction targets does not! (Though the latter provides ample opportunity for satire, and I intend to take up that opportunity when the time is right.)<br /><br />Fiction or poetry that makes a political point is hard to write, though - either the politics or the fiction/poetry ends up being forced a lot of the time. But I don't think that's a reason not to try.Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264914780516321436.post-23228831298037611632009-06-27T08:47:31.045+12:002009-06-27T08:47:31.045+12:00That is a powerful description. Drowning is one of...That is a powerful description. Drowning is one of my worst nightmares.<br /><br />Flood stories touch something very deep within the human psyche, don't they ... Weird thing about climate change - it's like living through real life Myth.<br /><br />I'll be really interested to hear your thoughts on why it's so hard to write about ... Is it partly because it always threatens to become lumped in with 'issues based' writing?Johannahttp://quietworldproject.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264914780516321436.post-3106676132910725182009-06-26T18:02:18.051+12:002009-06-26T18:02:18.051+12:00A glut (in a good way) of Southland memory-trigger...A glut (in a good way) of Southland memory-triggers for me today!!!! after reading your poetry and then that story about Bluecliffs, where in the sixties it was toheroa heaven with hellish cold sea-water soaking you up to your armpits (or entirely). A real mixture of pain and pleasure.Kay Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01791873464409271216noreply@blogger.com