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Introducing
STRESSING
THE
ESSENTIAL
Free Verse by John O’Loughlin
Which can be previewed via the
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below the following Centretruths
editorial:–
This
collection of twenty-five mainly philosophical poems, written during
1982, may
serve to confirm that John O’Loughlin had
considerably deepened his approach to and concept of poetry since Dosshouse Blues (1973–4), and the
result
should not prove displeasing to anyone who would prefer to see him
primarily as
a philosopher (albeit a self-taught one) who occasionally dabbles in
other
things, poetry not excepted! Doubtless
the fact that he is someone of southern Irish birth who, brought over
to
England as a young child in consequence of parental separation, has
spent the
greater part of his life away from his native country ... has something
to do
with this paradoxical state-of-affairs, since one is often exposed to
contrary
influences and predilections, both natural and artificial, neither of
which
greatly ingratiates one to less complex or, perhaps I should say,
paradoxically
confused and disadvantaged people? Be
that as it may, John O’Loughlin accepts
that he has,
at various times in his life, been prepared to dabble in poetry, even
if from a
philosophic rather than a strictly poetic standpoint, since the
adoption of
alternative genres makes for variety both in the presentation and
conception of
one's thought, and can be beneficial to the writer himself, who could
otherwise
bog down in one mould and grow stale or bored, as the case might be. Stressing the Essential, the first of
four collections of philosophical poems written in successive years,
precluded
Mr O’Loughlin from experiencing such a
stultifying
fate and was thus of indirect benefit to his philosophical will. It was not, however, any the less easy, so we
are reliably informed, for him to write! – A Centretruths
Editorial
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