Welcome to the COLLECTED POETRY of

FROM EARTH TO SKY

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

Links to the files of which follow the brief introduction below:-

 

This substantial compilation of my complete poetical works combines readerly with non-readerly poems in what, in general terms, I like to think of as a distinction between ‘concrete’ and ‘abstract’ approaches to poetry, the former being, with one exception, either rhymed or in free verse; the latter, by contrast, either in free verse of an abstract - if just readerly (i.e. that can be read) - order or, like the Contemplations, in patterned and often block-like arrangements which require only to be contemplated (hence the title).  Thus there is quite a contrast not only between the two types of readerly poetry, but between them and the two types of abstract poetry, neither of which owes very much to the other, even though there is a general progression, on both sides, from rhymed to non-rhymed poetry and from ‘readerly’ abstracts to pure abstracts such that defy reading as a vehicle for comprehension, irrespective of the fact that some form of comprehension is still possible on a purely or largely contemplative basis.  Thus there is also an overall progression, in this compilation of my poetry, from rhymed readerly poems to non-readerly abstract poems that are yet the product of careful structuring and not at all arbitrary or anarchic, some of which even intimate of meaning through what appear to be rhyme-like juxtapositions of key words.  – John O’Loughlin.

 

SYNOPSES

 

 

DOSSHOUSE BLUES

 

 

Dosshouse Blues

 

 

STRESSING THE ESSENTIAL

 

 

Stressing the Essential

 

 

SPIRITUAL INTIMATIONS

 

 

Spiritual Intimations

 

 

ABSTRACTS

 

 

Abstracts

 

 

THE MODERN DEATH

 

 

The Modern Death

 

 

EVOLUTION

 

 

Evolution

 

 

TREES

 

 

Trees

 

 

CONTEMPLATIONS 1

 

 

Contemplations 1

 

 

CONTEMPLATIONS 2

 

 

Contemplations 2

 

 

CONTEMPLATIONS 3

 

 

Contemplations 3

 

 

SUPERCONTEMPLATIONS

 

 

Supercontemplations

 

 

ULTRACONTEMPLATIONS

 

 

Ultracontemplations

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

John James O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in Aldershot, Oakham, and, following the death and repatriation of his grandmother, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and Deceptive Motives (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin dedicated himself exclusively to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and has penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), and Philosophical Truth (1991-2). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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