Welcome to the
EARLY POETRY AND PROSE (1973–6) of
FROM THE BEGINNING
by John O�Loughlin
of
Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the
files of
which follow the brief introduction below:–
My first real
collection of poems, written on and off during 1973–75, reflects the
lyricism and
formal simplicity of youth, showing the influence of poets like
Rimbaud, Ezra
Pound, Adrian Henri, and Doors lead singer Jim Morrison on my formative
years
as a writer. - A modest but by no means insignificant start to my
literary
vocation, which began pleasantly enough in Merstham,
Surrey,
before
progressing first to Finsbury Park and then to Crouch End in
north London, where I got the inspiration for the poem 'Dosshouse Blues', which should intrigue those who have personal experience of
solitary
life in cheap lodgings. - Appended to the poetry proper is a group of
prose
poems, a series of aphoristic observations of a light-hearted nature,
four
one-act plays, or playlets, two of which
are straight
dialogues, together with a couple of short stories which I wrote at
about the
same time (1976), and which I believe to have a loosely poetic quality
and
deserve, for stylistic reasons, to be included with the playlets,
the title piece of which is a shamelessly facetious spoof on Oscar
Wilde. �
John O�Loughlin.
CONTENTS
GOD'S SACRIFICE
SONG OF THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER
UNREQUITED LOVE
THE LOVERS' DREAM
SOLICITATION
A VINDICATION
REGRET
TO
A
PAINTING
WISHFUL THINKING
DESIRE
THE UNIVERSAL SONG OF LIFE
SONG OF THE LONESOME DRIFTER
THEY TAKE THE LETTERS
TRIBUTE
COMPLAINT
CIRCUMSTANCES
DOSSHOUSE BLUES
FANTASY
CONFESSIONS
I
ENTER
SONG
HER SMILE
REQUIEM
DREAM POEM
PATOIS
CANDLE
SCENE FROM THE CONFESSIONAL
THE POET AT A PARTY
THE POET AND HIS SOLITUDE
THE POET AND HIS SPLEEN
THE POET AND HIS LOVE
THE POET ON A STREET
THOUGHTS
A MAGNANIMOUS OFFER
BETWEEN THE SHELVES
THE LATEST CURE
AN UNUSUAL ENCOUNTER
THE WEEKLY CONFESSION
THE WEEKLY LESSON
All files Copyright � 2012 John O�Loughlin
All
of the above files are also available from Lulu.com in ebook format
And
can be downloaded as either �Dosshouse
Blues� (poetry) @
Dosshouse Blues
Or
�A Magnanimous
Offer� (short
prose) @
A Magnanimous Offer
For a complete
list of his other titles @ Lulu.com, please visit John O'Loughlin's
Author Spotlight
Other
websites by the author include:–
Changing Worlds
Fixed Limits
Text Links
Centretruths
@
Wordpress.com
John
O'Loughlin's Wordpress Space
Centretruths eBook Catalogue
Guestbook
Email: [email protected]
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
John O�Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband)in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in
Aldershot and, upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother and an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care by his mother, Carshalton, Surrey. Upon leaving secondary school in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs
(Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs
(General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford
Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking ABRSM venues for the Board's classical music exams throughout Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, left the Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer-cum-office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency (within the local YMCA) in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and False Pretences (1982). From the mid-80s John O'Loughlin dedicated himself almost exclusively to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and hss penned numerous titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985–6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical Truth (1991–2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
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