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Welcome to the POETRY AND PROSE of

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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John O'Loughlin

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