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Introducing
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Collected
Rhyming & Free Verse Poems of John O'Loughlin
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Drawn from several previous
volumes, this collection of lyric poetry, comprised of rhymed poems
and free verse, dates from the early 1970s and reveals the slow
growth, out of a conventionally youthful romanticism, of a
philosophical-cum-ideological approach to poetry which became
characteristic of all John O'Loughlin's literary work in the 1980s, as
though transitional to an uninhibitedly philosophical phase of
writings to come which would leave even philosophical literature,
including fiction, severely in the lurch. Therefore there is a sense
in which these poems strain towards philosophy as though towards the
author's true destiny in writing, while yet retaining certain poetic
values and tendencies which he was not, at that time, in a position to
wholeheartedly reject from a morally or culturally superior
vantage-point, as from the standpoint of one who had 'seen through'
poetry and its 'right' to certain limitations. In retrospect, we find
many of these poems ideologically and intellectually specious or, at
the very least, suspect; but Mr O'Loughlin would not have got beyond
this stage of his literary evolution without having gone through it in
the first place, and some of them, one has to admit, still impress one
with their boldness, imaginative flair, spiritual insightfulness, and
sheer poetic insolence. They may not be the wings upon which this
author has since grown accustomed to flying, but at least they enabled
him to get off the ground and intimate of places and states of being
which no purely mundane or overly romantic approach to poetry would
even envisage, never mind set out for in the first place! In that
respect, they are an integral part of a steady climb to rarer and
finer latitudes of the mind, and should therefore be read as a means
to a higher end, rather than as a final statement on any of the
subjects to which they purport to demonstrate some special knowledge.
Yes, it would appear that John O'Loughlin took poetry pretty seriously
in the early 1970s and then again, after the best part of a decade, in
the early-to-mid 80s, but had that not been the case the results would
not have been nearly so impressive or seemingly conclusive. – A Centretruths Editorial
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