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 © 1973-2011 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 writings and projects @ Lulu.com, visit:-
JOHN
O'LOUGHLIN's STOREFRONT
Other
websites by the author include:-
CHANGING WORLDS
FIXED LIMITS
TEXT
LINKS
Centretruths
@
BTtradespace
John
O'Loughlin's Wordpress Space
MySpace weblogs
Guestbook
The
Centretruths Catalogue
Email: john-oloughlin@centretruths.co.uk
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 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 and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born 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),
An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and Post-Atomic Integrities (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his
true literary vocation, and 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),
Philosophical Truth (1991-2) and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O'Loughlin has continued, since 1974, to live at various addresses in Crouch End and Hornsey, north London, but would like, one day, to return to Ireland.
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