Nigel Lindsay Spark - Inspiring New Poet - Nigel Spark was born in Melbourne Australia,1956. He worked as a Labourer, Mold Maker and Electronics Technician. Unfortunately, his career was cut short due to a chronic diabetic condition which resulted in complications in 1997. He was then forced into retirement at the age of forty one, and two years later - he moved on to a small historic town in Maldon Victoria. His health may have caused him hardship and obviously a dire setback in his life; nevertheless it became a turning point for Nigel Spark which motivated a passion for exposing and expressing his innermost thoughts on paper. That creative force is well described here: "My poetry is a scrapbook of an observer, though the subject may not be related I can remember what my thoughts beliefs and life was at the time when they were written as I read them just as one reminisces over a scrapbook......it was born from a need to emotionally express anger, it subsequently expressed much more and set a so long shackled part of me free........I was undoubtedly shy and introverted through to adult life concentrating on and mastering technical things but under the several extreme pressures the introvert became angrily extrovert verbally and expressively...... I had no interest at school in the few poetic works exposed and thought it rather silly. I have never really been attracted to the literary world and think I have only ever read two or three novels in my life. I do now have an appreciation for the limitless way in which the English language can be manipulated to either state something more accurate or with intentional ambiguity or satire. I have never studied poetry and don't intend to, I feel it may take away the spontaneity and basic creative urge to express I have a rhyming dictionary but I've never read it. It's only by chance and "word of mouth" that I even know what a Stanza is. My biggest disappointment is that I can't remember them to recite to others. I am likely to recall lines from the past discarded draft of a poem or create or rearrange the lines if I try to recite them. The only poem of my own I can recite is "GOODNIGHT" because it's short." His work:"I rarely wrote with a subject in mind, even I had no idea what would eventuate from one of my poems such as "BEGUILING VINE" simply came from seeing my Ivy Vine wrapped around a tree but the imbedded meaning or philosophy came somewhere in the writing unplanned. I awoke at 4 a.m. one morning and simple wrote "Tree entwined by Vine" and went back to sleep. I remember and treasure it as the fastest I had written, 45 minutes after I awoke it was written as it now stands. "FRAGILE FAME" which I also treasure for its meaningful length and the first poem I wrote where I first decided the subject (American Western) thinking there was plenty content or knowledge to construct something from the mass exposure to American Western Movies - it however took 20 continuous hours to write." "My early works were constructed with the same ending rhyme to each line, very repetitive and somewhat irritating though sometimes works as in poem "LOVE." I discovered once having used this repetitive rhyme (it was a good training exercise by default) that constructing alternating rhyming stanzas was easy." " As electronics seems limitless in application from a limited number of components, poetry is limitless in expression and meaning from a limited number of words. Isn't that lucky? It need never end, it will never all be said, a sub language in its own right much as the sort wit and wisdom of the proverb." In the same breath, he also expresses his preference on poetry form: "I have little like of prose (no rhyme) though some have done it well." Email: Nigel The selected works are the sole property of the author, Nigel L. Spark. Selected Work ~ |
