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04-09-2018, 06:03 PM
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T.S. Kerrigan has died
Friends and family members of Thomas Kerrigan, who was a member here and who usually published as T.S. Kerrigan, have announced on Facebook that he has died. I didn't know him well, but he took poems of mine when he guest-edited The Raintown Review, and he was kind in his comments on my poems and his replies to me on Facebook.
If you weren't familiar with him, here's some of his work, on The Hypertexts.
I thought that some who post, or used to post, here would want to know. May he rest in peace.
Last edited by Maryann Corbett; 04-09-2018 at 06:06 PM.
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04-09-2018, 06:36 PM
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Oh, I'm very sad to hear that news, Maryann. Tom and I exchanged many a friendly PM, right from when I first joined the Sphere. In addition to poetry, we chatted about motorbikes when he found out that I rode one.
I liked his sense of humour, though once or twice I wasn't quite sure whether Tom was joking or not!
Thank you for letting us know.
Jayne
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04-10-2018, 05:09 AM
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Thank you, Maryann. I didn't know him well but where our online lives touched there was warmth and good conversation. He confronted his illness with fortitude and I admired him greatly.
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04-10-2018, 05:41 AM
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Yes, I had a casual online relationship with him as well. He was always a gentlemen, but with a mischievous side. I know he has been ill for some time, but this is nevertheless sad news. Rest in peace.
Nemo
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04-10-2018, 08:15 AM
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In what was maybe one of the greatest Eratosphere threads ever, he once posted a perplexing two-line poem in Met that immediately prompted several pages of argument over
- whether or not it constituted a poem and if so whether it was good poem
- the history of the short poem
- what obligation the writer has to readers in terms of clarity
with no word from its creator. Several days later he returned having been somewhere with no computer access to find he had accidentally copy and pasted only the first two lines of a much longer poem.
Last edited by Orwn Acra; 04-10-2018 at 08:23 AM.
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04-10-2018, 08:37 AM
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I am sorry to hear of his death. I remember his editorship of The Raintown Review and his participation in Eratosphere.
Susan
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04-10-2018, 09:32 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Orwn Acra
In what was maybe one of the greatest Eratosphere threads ever, he once posted a perplexing two-line poem in Met that immediately prompted several pages of argument over
- whether or not it constituted a poem and if so whether it was good poem
- the history of the short poem
- what obligation the writer has to readers in terms of clarity
with no word from its creator. Several days later he returned having been somewhere with no computer access to find he had accidentally copy and pasted only the first two lines of a much longer poem.
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This is why I almost wish we had a hall of fame for posts. I'd love to have read this.
I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
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04-11-2018, 06:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Orwn Acra
In what was maybe one of the greatest Eratosphere threads ever, he once posted a perplexing two-line poem in Met that immediately prompted several pages of argument over
- whether or not it constituted a poem and if so whether it was good poem
- the history of the short poem
- what obligation the writer has to readers in terms of clarity
with no word from its creator. Several days later he returned having been somewhere with no computer access to find he had accidentally copy and pasted only the first two lines of a much longer poem.
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That's funny! I don't remember it. But I remember something a bit similar, the time when Tim posted a new unpublished Richard Wilbur poem wherein one of the quatrains stood out for not having a rhyme. A long discussion ensued, with the majority opinion emerging that it was a brilliant move that only the great Dick Wilbur could pull off. A couple of days later, Tim apologized for the typo and corrected the line, which now rhymed. I think that sort of benefit of the doubt is only accorded to poets perceived as extraordinarily gifted, so it's a tribute to Mr. Kerrigan than he could be in that category.
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