Steve Denehan

I just, the painting, I love his paintings and I've always loved his paintings.

And I find

To me, look, everybody likes Edward Harper, but I find them very emotional paintings.

I find he paints emotion like nobody else.

And I love different painters and artists and whatnot, but there's a certain type of emotion he captured.

He captures loneliness, I think, better than anyone.

Even in the company of people.

Oh, 1 to 100.

In fact, more so sometimes.

And I find they evoke a whole lot in me.

And so I wrote a lot of poems to go with these paintings.

Now, it turns out the paintings are, you can't publish them.

So an editor got in touch with me and suggested an ekphrastic poetry collection.

And I went ahead and said, yeah, grand.

And then I got back to them and said, here, how about this?

And they said, oh, no, we can't do Harper like because he's massive, you know, his estate and whatnot.

So I said, OK, I've just kind of written that, but no problem.

So then one of the poems got published somewhere and I put it up a trope, a poem every Monday and

Somebody saw it.

I said, this is from a book that's never going to come out based on Edward Harper's paintings.