London, July 12: Not content with playing the most famous fictional characters of the recent times, it seems Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has `literary` ambitions of his own.Radcliffe has been unmasked as a budding poet whose work has appeared in an underground fashion publication, Daily mail online reported.
His quartet of poems, published under a pen name called Jacon Greshan and written when he was 17, are about infidelity, Pop Idol and junkie rock star Pete Doherty.
The most controversial of the four, `Away Days`, details the narrator`s affairs with prostitutes.
A second poem is in homage to Doherty while another takes a pot shot at media mogul Simon Cowell and the queues of `deluded` fans who line up to compete in TV talent contests.
The final effort is about a man`s attempts to seduce women.
They appeared under the pseudonym Jacob Gershon, a combination of Radcliffe`s middle name and the Jewish version of his mother`s maiden name, Gresham.
The poems were published in November 2007 in `Rubbish` magazine - a satirical annual publication with a circulation
of 3,000 which describes itself as `a playful platform for fashionable people`.Introducing Radcliffe`s work, it says it is `proudly debuting the work of Jacob Gershon, 17, a very exciting and dynamic young poet`.
"I didn`t want to publish it under my name. It`s the kind of thing I look back on and just think, `Ahhh!`. As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you`re always ultimately going to be saying somebody else`s words," the website quoted Radcliffe telling in an interview Guardian.
"I don`t think I`d have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I`d love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. There is an art to a short story," Radcliffe said.
"I love Raymond Carver, and Chekhov - without making myself sound more highbrow than I am! When I don`t write in form and metre, I become unbearably self-indulgent. It`s what Robert Frost said: `free verse is like playing tennis with the net down`," he added.
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