http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowley_Birkin_QC
On 7/15/08, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Rowley poems.
>
> I seriously tremble to get between the fell and opposed opposites on this
> thread, but this one is so stunningly obvious.
>
> D'uh!
>
> {You two going at it like a ferret up a leg can be quite unnerving!}
>
> R.
>
> [As no one seems to have noticed, the original title of this thread was a
> concealed allusion to Villon's +Testament+, but bugger *that for a joke.
>
> :-(
>
> Rodent.]
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Literary History (or Five for our Fiends)
>
>
> >
> > wot
> >
> > On 7/15/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > That makes two of us, Roger, because I haven't the faintest about what
> > > you are going on about. You really did a bad one, you know, summoning
> > > up the ghost of EP, since then I keep discovering people who will, at
> > > the end of a conversation, suddenly mention the BNP as a desiderata.
> > > As a poet, you should know how dangerous words can be.
> > >
> > > 2008/7/15 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> > > > My dear boy, I have no idea what you're talking about.
> > > >
> > > > Roger
> > > >
> > > > On 7/15/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >> Roger
> > > >>
> > > >> me ducks, I think you are being an unconscionable time a-flying on >>
> this.
> > > >>
> > > >> Rowley indeed
> > > >>
> > > >> 2008/7/14 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> > > >> > Dear Rowley also says he forgot to mention the colonies. He sends
> >> > his
> > > >> > apologies, however, he became rather incensed after that, more
> > > >> > incensed than usual, something about leaving his bloody language
> > > >> > alone, as it's his and nobody elses, but I couldn't make it out. >>
> > I'll
> > > >> > try again when he's dried out. He's usually not this bad so long >>
> > after
> > > >> > his weekly allowance.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Roger
> > > >> >
> > > >> > On 7/14/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >> >> Forgot to sign that post. It was from my dear, dear, dear friend,
> > > >> >> Rowley Birkin QC and debarred.
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> On 7/14/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >> >> > bloody proles ... mumble mumble ... teach'em to read and what do
> >> >> > they
> > > >> >> > write? rubbish ... mumble mumble ... mumble .... ungrateful I >>
> >> > call it
> > > >> >> > .... might as well give a monkey a typewriter for all the good
> it >> >> > will
> > > >> >> > do .... ..... .... ..... rubbish people write today ... only >>
> >> > people
> > > >> >> > writing POETRY are my dear, dear, dear, Friends and that damn
> cat >> >> > ....
> > > >> >> > and some bloke in the 15th century .... mumble ... mumble ...
> and >> >> > I
> > > >> >> > was very, very, very drunk
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >> > On 7/14/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >> >> > > Although, like most, I can often make off the cuff remarks >>
> >> > > about this
> > > >> >> > > or that, I do hesitate to +seriously+ make big pronouncements
> >> >> > > (don't
> > > >> >> > > laugh) but I would (nervously) propose this:
> > > >> >> > >
> > > >> >> > > that in the English language the last two decades have seen
> the
> > > >> >> > > greatest production of ersatz poetry in the known history of
> >> >> > > human
> > > >> >> > > civilization. I can imagine that more bad poetry has been >>
> >> > > written and
> > > >> >> > > published in English in these years than that of the combined
> >> >> > > total of
> > > >> >> > > all other cultures that have ever existed.
> > > >> >> > >
> > > >> >> > > It's a humbling thought. What it is to live in such great
> days.
> > > >> >> > >
> > > >> >> > > Tsunami.
> > > >> >> > >
> > > >> >> > > --
> > > >> >> > > David Bircumshaw
> > > >> >> > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet >> >> > >
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > > >> >> > > The Animal Subsides >> >> > >
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > >> >> > > Leicester Poetry Society:
> http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > > >> >> > >
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >> > --
> > > >> >> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > >> >> > "I began to warm and chill
> > > >> >> > to objects and their fields"
> > > >> >> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> --
> > > >> >> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > >> >> "I began to warm and chill
> > > >> >> to objects and their fields"
> > > >> >> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > --
> > > >> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > >> > "I began to warm and chill
> > > >> > to objects and their fields"
> > > >> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> David Bircumshaw
> > > >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > > >> The Animal Subsides
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > >> Leicester Poetry Society:
> http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > > "I began to warm and chill
> > > > to objects and their fields"
> > > > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Bircumshaw
> > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > > The Animal Subsides
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > Leicester Poetry Society:
> http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > "I began to warm and chill
> > to objects and their fields"
> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> >
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> >
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My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
"I began to warm and chill
to objects and their fields"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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