Tom Leonard on the usual conventions: "...they never say it the way it's
spelt. Coz it izny spelt, when they say it, is it?"
At 08:36 PM 7/10/2000 +0100, you wrote:
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>"I find ampersands in poems are often 'compensatory gestures' along with
>centering text, beginning of line caps in non formal work, font changes,
>over-short lines, strange tabulation, mid-word enjambment, stepped verses.
>Most of these can earn their worth at times, but are mostly used by bad
>poets as wishful disguise."
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>Oh get over yersel', big man! This sounds like a massively ill-informed
>dismissal of strategies common to a multiplicity of innovative poetries to
>me and, by implication, of those poetries themselves. Won't do, really won't
>do at all.
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