Thanks, Candice. Saints do interest me, probably because I can't understand
them. The painting the poem is based on is in Southampton City Art Gallery -
a long way for you to go and see it, I know. Amazingly, I forgot to take a
note of the name of the painter. Can anyone help?
Haven't read Steve's poem, as I haven't had my copy yet.
Best wishes
Matthew
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Date: 07 August 2000 00:35
Subject: STAND up
>Seeing as Matthew Francis and S. K. (Captain) Kelen are on-tap at
>the mo', let me highly recommend the new (June) issue of STAND in
>which both have _wonderful_ poems. I'm especially taken with the
>whizz-banging conclusion to Matthew's "St. Catherine and the
>Philosophers"--with no slight intended to Steve's lovely poem,
>(it's just that "St. Catherine" gets me where I live, so to
>speak).
>
>Wonder if anybody else would be interested in a project of poems
>on saints (lives or texts, canonized or de-nominated therefore, or
>thoroughly disreputable candidates of one's own)--? A sort of po-mo
>_legenda aurea_ of baser metals, maybe?
>
>Anyway, go read STAND--lotsa good stuff there by our own and others--
>
>Candice
>
>
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