offence taken. what would you prefer, dear hugh - since you are one of the
poets i refer to as 'emergent' - would you prefer 'new' (god help us), 'next
generation (hardly accurate), a phallic 'rising' (????), some tightly wound
definite term like the 'post-generation of '68', or the pretentious
'postmodern', perhaps 'immature' or 'amateur' might be applicable to certain
poets??
(for those who don't have any idea what hughy and i are talking about, my
thesis is a study of Australia's 'emergent' poetries (1990-) which includes
poets who have published their first collection since 1990.)
hugh (and anyone interested) - do you have any better suggestions???? i am
open to different terms
i await your gracious reply
regards
deb
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Tired words
> Dear Andrew
>
> My sister has a cat called 'serendipity' or
> 'seren' for short. My favourite tired word
> in Oz poetry is 'anti-pastoral'. Oh and then
> there's 'emerging' or 'emergent' (no offence
> intended to Deb Comerford).
>
> best
>
> Hugh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Tired words
>
>
> > Yep!
> >
> > 'Minutiae', 'tendril', 'shard' are definitely some for the least-wanted
> > list.
> >
> > On a similar topic, anyone else see that list of the Nation's
> > Favourite Words in (I think) The Express newspaper last week?
> > Survey of 15,000 people I believe . . . in first place was
> > 'serendipity'. Interesting that two made-up words (from the
> > Harry Potter series) also made it into the top 10 -- 'quiddich' (sp?)
> > and 'muggle'. I think 'onomatopoeia' made top 5.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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