Perhaps we should just go back to 'pastoral' and redefine it. Someone not
unknown to this list suggested a number of us Orstrayuns, including moi,
wrote about cities in a 'pastoral' mode.
Hugh's suggestion for renaming has merit. How about strangled for short (or
strangling .. a la Peter's poem)? I'd like to know who he has in mind.
Cheers,
Jill
P.S. I'm not being rude - I'm as emergent (sounds like a butterfly) as the
next hue.
on 21/9/00 10:55 PM, Hugh Tolhurst at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> On Thursday, September 21, 2000 1:15 PM
> John Kinsella wrote:-
>
>
>>> 'anti-pastoral'
>>
>>
>> this has a pretty exclusive usage in oz, hugh. what's your point ol'
>> biscuit? furnish some varied samples.
>>
>> jk
>
>
> Well, I do believe, I've been caught bang to rights
> and I was talking about 'tired words' in the discourse
> around poetry. Like some others, I now prefer 'poisoned
> pastoral' over the much trumpeted 'anti-pastoral'. Which
> (if Deb Comerford doesn't mind) is why I prefer 'should-
> have-been-strangled-at-birth' over 'emerging' and 'emergent'
> poets.
>
> Neither are approved activities down at Centrelink.
>
> best
>
> Hugh
>
>
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