> Thanks indeed, Martin
>
> (from the shrinking fishermen of Disjecta Membra that too)
>
> Interesting about what vocal colour's can be heard on the 'page'. To take a
> very different writer, I can 'hear' a certain West Midlands effect in
> Geoffrey Hill's poems, they have a reddish tinge, but I'm sure too that I'm
> more sensitized to that particular vowel-set than most.
>
> What I think can carry across is a stress-emphatic focus, RSE writers tend
> to 'smooth out' the line.
This seems very much in line (or tune) with the wonderful way you mix
English idioms of diverse temporal/regional origins in the same poem,
letting them bounce off each other for a brownian-motion effect that's
sometimes zany, other times quite poignantly time-warped. Mouth can mod off?
Candice
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