Christopher Ricks was talking about William Barnes on Radio 3
in the concert interval on FRiday night. I started listening
to it but went bored and went back to designing the 'Kitten Poems'
pamphlet on the computers. Ricks was given 20 minutes and didnt
seem to be talking about the 'dialect' poems, which should have
interested me more.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, david.bircumshaw wrote:
> > 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?
>
>
> Interesting, that, Candice.
>
> I know one element in it all is an accident of biography - altho' my family
> wasn't religious there was a King James Bible loitering with intent and so
> my early vocabulary was impacted by anachronism. I like the textures, the
> recessions of language, that 'mixing it' produces, it allows in the 'voices
> of time'.
>
> And, too, it lets loose the comic. One of the funniest things I have ever
> heard was, from all people, William Barnes. He wrote a transcription of one
> of Queen Victoria's State Opening of Parliament speeches into the Dorset
> dialect and the result brings tears quite literally streaming down one's
> eyes, at its utter subversive upendingness.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> A Chide's Alphabet
> www.chidesplay.8m.com
>
> Painting Without Numbers
> www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 11:13 PM
> Subject: Re: poetryetc feature poet - David Bircumshaw
>
>
> > > 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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