Rats, erratum tedium:
the opening 'I did' shd of corpse be 'I did not'
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----- Original Message -----
From: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: space fat/some quick, loose thoughts
> komninos
>
> I did employ the term 'great poet' nor 'not a great poet' in respect of
> roger mcgough, I was griping about the prevalence of very light verse on
the
> extremely small amount of time the BBC begrudges to poetry in its airtime.
> 30 years ago, when roger mcgough was at least writing good light verse,
> instead of almost doggerel, you could hear both him and the likes of the
> elderly David Jones or a young Peter Reading or W.S. Grahame or other
poets
> from multiple points of the spectrum in the same slots.
>
> As for whether I think I know what a real poet is: No, of course I don't,
I
> rely on other people to tell me, obviously.
>
>
> david
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: komninos zervos <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 7:38 AM
> Subject: Re: space fat/some quick, loose thoughts
>
>
> > At 11:47 PM 2/17/01 -0000, you wrote:
> > >suburbanite tenured pseudo-poets
> >
> > poets/pseudo-poets please deconstruct.
> > you are saying you know what a 'real' poet is?
> >
> > > As I speak the BBC is broadcasting a programme airing the work and
views
> of
> > >Roger McGough and Wendy Cope.
> > >The cutting edge of British culture.
> > >
> > >david
> >
> > no doubt this is a sarcastic statement - you couldn't really see roger
> > mcgough as a 'real' poet?
> >
> > komninos
> > komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
> > cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
> > komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
> > lecturer in cyberStudies,
> > school of arts,
> > gold coast campus,
> > griffith university,
> > pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
> > queensland, 9726
> > australia.
> >
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