Dom
I did a reading last Friday, it went down like the proverbial bomb, I even
had to do an encore, beforehand I was both unhappy about the fact of the
event and totally devoid of ideas of how to introduce my stuff. What I did
was latch my comments onto specific poems, i.e. when I was writing this I
was thinking about ..., etc.
Agree with you about preferring WC to CAD, definitely. There are phonies and
there are phonies.
Now I can attest that 'stupidity' in the sense that Alison introduced it is
even useful in designing web pages, at times it helps to be divested of
intelligence, or intellection. One has to be careful about paeons to being
dumb, but in certain contexts, not that I don't agree with your revulsion
from the otiose, I feel it too, as sure as my shoes.
I thought all poems were either unfinished or abandoned.
Hey, have you heard this 'fact': apparently the centre of Leicester now has
more bars per square whatever than anywhere else in Europe.
All the Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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From: "domfox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: Back on Planet Earth
> > Good Lord, Dom
> >
> > only while walking in the vicinity of Leicester railway station? (I hate
> > that area y'know, I find it so depressing, even by Lestah standards. And
> you
> > must admit that feeling depressed is a quality that this town
specialises
> in
> > generating, almost as good as Coventry or Northampton in that! I say
that
> > with some feeling as I spent 4 years living just by the station)
>
> Nothing in my experience compares to Coventry. Coventry railway station in
> particular.
>
> >
> > And a love of Wendy Cope?
>
> I actually prefer her to Carol Anne Duffy. Rendering The Waste Land into
> limericks is at least clever. Nothing in The World's Wife is even that.
>
> "Tabular schematics" is a good phrase for what to avoid, unless you're
> designing web pages using Dreamweaver like I was being trained to do
earlier
> today. I was thinking the other day about how I was going to describe to
an
> audience what I thought I was doing in my poems, and realised that I
didn't
> really want to say. A clear rationale is lacking, and although you can
have
> fun making one up after the fact, the fact is that that the fact comes
> first. (An unfinished poem is an unfinished fact. There are pieces and you
> pick them up: "you hum it, I'll play it"...)
>
> Dom
>
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