What, me, warn you off, Candice?
As if I would so much as _dare_.
The soothsayers keep muttering about this Maldon and the England football
team, whatever that is, but here in the Dark Ages we no understand.
yuurs
Manumissimus Minimus ex Cloaca Metropolis
(that's pidgin Latin for broken English)
----- Original Message -----
From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: A caution
> on 2/6/01 2:45 AM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
>
> > It obviously being in the run-up to the 4th century AD here, and the
shore
> > defences will soon collapse.
>
> Right, you lot still have Maldon to look forward to--and there's a
> cautionary tale, if ever there was!
>
> > Otherwise all I can say is to echo the header of this thread. Without
the
> > article, indefinite or not.
>
> So why, I wonder, here in the Two-if-by-sea, One-if-by-land Land, do I
> get the feeling you're warning me (off?)....
>
> Skol,
>
> Brunhilde
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: A caution
> >
> >
> >> David,
> >>
> >> Matthew is pretty clearly using "provincial" in the ordinary sense of
> >> province-related, as opposed to your earlier "I live 100 miles from
> > London,"
> >> ergo "I am 'provincial'," but your mention of Carcanet gives me a
> >> serendipitous opening to answer Jill's earlier query about who I talked
to
> >> in Australia and how tanked up they were when the subject of homey
> > poetries
> >> came up. Without being too indiscreet, let me recall that this was the
> >> spring of 1999, just after Oxford had announced the shutdown of its
> >> poetry-publishing enterprise, which had included Chris Wallace-Crabbe,
> > whom
> >> I overheard telling someone--soberly, in both senses of the term, and
with
> >> evident relief--that Carcanet had just "picked [him] up." (This was in
> >> Melbourne, where--not incidentally--Collected Works was being evicted
from
> >> its former space, and when I met its owner, Kris Hemensley, he still
> > hadn't
> >> located new premises for this illustrious poetry venue.) Earlier that
week
> >> in Hobart, I'd met some of the poets affiliated with Island, which was
> > then
> >> between editors and feared to be about to go under for lack of
funding--so
> >> another sober session there. These were very dire times for poetry in
both
> >> those Australian locales, in other words, and such straitened
> > circumstances
> >> rarely bring out the charitable side in anyone.
> >>
> >> Whether that's a factor in some of the anger that's erupted in this
> >> discussion of (mainly) the Sydney poetry scene, as reported by JK, I
don't
> >> know. (Jill: no, my sidetrip to Sinny got cancelled, alas!) What I can
> > tell
> >> you, though, is that a pair interesting list-threads to do with JK's
> > article
> >> developed on two different lists today and spawned parallel discussions
> >> among some of the same people (namely, Jill and Debbie, here and
> >> there--"there" being Cassie Lewis's PoetryEspresso list.) Since this
was
> >> where I picked up the link to JK's article myself, having accepted
> > Cassie's
> >> posted invitation to check out the archives and discovered yesterday
that
> >> Deb had posted the SMH link (without comment then), I went back to
> >> PoetryEspresso tonight out of curiosity to see if anything like our own
> >> "Caution" thread had emerged there in the meantime. Nor was I
> > disappointed!
> >>
> >> As you'll see if you care to peruse the PetryEspresso archives for
today
> > (or
> >> yesterday, rather, by now), it was THE thread of the day, and mention
was
> >> made of checking out our own archives in turn, so here's the URL again,
> > for
> >> anyone who'd like to do some comparison shopping:
> >>
> >> http://www.topica.com/lists/PoetryEspresso
> >>
> >> Just click on "read this list" in the top right-hand corner when the
list
> >> info. pops up, and it will open up to the (dated) messages (Deb's
original
> >> posting of 2/4 and then the resulting thread of 2/5). Ah, list
life--they
> >> oughta make a movie of it ("It's a Wonderful Link"?)--
> >>
> >> Candice
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