Thanks Claire. The Cat POems get about 500 readings/month of the
text on the Web whereas the KItten POems are only just starting
to make an impact at 100/month. They have only been up 6 months.
But not the same number of readers as for 'Auld Lang Syne'
which is the most popular poem I have up. (It is the notes
I have pinched that make my Robert Burns poems worth looking at).
How people find out about the Cat POems, other than SEarch Engines,
I have no idea. My other poetry, its just about all on the WEb,
gets a very average readership. It is the Cat Poems that people want.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Claire Gaskin wrote:
> I enjoyed the cat poems Douglas. I only meant to read one or two because I
> have so much to do but I read them all.
> Claire
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:32 AM
> Subject: Re: bpNichol
>
>
> > http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/poetry/library/ca1.html
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/poetry/library/kh1.html
> >
> > Have fun!
> >
> >
> >
> > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> > Lynx: Poetry from Bath ..........
> http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Stuart Ross wrote:
> >
> > > Doug Barbour writes:
> > >
> > > >Gee David
> > > >
> > > >I wish you could read the late bpNichol, one of our greatest. A major
> > > >talent, & beautifully working against mere egotism (among so many other
> > > >things his work did).
> > >
> > > Yeah, for someone who wrote almost exclusively about himself (The
> > > Martyrology series), bp was completely devoid of all the negative
> > > connotations of egotism. He is remembered as one of the most
> > > generous, selfless folks on the Canadian literary scene.
> > >
> > > I've just been going through his work again lately -- particularly
> > > his visual/concrete poems. You can just tell what a *nice guy* he was
> > > through the playfulness and spirit of that work.
> > >
> > > I taught a poetry workshop at an arts retreat this past summer, and
> > > one of my "students" was a hopeless poet. At least, that's what I
> > > thought. You know, godawful rhyming crap about her cat and stuff. And
> > > her spelling was atrocious; she was dyslexic. Anyway, I screened the
> > > bpNichol documentary Pushing The Boundaries and she was transformed!
> > > She was so excited -- the image of letters dancing around the screen
> > > and the sounds of words repeating and transmuting... she said that
> > > that was just how she saw language. And she started writing all this
> > > incredible free-form stuff, and even did a pretty good sound poem at
> > > the final night's reading. Wish I coulda told bp about her.
> > >
> > > Stu
> > > in Toronto
> > >
>
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