Resending this, as it seems to have disappeared into cyberspace, apologies
if it turns up twice.
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From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: in response to Randolph,
This idea of intros sounds fun: what can I say about moi? Let's see now:
I am a six foot plus but skinny 47 year old with bad teeth and no job who
has been published in many magazines but with no proper collection of my own
partly because my putative publisher is a hopeless drunk but also because of
the exclusions of the English class system and my own lack of
self-organisation. I live in a tower block in Leicester, am prone to
melancholy, and telling jokes, am a sometimes alcoholic, who also practises
abstinence, I have an army of friends yet live alone without any family
connections at all, those I care about I always fall out with at some point,
I edit a magazine that has been much commended yet have done no work on it
all for six months because of a crisis of belief in the project. I am
growing a Zapata moustache. I have faith, yet no belief, to use the same
word in variations, my motto might be the Biblical quote' Lord, I believe,
help my unbelief'. I left school at sixteen and am prone to lighting candles
in churches.
Oh, and at times I can write like an angel.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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