Thanks Sally, they don't always come this easy. The "bible and shakespeare"
was an allusion to Desert Island Discs but I like your interpretation. Had
PS19 for breakfast this morning. You are brave no longer taking the Arts
Council shilling. Looking forward to some fine poetry. No time for more
today as I'm reading in Exeter tonight.
bw
James


>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: No Man Is An Island
>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:43:30 +0000
>
>on 23/1/02 2:41 pm, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > This is very much a rough cut so comments very welcome
> >
> > NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
> >
>
>Yes I like this James, it's different from most of  your poems that I have
>seen. Perhaps the subject suits the "rough cut". The 'bible and
>shakespeare'
>makes me think of the British Library that is up that way isn't it? I like
>the wit of island and traffic island and the point that you can be just as
>alone in a city as on a desert island. I wouldnt change it. I like the
>iinitial but, too.  Sally-ee
> > but
> > here between the traffic
> > on goodge street
> > there is space for me
> > between the square white obilisks
> > displaying shamanistic arrow signs
> >
> > no bible or shakespeare
> > but
> > two cans of special brew
> > in a place of my own
> > where everything else
> > except me
> > is moving on
> >
> > today i noticed a foot print
> > preserved in the concrete
> > that tells me there was
> > another of my kind here
> > a long time ago
> >
> > James Bell
> >
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com




bw
James


_________________________________________________________________
Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com