Hi Dave,

Oh well, just was curious. The news about the prize fell across my desk
today and I thought maybe it was dumb of me not to know who he was.

I will be spending the next week far away from Sydney on a very small
island trying to finish off a novel in which one of the characters says
'there are only 150 people in Sydney'. It's an old saying of a friend
of mine and it's pretty true. Seems it may be the case in other places.

Many thanks anyway,
Jill

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 01:17  PM, david.bircumshaw wrote:

> Hi Jill
>
> I know the name, and I even read something of his somewhere along the
> line,
> but for the life of me I can't remember anything about it. Which isn't
> a
> critical comment but rather a confession of being in training for
> Alzheimer's. This afternoon for instance I was talking to someone about
> books, apropos of the debates that have ranged and raged about CAD's
> poem,
> and I wanted to say something very strongly approving of Jean Rhy's
> early
> novellas and short stories of the 1930's, but I couldn't remember what
> her
> name was. The texts yes, but the author's moniker had just slipped
> into that
> yawning void.
>
> Contrariwise, in the same discussion, this guy who lives two floors
> above me
> in the flats suddenly asked if I knew of a poet/playwright called
> Stephen
> Mulrhine (sp?) - I'd never heard of him but he's the cousin of the
> fella who
> was talking - said fella is an alcoholic druggie who is on crutches
> because
> he got in a fight - later on I spoke to Rob and it transpires that SM
> went
> to university with R, a year before, and was initially one of the
> instigators of the Glasgow School in the 60's. My point being twofold:
> what
> a small world it is, and what a big one.
>
> Names, names, and names!
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> Home Page
>
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>
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>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:12 AM
> Subject: about a poet
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just read that a book called The Ice Age by a poet called Paul
> Farley
> has
> just won the Whitbread. I am unfamiliar with the name so was wondering
> if
> anyone had any clues.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
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