well, Terri, your version is perfectly fine. Edwin's is a bit more "beat" or
"concrete". I stick to my assertion that the format is 'from' Eddie's poem,
and your Sally the third has indeed acknowledged her source.
bw
SallyE
on 22/2/03 10:22 pm, alderoak at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 'from'?
>
> Interesting term. If anything it is 'from' a book by Sally Brownjohn, 'To
> rhyme or not to rhyme'.
>
> SB borrowed the idea from Edwin Morgan's 'A view of things' and used it to
> create an exercise (amongst many others) designed to inspire children to
> write poetry.
>
> As SB's is a book I shamelessly plagiarise, I am happy to promote it. Sadly
> she only refers to Edwin Morgan and does not reproduce the poem. Not so
> sadly, for me, I suspect, as it might have been too hard to measure up to.
>
> Terri )O(
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Sally Evans
> Sent: 22 February 2003 21:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New: Exercise #1
>
>
> You know this is from Edwin Morgan's poem don't you?
> Just making sure
>
> what I hate about Pam is her pinkie
> etc
> (pinkie is Scots for the little finger)
> bw
> SallyE
>
> on 22/2/03 9:45 pm, alderoak at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Exercise #1
>>
>> What I love about books
>> is running my fingers up and down their smoothly printed spines.
>> What I hate about spines
>> is the slippery soft-centredness of intervertebral discs.
>> What I love about discs
>> is snapping the cellophane on a pristine jewel-case.
>> What I hate about jewel-cases
>> is that elusive fingernail of grey fluff in each velvet corner.
>> What I love about corners
>> is pebble-dash, cannoned by random shopping trolleys exposing the bricks.
>> What I hate about bricks
>> is the hackneyed toppling of wobbly rainbow alphabets.
>> What I love about alphabets
>> is the infinite creativity of the human voice distilled to a spatter of
>> codes in a book.
>> What I hate about books…
>>
>>
>> Terri )O(
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