Well Roger is a villanous plagiarist.
SallyE
> hmm - that 'from' still bugs me. You see, the version that actually inspired
> me (which I read a few weeks before deciding I needed some poesiotherapy)
> was Roger McGough's 'What I love about school' ( in 'Enough to Eat' 2002)
>
> I still contend that my poem's antecedents were far more grubby and prosaic
> than you are giving me credit for.
>
> Terri )O(
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Sally Evans
> Sent: 22 February 2003 22:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New: Exercise #1
>
>
> 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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