Oooh-err,
an extra bit!
I've just remembered! (Thinking about theft) I actually quoted Stravinsky 
and TS Eliot in a poem once where each of them said "A good poet (musician) 
steals" and there's a quote of Nuala Ni Dhominhnail (an Irish poet, born in 
St. Helens, Lancashire) who described poetry as being like shop-lifting, and 
getting out of the shop without the alarm going off! Thjere's a literary 
precident to this person's theft Yr Honour!
Bob


>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Fiction - replies
>Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:04:46 +0000
>
>Hi all who've commented,
>Thanks for what you've written about this poem!
>Sad to say the poem is a fiction in itself. Sorry, Mike, Frank! (I only 
>hope the novellists I know don't read this, and have done this! I'll feel 
>awful then!). But it could well happen. It's sometimes astonishing what 
>some writer’s get up to, possibly under the guise of research! – That may 
>be what’s going on, because she does seem to do it on purpose! Yet again… I 
>don’t think I know what’s actually going on, I just thought, when I’d 
>written it, “H’m, that’s interesting…” Then, when I added a title, I 
>thought, “H’m, I guess it’s a poem.”
>I guess I sort of believe that poems get written with the stimuli of Memory 
>and Imagination (and differing percentages of each are found in different 
>poems).
>I guess this is 90% imagination & 10% memory – the memory part being a 
>vague recollection of some incidents similar to what Christina alluded to, 
>the risks writers sometimes take in their lives to assist their writing. 
>And, Barbara, I’m taking what you said, about how it works for you, 
>seriously! But I don’t know how to respond… except to say that when we see 
>(when I see...) someone "famous" I sense I don't look at the fame but stare 
>hard to see their humanness, I warm to people with faults I can cope with. 
>(Maybe that's near to what you're saying Ryfkah?). So, can I cope with 
>someone filching a postcard - perhaps more than I can with some of the 
>other things I see around me! (But, do I still dissaprove of what "she's" 
>done? Possibly not...)
>Bob
>
>
>
>>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Fiction
>>Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:36:10 +0000
>>
>>One for yr C & C:
>>
>>
>>Fiction
>>
>>I saw a famous novelist
>>in WH Smiths at lunchtime
>>as she twirled the postcard rack,
>>picked one out – the Transporter Bridge
>>lit in an evening sky -  slipped it
>>into her pocket, then slowly
>>walked out. On the TV tonight,
>>when she was introduced,
>>I watched carefully while she
>>talked quickly and smiled.
>>
>>
>>Bob Cooper
>>
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