Must say I didn't think of this as a sonnet at all. Thanks for the comment.
It's been tidied a bit since posting so looks a bit diferent now.
bw
James
>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re Re: Nw sub: An Old Poetry Book
>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:55:30 +0000
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>I recognize the state of bookness. I have a PMP in similar mode.
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>The rhyme inside/applied made me expect a formal structure and the 16 line
>sonnet has an interesting track record eg Simon Armitage - used where a
>longer denoument is required. Am I on the right track? Philip
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>>From: James Bell <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Nw sub: An Old Poetry Book
>>Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:45:03 +0000
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>>Just a break from birds and things for a bit though one crept in. The book
>>in question is an old Penguin Modern Poets containing John Ashbery and two
>>others I can't remember off the top of my head.
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>>AN OLD POETRY BOOK
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>>there's the page just inside
>>the cover that has been a bright
>>yellow dyed look applied
>>from a freshly sourced
>>urine base and now part
>>of the paper's fabric,
>>the page in this way has
>>naturally aged - there is
>>no vile smell, only the
>>mustiness of age and a long
>>stasis on a bookshelf where
>>the spine was the only
>>identifier - now clear
>>of this confinement the poems
>>still glitter from the browning
>>pages of a slim Penguin.
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>>bw
>>James
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