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From: Paul Green <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:55:02 +0100
To: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Poetry & the Internet
OK, Lawrence, I perhaps grandiosely used the royal "we' when I referred to
the doing of poetry - some iambics will still heard on podiums and read on
vellum or something like it - but Nostradamus-like I intuit a great
disturbance in the force, as it were...
I will extend the wager to you and Mr Halsey - but not to the whole list...
> From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:12:08 +0100
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poetry & the Internet
>
> I doubt this.
>
> Extensions of collage etc have been happening since they first happened;
> multi-media predates the web by decades; and collective composition
>
> "extended intertextuality" is a bit burdensome and limited without
> hypertext, though, but it hardly started with the web
>
> Your wager seems implausible to me
>
> Armitage will still be shanking away; Poetry please or something like it
> will still be broadcasting a highwayman came riding...
>
> In your post, Paul, you speak of the technology facilitating; and that is
> the word. As the technology gets cheaper and cheaper and more powerful in
> terms of processor speed and size of backing store, so the ability to
> experiment will become greater as it becomes easier; but totally redefining
> the way we do poetry? No. The technology isn't doing the redefining and it
> isn't that wholesale
>
> L
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Green" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:21 PM
> Subject: Poetry & the Internet
>
> I'll
>> wager [...] that in a decade (Oct 9 2014) that the web and the e-book
> will have totally
>> redefined the way we do poetry...
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