Just as well you put it on then Patrick. She's a modest one is our Alison.
But now Alison has now disappeared down the black hole of some billabong!
What have we done.
Sorry about the lateness of my hours. I'm a barn owl masquerading as a
poet - I do my beauty sleeping under the sun (well under the never-ending
clouds).
G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: GIFTED--------------'a ripping read'mixedlistgiftings
> Alison -Geraldine
> Actually I did not mix up my lists (for once)
> I thought those boring old farts :-)
> brit posies could share in this moving experience
> -loosen them up wind them down-
> 'The Gift' a tome available in good bookshops
> (not sure about north of London though?)
>
> Geraldine anyway what are you doing up at 00-38 ?
> one should be getting beauty sleep
> not be out on the tiles of poetry
>
> cheers to all Patrick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:38 AM
> Subject: Re: GIFTED--------------'a ripping read'
>
>
> > My dear Geraldine
> >
> > Am I so slack? My deepest apologies. (See, I am so abject I could hide
> > behind a matchbox). Patrick has of course mixed up his lists. He means
> > that my young adult fantasy novel, The Gift, has come out in a
spankingly
> > glam edition in the UK, and being a Good Bloke he went and bought it.
> >
> > This is of course very important for my future career as Eurotrash, or I
> > hope it is, but re: poetics it is all rather retro. At the moment, as
far
> > as all that is concerned, my role model is Sylvia Townsend Warner, a
> Marxist
> > feminist epic fantasist with a wit I can't hope to rival...but mainly I
> > would like it to pay the rent.
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > A
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/5/04 9:14 AM, "Geraldine Monk" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > What did you get Patrick? The last post I saw from Ms Croggon was in
> 250
> > > BC. Nothing subjected with Gifted. There have been many emails going
> > > astray of late -even on lists some folks get and some don't. I
> certainly
> > > didn't get this one.
> > > Could you or Ms Croggon please explain.
> > > I'd hate to miss something important.
> > > G.
> >
> >
> >
> > Alison Croggon
> >
> > Editor, Masthead
> > http://www.masthead.net.au
> >
> > Home page
> > http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >
> > Blog
> > http://alisoncroggon.blogspot.com
>
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