Anny Ballardini wrote:
>Am I right to think that you already sent this in say one or two years ago?
Why do I have the feeling I have already read it?<
Yes, quite right, although the latest e-mail version isn't quite the same,
the trouble with posting anything like this is that e-mail formatting
buggers up the original. It was posted in relation to the questions on the
thread, not in respect of any attempt at self-imposition, 'disinteredness',
as MacDiarmid said, 'oor profoundest word yet'.
It is helpful btw in replies to delete the original text except for parts
you wish to quote, people on digest, in particular, have a mess to wade
through, this is just a kindly point.
Meantime, as ever, I write as the only person subject to censorship on this
list of supposed avant-garde writers, perhaps the fact that a 'Brummie
illiterate' who has no academic qualifications nor no place in the world yet
can write and has read Bruno,
not just taken him down from the shelf, glancingly, I was a teenager when I
came across it all, doesn't fit in with the bourgeois pretensions of this
place.
Here's a quote, it's from a piece by the Brummie Bangladeshi poet Khaled
Hakim, the piece is called 'Letter for S' and begins on page 48 of the Foil
anthology, it goes:
"I got on the British Poetries site yesterday for the first time, to have
sprayed my sign in the pecking orders
the etiolation, the dues - why didn't I stick to wanking -"
So ye are known. That isn't just my opinion.
David Bircumshaw
Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
& Painting Without Numbers
http://www.chidesalphabet.org.uk
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