Sorry one and all,
I guess this e-mail may not make much sense to you all! It shouldn't have
ended up arriving in TheWorks writes
Bob
who's rushing about and not getting the right messages to the right places
today.
And who's worried where the rest might have ended up!!!



>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Sub: After Scything the Bulb Fields
>Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:18:40 +0000
>
>Hi Christina,
>I don't think it adds anything to the poem by knowing just where an
>experience like this would happen - but I always find myself thinking:
>bulbs, Monguls, Altai... Where????? So the first reaading relies more on
>the
>drama the poem elicits rather than the information it includes - and that's
>good, because I find I'm wanting to read it again (and not dismiss it while
>thinking: I dunno what this is about...)
>Once I've thought about the clues the poem gives a little I start thinking
>about poppies and the drug trade... (but I don't know if they play zithers
>where they grow poppies, I'm just assuming they do!)
>Then I start wondering again...
>The poem's an enigma to me. I keep thinking, "If I knew more about what's
>behind this poem..."
>However I do feel the person's described well and I interpret the last line
>to include the notion that the character only gets a pittance from what
>he's
>grown (with the inference that other people get millions of euros!). So
>then
>I find I go back to the flute he's playing and the two voices he has and
>start to think, "Yeah, there's things going on in this poem."
>Complex, but canny.
>Bob
>
>

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