I forgot to mention the keyword Intelligent Design which anyone with an
elementary knowledge of biology knows is ridiculous.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Geoffrey Hill: The Orchards of Syon
>I have a bad feeling about Warwick at the moment, although my niece
>graduated there, cos Steve Fuller, the Sociology prof is giving evidence in
>support of Behe at the Kansas evolution trial. These people who oppose the
>Enlightenment are very much concentrated in Sociology departments where
>they argue that Science is just another discourse.
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Geoffrey Hill: The Orchards of Syon
>
>
> I saw Hill at Warwick University, where lots of other academic types
> had also come to see him (there was some conference on, which I wasn't
> part of). So I went and I stood on my own, and I left on my own, and
> shortly after that I gave up my PhD on Hill altogether. I think the
> clincher was standing in line to have my copy of Speech! Speech!
> signed, and the chap in front of me saying to Hill that he was writing
> a thesis on him, and could he please inscribe the book with something
> encouraging like "don't give up! love, G.H.". Poor fellow, I wish him
> no ill will, but a sort of terrible self-disgust welled up in me at
> that moment. I did not confide my own aspirations to the great man: I
> told him that I had liked the book very much, thanked him for signing
> it, and left it at that.
>
> Hill himself was quite unlike the burly, black-cloaked figure
> declaiming through clenched teeth that one might have been expecting
> (although he is quite big). There was a touch of the music hall
> performer about him, in fact; he made a great show of drinking a glass
> of water. Quite a musical voice - he was *performing* the work, and
> its voices - so by turns discursive, lecturing, declamatory,
> soliloquising and so on. He got quite a few laughs, especially out of
> the material from Speech! Speech! People do rather miss the comedy in
> Hill (I miss it myself, in much of The Orchards of Syon, although it
> has its moments). There was also, this being a room full of academics,
> a fair amount of scribbling in notebooks as he brought the new stuff
> out. Not my idea of how you listen to poetry, but then I was cribbing
> from him on a deeper level. Or at least that was what I wanted to tell
> myself.
>
> Dominic
>
> On 10/25/05, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> You've seen him read? Wow!
>>
>> What's he like as a reader? I mean, rhetorical, soliloquising, or a twist
>> between incantatory and vicious -- I could imagine any of those styles
>> fitting with the work.
>>
>> joanna
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: Geoffrey Hill: The Orchards of Syon
>>
>>
>> I saw Hill read some of the Orchards of Syon poems before they were
>> published. They came across well in that context. I must admit though
>> that the sequence doesn't really grab me - all those flame-pelts of
>> denuded hawthorn, self-perjuring / arbiters of contrition | revamping
>> their perdurance...
>>
>> Dominic
>>
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