No, I definitely haven't dared to look yet, sweetness and light, now you've
told me I am going to go round with a blazing fear of page 53, as well as
eating mince pies on Christmas Day.
My point is, though, considering the amount of funding and support the
project has, how do they manage to make such a balls up of it, I could drink
20 pints of cider a day for a month beforehand and still do a better job by
myself.
Anyhow, Umi is now out of hospital, she's a bit fazed still, but when she
came down to the Phoenix last night she got a standing round of applause,
the great thing about all this is that it has brought the best out of
people, utter ne'er do wells and hard knocks have suddenly all shown that
they are human, there is a Dog after all.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: Robin Hamilton - Pacts and Conjurations - New and Selected
Poems
> Dear Chopped Rodent
>
> I got my copy of Speaking Words in the post today, I am quite bemused at
> that how an anthology with so much financial support manages to look like
> the ultimate piece of crap,
Look, honneybunch, what you're clutching in your hot sweaty little hand is a
+rescue+ attempt by Jonathan Taylor -- the original sent to the printer was
MUCH worse.
By a factor of three.
:-(
And I never actually +taught+ Jon -- dear god in hell, no one I taught could
screw it up quite *that* royally.
[Oh dear christ, I did teach Debs, and she edited it ... ]
And what are you complaining about? You have four poems in the Lunatic
Fiasco.
> I was showing it to several European persons
> tonight and they were bewildered at the ability of the English to make
> rubbish out of something. My own poems haven't suffered too much - one
> prose
> poem has been printed as centered, while another poem has a dropped line
> that isn't supposed to be there, but it could be worse. I haven't dared
> yet
> look at yours in case they might have been butchered.
Oh BOY, you +don't+ want to know.
Look at the top of page of Page 53 -- not often that I'm tempted to indulge
in projectile vomiting, but that pulled me close to it.
On the other hand, it's £4.50 post free, you have four poems in it, and the
stories by Jonathan and Mystie Hood ain't that bad. And Mark Pullinger has
a poem in it too.
Worth the money, really.
R.
(Though god knows why they used a sans serif typeface -- that's the ultimate
in sad.)
> CONGRATULATIONS on your book.
>
> All the Best
>
> Dave
:-P
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