Always the same bitterness, always the same failure to do anything
other than bitch, always the victim, always the self-pity, the bile,
the narrow ressentiment.
On 19 Apr 2005, at 01:09, david.bircumshaw wrote:
> Presumably the anonymous David you quote is Mr Kennedy, wow to people
> who have friends in Bloodaxe. I am sad to say this, all round,
> I am starting to see the poetry scene as something I do not want to
> know about, for instance, most of your posts consist of flaff
> for the small business called West House Books that you and your
> husband run, that you and he portray yourselves as somehow
> avant-garde seems to be related to how to get influence, what I get
> the impression of is another mafia, it was very telling that you
> advertised a reading consisting of DK, Alison Croggon, the dictator of
> PoetryEtc who is allowed to destroy people in public, like
> her supporter Les Murray, and the peddler of imitation blank verse ala
> Thom Gunn Chris Jones . There's a real innovative writer for
> you.
>
> I think this all stinks. I think the poetry scene stinks. I have other
> ideas and they won't involve the sad status games. wanna be
> 'disturbing' wanna be 'disruptive'? well watch this space.
>
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
> & Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geraldine Monk" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:50 AM
> Subject: Fw: Prynne
>
>
>> Re non-appearance on The Verb, Ian Mc tells me they wanted the
>> feature to coincide with the new Bloodaxe but it wasn't out yet.
>> When it comes out, then they'll do it.
>> cheers
>> David
>>
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