The nice train on Douglas's cover? For general info, this is a pic of
Locomotion, the first railway loco, built in 1825, which for years stood on
Darlington Railway Station and is mentioned in Douglas's book. Roger was
complaining that he couldn't get the pic to reproduce clearly enough or look
the way he wanted it to look, or maybe he just couldn't exclude extraneous
gubbins; he'll doubtless explain when he gets back from work tonight. So he
went out with the camera in hopes of a suitable substitute.
INP is Independent Northern Publishers, an association of small presses
based in the north-east who work together to organise aspects of publishing
that aren't really feasible for any of them alone, like international
ordering and credit-card payment. I know Bloodaxe is in this area, but it's
not included as it doesn't count as a small press compared with the rest of
us, and maybe not at all. So if you're interested in having a look, try
http://www.northernpublishers.co.uk/ But I don't think "Durham Poems" will
be on that site as yet, though it's on ours.
I'd be more than half prepared to believe in the green ink etc turning up in
something someone's written using the Fleur Adcock as a starting point. It
doesn't sound altogether unlikely as a workshop exercise.
Robin, hope you and Mark have a good get-together --
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: help!green ink-beware Kerio firewall
>> Robin's the one who knows his Stevie Smith. Is he in or out of the teapot
>> today? joanna
>
> Half and half, and trying to get the house redded up for Mark Weiss
> arriving
> in four hours's rime.
>
> I did sort-of react to Pat the Man on Stevie Smith -- +Novel on Yellow
> Wallpaper+. But no, not her.
>
> I *suspect* (with reservations) that the green ink syndrome (as opposed to
> green tea which -- ask Roger -- goes back to an odd ghost story by
> M.R.James) derives ultimately from Oscar Wilde.
>
> Whatever, it's Deeply Pre-Raphaelite.
>
> Or is it?
>
> If you run a google on <green ink poetry>, it;s quire amazing what
> appears.
>
> Oy's dpong my brains in and I wish someone would give a hard answer.
>
> {Equally, I wish someone would fix the way my computer keyboard is
> currently transposing letters.}
>
> Soft answers would include Jenny Joseph and Fleur Adcock. Cyril Connolly
> and enemies of promise? Galway Kinnell?
>
> But as ro rhe particular poem ...
>
> ... off to write a cheque for Pounds Seven 50 (UK) before climbing
> back into the teapot for Douglas Clark's Durban Pomes.
>
> But what happened to that Nice Train that was supposed to be on the cover,
> and what is INP?
>
> Pixilated from Loughborough.
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: help!green ink-beware Kerio firewall
>>
>>
>> > Thanks everyone did stevie smith write something like it? Green ink did
>> > rather stick in the mind (however an ancient mind
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