Wow, Joanna, would you really get your teeth smashed in for reading
poetry aloud in the train - as a lady of, shall I say, mature years?
England must have become even worse than I feared in my most lurid
fantasies - I can't say I noticed anything particularly untoward during
my last visit, though (Feb 2005). Please tell me where to go next time
so I can wallow in hate & revulsion.
I actually associate a certain degree of both sexual and social
provocation with Denise Levertov, myself, all to the good, of course.
The calm attentiveness is certainly there too. But if you had read out
the bit about hairy wrinkled caves of the moon you might have stunned
them into silence.
Best
Martin
Joanna Boulter wrote:
> Thanks, Jill and Alison. Things can get a little hairy on that
> particular train -- should have known better and waited for the next one.
>
> I must admit, for a moment or two I wondered about trying to calm
> things down by reading aloud from the book of Jane Hirshfield's poems
> I'd bought at the reading. Her work has a quality of calm
> attentiveness about it, of the sort I associate with Denise Levertov.
> It might *just* have worked! but I'd have been far more likely to get
> my teeth smashed in, so regret to say I chickened out.
>
> best joanna
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Tangled, Snap
>
>
>> My sympathies Joanna. Sounds like the train from Marrickville to city
>> most days. You get used to it - but, gosh, some days you just don't
>> need it. I bet that bloke turns up on our line one day.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jill
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, October 27, 2005, at 01:19 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
>>
>>> My, Joanna! - it sounds like the train to Werribee -
>>>
>>> I've often thought that a major problem with politicians is that
>>> they don't
>>> use public transport. They would understand society better if they did.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> A
>>>
>>> On 27/10/05 9:24 AM, "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry, a bit discombobulated at the moment. Went up to Newcastle this
>>>> evening to hear Jane Hirshfield read, which was a marvellous
>>>> experience. On
>>>> the way back two different sets of drunks, one violent and the
>>>> other merely
>>>> very loud, had to be taken off the train by police at two different
>>>> stations. The loudest confided, fortissimo, that he was a Geordie
>>>> (i.e. from
>>>> Tyneside) Irishman who lived in the Village in New York, where he
>>>> was a
>>>> policeman who had killed ten men, and if the man he decided to sit
>>>> next to
>>>> didn't confess he would burn him. The guard asked me if I was all
>>>> right
>>>> (they were in the seat behind me), and when I said I thought so, he
>>>> disappeared for the next half-hour. Talk about an evening of
>>>> contrasts!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alison Croggon
>>>
>>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>>> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
>>>
>>>
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