BI POetry
xcellent;)
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:08 PM, mairead byrne wrote:
> This is what I meant to send:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to try-out a new-name suggestion, or at least a new-
> abbreviation suggestion. As I've said on and off, and others
> agree, Britpo is not the best name for a list which focuses also on
> Irish poetry. So I was thinking
> (as a result of something Rupert said) of B & I Poetry. The B & I
> I'm thinking of is B & I Ferries, which brought me many's a time
> from Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead; maybe others here travelled on its
> luxurious decks, so flamboyant in morale, too. Anyway, it was a
> link between our countries, at the end of the dark ages. I like
> the suggestion too of traffic between countries being the
> significant thing, rather than nationality itself, especially a
> type of nationality where the smaller nation is subsumed. If
> people think this is an acceptable shift, we could ask Jiscmail to
> abbreviate the list as B & I Poetry, or B & I, or the B & I. The
> actual name British & Irish Poetry would remain unchanged. What do
> you think?
>
> Mairead
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