I'd go for B&I for what it's worth. It is a bit like D&G (that's Dolce and
Gabbana or Deleuze and Guattari - take yr pick).
which does date the list. it tries to look modern only after modern has gone
on somewhere else. ah well.
hard to know hisoroically if the list is late or early, that's assuming you
still beleive in all that linear time stuff, the tick tock. and of course
there's P&O ferries as well. and jetskis mostly go round in circles.
So B&I.
Could try selecting a logo by e-mail? that would be fun, and a strap line.
B&I - for poets who are going somewhere
B&I - it'll keep your poetry fresh as a sea breeze (thank you miekal)
B&I - for the mobile generation
there was an Ed Dorn poem which went something like (from memory) :
when you spend more
on defending the thing
than on the thing
you're defending
but Britpo is aboslutely dire, I've never even written it before and would
certainly never say it out loud, and B&I is fine. So thank you Mairead for
all your efforts.
love
Ian
>From: mairead byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: mairead byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: B & I
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:45:24 -0400
>
>Actually I like the ampersand. Kind of languagey. Also, go conjunction!
>Mairead
>
>
>On 10/10/06, cris cheek <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>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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