and illness which, although it does
> diminish her ability to conceptualise,
should be 'an illness which .... does not diminish'
typing on the run again
best
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: Local Poetic Culture
> A few further discriminations, Rebecca:
>
> recently I wrote lauding a reading by people who'd survived the mental
> health system, praising it for their courage to find some expression
despite
> their lack of articulacy. Again I posted a poem a while back by a friend
of
> mine who suffers from cerebral palsy and illness which, although it does
> diminish her ability to conceptualise, does affect the language centre of
> the brain and thereby the ability to put concepts into words. In both
> instances, although the result is not 'poetry' it is something that is
> humanly authentic and, in my book, worthy of support.
>
> But the balancing act in discrimination is to differentiate such from the
> inanity of consumer culture in which poetry becomes rhyming doggerel
> presided over by the Muse of Christmas cards.
>
> The work of the English poet Peter Reading is an interesting example of a
> writer embattled in the clash of his aesthetic with the
anti-intellectualism
> of popular culture: this puts some odd strains on his writing (for
example,
> one critic has accused him of projecting a kind of right-wing agenda,
> although the poet is most certainly not so)
>
> Best
>
> dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Local Poetic Culture
>
>
> > Ok, Dave, call me a skeptic, but this is getting a bit far-fetched,
Dodo,
> and all,
> > maybe I've been on the internet too long but this being 'skinned' sounds
a
> bit
> > like playing the 'they're (could just as easily be 'he' or 'she', not to
> discriminate
> > among pronouns) after me' to the hilt, and, well, does this K. Barry
> _exist_? and
> > what 'local' poetic culture? you mean this small village where they like
> to eats
> > birds?
> >
> > Well, sorry, if I'm not taking this seriously enough. But I like dodos,
> who says
> > they're extinct?
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Rebecca
> >
> > ---- Original message ----
> > >Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:45:34 -0000
> > >From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Subject: Local Poetic Culture
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >Slightly recovered here now, as matters have now risen to the level of
> > >apparent death-threats to me, or at least being 'cut up' or 'bled' or
> > >'skinned' by persons unknown. I might re-iterate that behind all this
was
> my
> > >lack of veneration for a local poet, who, I must add, was in now way
> > >directly responsible for what developed, and is from all reports quite
> > >appalled by it all, but my original crime, which has now been
compounded
> > >from talking too loud without respect to ruining a drug-dealer's pitch
> and
> > >trade in our dear arts centre, hence the alleged threats (if real)
> > >
> > >but here's an example of the maestro's work, for not liking which
> > >sufficiently I have been hit, threatened, insulted, barred, vilified
and
> > >generally trod upon:
> > >
> > >The Dodo
> > >
> > >It's sad the dodo is extinct
> > >when once the creature winked and blinked
> > >and in a manner so succinct;
> > >
> > >on that far-off Mauritius isle
> > >the sailors treated dodos vile -
> > >were only out to make a pile
> > >
> > >they introduced domestic pets
> > >and caught the dodo in their nets,
> > >on its survival hedged their bets
> > >
> > >and, growing grossly overweight -
> > >its diet got in such a state -
> > >ship's crews ate dodos off a plate!
> > >
> > >With quaint physique it might have filled
> > >the place of some bright bird that trilled
> > >of slimmer, more athletic build
> > >
> > >but that was not to be the case -
> > >odd beaks and feet, and funny face,
> > >it's disappeared without a trace!
> > >
> > >from 'Building New Bridges'
> > >
> > >copyright K. Berry 2000.
> > >
> > >
> > >best
> > >
> > >Dave
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