> Does your public library order poetry books?
In theory, yes, that is to say it will request books off other libraries
(no, it will not purchase a specific book on demand) and as, for instance,
Geraldine's books would almost certainly be at the Poetry Library in London
one would think that through the Inter-Library scheme this would be simple.
In practice it is well nigh impossible as the Poetry Library is not part of
the Public Lending Library structure. What would happen is that the request
would have to sent first to all public libraries nationally, refused as not
in stock, only then submitted elsewhere, even if one knows exactly where the
book is available.
It might be worth mentioning here that the Poetry Library in London does
allow books out on loan direct but only to personal visitors so if you live
outside London forget it. This is unlike the much smaller Northern Poetry
Library in Morpeth which does loan books out via postal application and,
too, inferior to the set up in Scotland, where the Edinburgh or Glasgow main
centre has sub-branches in other towns.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
> Good, David, I am glad you have made piece with Geraldine! Though like
most
> I occasionally indulge in hurtful speech and writing, it's always a breath
> of fresh air not to get drawn in on that level.
>
> Does your public library order poetry books?
>
> Stephen
>
>
> > It's only an argument in an intellectual sense, Stephen, not the
seemingly
> > personal one that the phrasing 'a seeming perpetual one with Geraldine'
> > suggests.
> >
> > Can't buy the book me duck because I can't afford to buy new books: I
live
> > on minimum incapacity benefit these days.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
> >
> >
> >> David -
> >>
> >> If this is an argument with either me - and my ignorance of your
history -
> >> or a seeming perpetual one with Geraldine, I think it best that we not
> >> dribble in the dark - but that you buy the book, and then respond on a
> > more
> >> informed level to the real text at hand.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Stephen V
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> Her book from West House is Escafeld Hangings (complete with a CD).
> >>>> Mary had some big troubles (apparently) with the head of State, as I
> >>> suspect
> >>>> the majority of England - including no doubt both you and Geraldine -
> >>> these
> >>>> days with Blair who, nevertheless, holds his subjects to his and
George
> >>> W's
> >>>> suicidal war policies. I suspect there is a bit of ironic
metaphoric
> >>>> identification going on between M and G. Geraldine's response is to
> >>>> embroider syntax and sing as hard as she can thru the vehicle of Mary
> > and
> >>> a
> >>>> bunch of it is wonderfully goofy in an elevated kind of way.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Stephen. I fear the metaphor does not hold.
> >>>
> >>> Teflon Tony, thank God, is not the British Head of State, nor are we
> > +his+
> >>> subjects. He is the current +voice+ of power though. Mary's
imprisonment
> > and
> >>> woes were a direct result of the Machiavellian maneouvres of
Elizabethan
> >>> power politics, which are best not to contemplate at this time of the
> >>> morning (it's a little before 6 a.m. here). And, too, that she was a
> > female
> >>> ruler at the same time as England had one: disaster! in political
terms:
> > she
> >>> could marry an enemy!!! If the English monarch had been male at the
time
> >>> they'd have married them off faster than you can say Jack Robinson
> >>> (actually, nobody seems to say that any more). Also Mary had the
> > political
> >>> and social savoir-faire of a sheep outside a slaughterhouse.
> >>>
> >>> But if the metaphor runs to G in Blair's Britannia not being noticed
by
> >>> Sheffield as Mary was in imprisonment there, well, I can't say it
fits.
> >>> Ironic, yes, indeed.
> >>>
> >>>> Geraldine's response is to
> >>>> embroider syntax and sing as hard as she can thru the vehicle of Mary
> > and
> >>> a
> >>>> bunch of it is wonderfully goofy in an elevated kind of way.
> >>>
> >>> I bet she does! She's very good at that.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:09 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>> I gather it was not too glamorous - conditions et al - Ms. Mary in
> >>> prison
> >>>>> at
> >>>>>> the time.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sure, Stephen. By 'historical glamour' I meant that of the +name+
Mary
> >>> Queen
> >>>>> of Scots.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> And, I suspect, in terms of Geraldine living in contemporary
> >>>>>> Sheffield, not to glamorous either. Put M & G together, etc. & see
> > what
> >>>>>> happens (as poem) along with Blair as head of State. Yucks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Unlike some of G's prior or latter work I don't know the MQS stuff.
So
> >>>>> what's link- Mary of Scots, Geraldine, both a long time in, but not
> >>> from,
> >>>>> Sheffield, and Blair?
> >>>>
> >>>> Her book from West House is Escafeld Hangings (complete with a CD).
> >>>> Mary had some big troubles (apparently) with the head of State, as I
> >>> suspect
> >>>> the majority of England - including no doubt both you and Geraldine -
> >>> these
> >>>> days with Blair who, nevertheless, holds his subjects to his and
George
> >>> W's
> >>>> suicidal war policies. I suspect there is a bit of ironic
metaphoric
> >>>> identification going on between M and G. Geraldine's response is to
> >>>> embroider syntax and sing as hard as she can thru the vehicle of Mary
> > and
> >>> a
> >>>> bunch of it is wonderfully goofy in an elevated kind of way.
> >>>>
> >>>> I would quote but I am at work, David.
> >>>>
> >>>> Stephen V
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just curious.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dave
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:59 PM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> I guess of more interest is, apart from historical
> >>>>>>> glamour, what is the +significance+ re Sheffield of Mary Queen of
> >>> Scots
> >>>>>>> having been imprisoned there?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I gather it was not too glamorous - conditions et al - Ms. Mary in
> >>> prison
> >>>>> at
> >>>>>> the time. And, I suspect, in terms of Geraldine living in
> > contemporary
> >>>>>> Sheffield, not to glamorous either. Put M & G together, etc. & see
> > what
> >>>>>> happens (as poem) along with Blair as head of State. Yucks.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Being under Bush I cannot extend my sympathy too far! Yucks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Stephen V
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