Thanks Roger. Highly entertaining. As for the right environment for
two year olds, Joanna, who bloody knows! They are a sponge, but hardy
souls for all that. Remember GTO? Maybe it is PTO - Poets Together
Outrageously.
Andrew
On 30/10/06, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind00&L=BRITISH-POETS&P=R6043&I=-3
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> "As to the alleged spat at Sparty Lee between JP and myself that I
> also keep getting a whiff of, let me set the record straight on that
> too. There was no violence . What happened was: I was living in the
> hills three or four miles away with my wife and young son, and the
> festival, took place at Barry MacSweeney's weekend cottage nearby.
> Although called a festival and that term would imply an audience there
> was non. As far as I remember the Morden Tower provided the only
> audience, and I'm sorry they didn't live up to Jeremy and John's
> expectations. "
>
> "Everyone was pissed at the MacSweeney week-end cottage, the
> atmosphere was congenial, and all the poets were giving performances
> that Jeremy was recording. My son, aged about two got restless at all
> the cerebral stuff and began chattering. Jeremy shouted "shut that
> fucking kid up" because he was 'spoiling' the recording. I thought the
> occasion was more interesting as a human situation (not quite as cosy
> as the old folk rollicking round the old piano) and that the
> mechanical recording was a side issue. Jeremy and MacSweeney obviously
> thought otherwise and so we left. When I got up the hill into my old
> Landrover I felt really angry and hurt, as I'd wanted to be there.
> Taking off the handbrake, kick-starting the jeep into second gear and
> accelerating I said to Connie "fuck him and his machines", and rammed
> Jeremy's car which was parked at the bottom of the hill. The front end
> was severely damaged and he drove around with it like that for a long
> time. That was it. I was stupid and mean to do it, Jeremy and
> MacSweeney were bad mannered and precious about 'recording the event
> for posterity' sans the whimpering impatience of nippers. "
>
> Roger
>
> On 10/30/06, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > This HAS to be apocryphal! -
> >
> > 'after the Cambridge Marxist-obscurantist poet Jeremy Prynne told the Newcastle
> > poet Tom Pickard to keep his young son quiet during a reading, Pickard went
> > outside and smashed his Land Rover into Prynne's half-timbered Morris Oxford
> > saloon.'
> >
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