Alison!!!!!!!!!! perhaps it will raise a great backlash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
My sympathies
'Ground control to uncle tom ' is a chilling line
P softlefty P
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poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alison Croggon
Sent: 26 January 2007 06:31
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Subject: How to be Orstrilian
It seems that misogyny and homophobia really make you a good bloke.
Otherwise you got no balls. Anyway, that's more or less what Patrick
McCauley says in today's Australian. (It being Australia Day, after
all).
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21119511-601,00.html
Who the hell decided to publish this crap and call it a poem? No
wonder poetry has such a bad name...Andrew Motion has _nothing_ on
this.
I am incredibly depressed.
Best
A
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