I certainly got the sense of Tom L, Robin.
And even more so with the new one, ta mate.
Doug
On 12-Jan-08, at 9:49 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> sorry, Robin, I don't understand this.
>>
>> (dense?) Janet
>>
>>> Looktit this way --
>>> could be worse,
>>> could be a paper tissue but.
>
> There not really much to it Janet (which may be the problem). An
> attempt to do what Tom Leonard was doing better in Six Glasgow
> Poems, part of which involved repeating cliches, and part of which
> was the question of just *how to transcribe.
>
> (Peter Cudmore has had the sad experience of subediting poets who
> refuse to use apostrophes, one of the signs [along with a seeming
> inability to articulate the term "dialect"] of veterans of the
> Glasgow Language Wars in the sixties.)
>
> I had somewhere in mind the lines in one of Tom's poems, "Nae use
> gaun roon like a hauf shut knife."
>
> Also may be influenced by my currently obsessing over how to
> distinguish urban from rural cant in English writing in the
> sixteenth century, and attempting to unpick the lexicography of
> Gilbert Walker's _Manifest Deceptions of Diceplay_, which is a
> really sad thing to do.
>
> Here's another version of the glasgow haiku (which may be worse
> still):
>
> Think you git problems son?
> naethin mair useless
> than a used paper hankie.
>
> Robin
>
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