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2008/5/26 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> The big problem
> I have with much
> current British poetry
> is that it is
> linguistically stingy.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 26 May 2008 08:39
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> Subject: Re: Some bits
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> A few weeks back there was a radio programme with a young black guy
> talking who'd been in prison doing time for drug related stuff. There
> was a course on acting available so he went along, reluctantly, and
> discovered Shakespeare. The guy said he found language and thus power
> over his life, that prison takes language away. He's an actor now and
> leads his own small company.
> What Shakespeare does, Roger, is give language: he was happened right
> at the beginnings of modern capitalism and early modern English and
> its like someone who has got into the linguistic bank before opening
> and is throwing money out to all and sundry.
> The big problem I have with much current British poetry is that it is
> linguistically stingy.
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