I like the rhyme of 'loads' and 'Olds' Judy.
It reads like something by Patrick!
Best
Dave
2008/5/26 judy prince <[log in to unmask]>:
> "Mischievous" Dave, indeed! You've writ a lovely early near-snap, which
> mite go something like this:
>
> Fruit of The Workers Education Association
>
> The likeable Ms Fyffe read here last year
> wore dresses made to look crumpled
> and apparently cost loads
> chairs the Poetry Society
> prefers poets in the style of Billy Collins and Sharon Olds
> has a lovely Irish accent
> and is very much a Londoner
>
> what a charming person
> from another social planet
> I thought
>
> ~~~~~~
>
> Judy
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw"
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> Subject: Re: New beats (???)
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>
>>>> I notice no-one has actually said anything about the article in
>>>> question.
>>>
>>> I read it, dave -- blah, a list of names, and no quotations, so what's to
>>> say?
>>
>> I don't know, Rob, I was hoping someone might tell me.
>>
>> The likeable Ms Fyffe read here last year. She's very good with the
>> audience, wears dresses that are made to look crumpled and apparently
>> cost loads, chairs the Poetry Society, prefers poets in the style of
>> Billy Collins and Sharon Olds, has a lovely Irish accent and is very
>> much a Londoner. What a charming person from another social planet I
>> thought.
>> She was quite expensive: the funds were provided by a local branch of
>> the Workers Education Association which is being wound up, we were
>> given the money to pay for any reading, not specifically hers.
>> I can't help thinking there's a certain irony in that, what do you reckon?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> (mischievously)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> 2008/5/26 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>
>>>> I notice no-one has actually said anything about the article in
>>>> question.
>>>
>>> I read it, dave -- blah, a list of names, and no quotations, so what's to
>>> say?
>>>
>>>> Michael Hoffman of course has nothing to do with the class system. It
>>>> is natural that public school pupils figure so much in the culture
>>>> industry and, I repeat, has nothing to do with class.
>>>
>>> MH is indeed a class to himself. I once sat through a 30 minute workshop
>>> he
>>> gave, and spent 28 minutes of it writing notes for a poem. He was
>>> virtually
>>> inaudible, which was probably as well since the few phrases I caught
>>> would
>>> have made more sense if they had been unintelligible.
>>>
>>> On the evening of the same day, I actually managed to sit through a
>>> reading
>>> he gave. Again totally inaudible. Which was more than another member of
>>> this list who was with me did, preferring to leave at the interval
>>> spitting
>>> blood.
>>>
>>> Even Aged Etonians, so I'm told, prefer to cross the road rather than
>>> risk
>>> being accosted by him.
>>>
>>> As hard cases make bad law, let's just leave Michael Hoffman where he
>>> belongs.
>>>
>>> R.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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