Should poetry be written by atheists? I mean, those godless fucks
don't deserve the air they breath or any part of life on this world
and they can't write poetry and they're out to kill us all and they
can't stop us because we are the REAL HUMANS. I mean, they don't
BELIEVE IN THE ONE TRUE GOD. AND WE HAVE TO BELIEVE IN A CHRISTIAN GOD
because we have to kill muslims. AMIDOINITRITE?
Roger
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ha, yes. No more books for me, also. In fact, tonight I'm going out in
> sequins to dance the fandango (beware, Andrew).
>
> But seriously, whatever the readership of poetry might be (I have no idea
> how large a group it is, or even who they might be, apart from a few of my
> friends) it can only be damaged when its members are described as boring
> perverts. Boring perverts? Almost as rediculous as fascinating purists.
>
> Should poetry be exciting?
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Nathan, I'm sure you're not as uninteresting as Armitage's recent
>> 'translation' of the Gawayne poem seems to be, from what little I've
>> read of it. Not that I'm going to buy the book, after all, why should
>> I, only boring people buy books, by his argument. And I'm certainly
>> not going to take it out from the library, only geeks in specs go
>> there.
>>
>> 2008/5/15 Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]>:
>> > I can't claim to be a purist or a pervert, so I must be utterly
>> > uninteresting. And I despise party games.
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David Bircumshaw <
>> [log in to unmask]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> And poets lose faith in all their Imaginary Friends.
>> >>
>> >> You get Simon Armitage:
>> >>
>> >> 'Firstly, bookish people imagine themselves as purists, but are
>> >> actually perverts, belonging to a deviant culture'
>> >>
>> >> (So that explains Larkin's private library)
>> >>
>> >> 'Poetry continually runs the risk of being unexciting because of its
>> >> continual attempts to appeal to unexciting people - people who enjoy
>> >> reading - an essentially passive, silent and solitary activity'
>> >>
>> >> From 'Re-Writing the Good Book' reprinted 'Strong Words', Bloodaxe,
>> 2000.
>> >>
>> >> The essay begins with an imaginary game with Christmas cards and you
>> >> get party tricks as a governing metaphor in some of Armitage's poems.
>> >> So you have the poet here as someone who wants to have lots of friends
>> >> at Poly.
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >>
>> >> Dave
>> >>
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>> >> 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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>> 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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