The Rowley poems.
I seriously tremble to get between the fell and opposed opposites on this
thread, but this one is so stunningly obvious.
D'uh!
{You two going at it like a ferret up a leg can be quite unnerving!}
R.
[As no one seems to have noticed, the original title of this thread was a
concealed allusion to Villon's +Testament+, but bugger *that for a joke.
:-(
Rodent.]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Literary History (or Five for our Fiends)
> wot
>
> On 7/15/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> That makes two of us, Roger, because I haven't the faintest about what
>> you are going on about. You really did a bad one, you know, summoning
>> up the ghost of EP, since then I keep discovering people who will, at
>> the end of a conversation, suddenly mention the BNP as a desiderata.
>> As a poet, you should know how dangerous words can be.
>>
>> 2008/7/15 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>> > My dear boy, I have no idea what you're talking about.
>> >
>> > Roger
>> >
>> > On 7/15/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> Roger
>> >>
>> >> me ducks, I think you are being an unconscionable time a-flying on
>> >> this.
>> >>
>> >> Rowley indeed
>> >>
>> >> 2008/7/14 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>> >> > Dear Rowley also says he forgot to mention the colonies. He sends
>> >> > his
>> >> > apologies, however, he became rather incensed after that, more
>> >> > incensed than usual, something about leaving his bloody language
>> >> > alone, as it's his and nobody elses, but I couldn't make it out.
>> >> > I'll
>> >> > try again when he's dried out. He's usually not this bad so long
>> >> > after
>> >> > his weekly allowance.
>> >> >
>> >> > Roger
>> >> >
>> >> > On 7/14/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> >> Forgot to sign that post. It was from my dear, dear, dear friend,
>> >> >> Rowley Birkin QC and debarred.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 7/14/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> >> > bloody proles ... mumble mumble ... teach'em to read and what do
>> >> >> > they
>> >> >> > write? rubbish ... mumble mumble ... mumble .... ungrateful I
>> >> >> > call it
>> >> >> > .... might as well give a monkey a typewriter for all the good it
>> >> >> > will
>> >> >> > do .... ..... .... ..... rubbish people write today ... only
>> >> >> > people
>> >> >> > writing POETRY are my dear, dear, dear, Friends and that damn cat
>> >> >> > ....
>> >> >> > and some bloke in the 15th century .... mumble ... mumble ... and
>> >> >> > I
>> >> >> > was very, very, very drunk
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On 7/14/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> >> > > Although, like most, I can often make off the cuff remarks
>> >> >> > > about this
>> >> >> > > or that, I do hesitate to +seriously+ make big pronouncements
>> >> >> > > (don't
>> >> >> > > laugh) but I would (nervously) propose this:
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > that in the English language the last two decades have seen the
>> >> >> > > greatest production of ersatz poetry in the known history of
>> >> >> > > human
>> >> >> > > civilization. I can imagine that more bad poetry has been
>> >> >> > > written and
>> >> >> > > published in English in these years than that of the combined
>> >> >> > > total of
>> >> >> > > all other cultures that have ever existed.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > It's a humbling thought. What it is to live in such great days.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > Tsunami.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > --
>> >> >> > > 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
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> >> >> > "I began to warm and chill
>> >> >> > to objects and their fields"
>> >> >> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> >> >> "I began to warm and chill
>> >> >> to objects and their fields"
>> >> >> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> >> > "I began to warm and chill
>> >> > to objects and their fields"
>> >> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> > "I began to warm and chill
>> > to objects and their fields"
>> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "I began to warm and chill
> to objects and their fields"
> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>
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