My brother was a member of the BNP. I know wherewith I speak.
Roger
On 7/15/08, Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what is the BNP?
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:14 PM, 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
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://nathanhondros.blogspot.com
>
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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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