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
>
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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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