How about throwing bricks at poetry?
2008/10/30 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dave take up bricklaying and poetry !!!
> Bricklaying courses for the more mature student
> The answer
> Cheers Patrick
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 30 October 2008 01:01
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> Subject: Re: anthologists
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> I'll try to elaborate something Candice: of late I have developed a
> morbid fear of being seen as A Poet. Crudely put, among middle-class
> people it tends to awake a feeding frenzy in psychological vampires,
> while among lower-class people it triggers nihilistic crudity in
> limerick rhymes. I hate the pretension of vocation, for me it's a
> burden I wish I never had, I would much rather have been a bricklayer,
> for example, like my dad, at least it's a honest job. Poetry is
> magnificent, at times, yes, and it also sucks, it's full of phonies,
> it's all too much a picture of Us, the supremely misnamed homo sapiens
> sapiens.
>
> The very crude snap I posted earlier has perked my interest again: I
> would like to find a way to write rant that is aesthetically
> satisfying at the same time too, a kind of formalisation of fury,
> examples from the last century, such as Howl or the Usura Canto don't
> really work, the Jacobeans could do it at times, but that was their
> language, so I'm going to plot the development of a new form: the
> Gibberhell (I've decided to drop the the final 'e') More later.
>
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
> 2008/10/30 MC Ward <[log in to unmask]>:
>> As you like, David, though on a Universal scale maybe we should be talking
> about remaining terrors.
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>> Bestest,
>> Candice
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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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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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