Corrupting of what? Just out of curiosity...
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM, David Bircumshaw
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> Really?
> Anyhow I was thinking of corrupting in a wider sense.
>
> 2009/4/24 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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>> David B
>> I am prepared to risk being corrupted by a grant gift donation bursury
>> bequest stipend subsidy boon honorarium etceven backhanders
>> Of course I do get a pension gawd bless em!
>> P the bravest brave brave
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
>> Sent: 24 April 2009 06:54
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: More poems from the challenge
>>
>> I have to say, and this isn't directed specifically at Heather, that I've
>> come to feel that grants in poetry have in many respects a corrupting
>> effect, certainly when it's a matter of grants for writing poetry (where
>> state money might be of use is in marketing and distribution and printing,
>> that is to say to publishers)
>> I don't work these days, because of disability, but I know I wrote more,
>> and
>> better, when I was working full-time than now.
>>
>> 2009/4/24 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
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>> > I also congratulate you, Heather, on your arts council grant. That's
>> > terrific! Andrew
>> >
>> > 2009/4/24 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> >
>> > > Congratulations on the grant, heather.
>> > >
>> > > I have followed your many-sided takes day by day, & certainly the
>> > > discipline of it has been rewarding for you.
>> > >
>> > > Doug
>> > > On 23-Apr-09, at 9:31 AM, Heather Taylor wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Here's a couple new poems for you as part of the challenge - I also
>> just
>> > >> got
>> > >> an Arts Council grant to write my new collection! Hoorah! I may post
>> a
>> > >> few
>> > >> pieces up here as I work on it for people's advice...
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > Douglas Barbour
>> > > [log in to unmask]
>> > >
>> > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Latest books:
>> > > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> > > Wednesdays'
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h
>> tml
>> > >
>> > > There's the wind and the rain
>> > > And the mercy of the fallen
>> > > Who say they have no claim to know what's right
>> > > Dar Williams
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Andrew
>> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>> David Bircumshaw
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> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
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> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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