Yes, Patrick, it was wide. It's so much nicer to have room to breathe.
2009/4/24 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Dave that was pretty wide to me!!how wide do you want to go?
> P:-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 24 April 2009 08:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: More poems from the challenge
>
> Really?
> Anyhow I was thinking of corrupting in a wider sense.
>
> 2009/4/24 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > 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]>
> >
> > > 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/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > 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
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David Bircumshaw
"Nothing can be done in the face
of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
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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