I still have mine, Dave, & while I can understand all your qualifiers,
I certainly found it one of the more intriguing anthologies from
Britain.
And fun for its polemics....
Doug
On 30-May-09, at 4:04 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> Or even:
>
> Having long ago lost my copy of this interesting/repulsive,
> seminal/insignificant, funny/humourless 1996 anthology I was struck
> that
> yesterday, when I regained a copy, it was not in an independent
> bookshop
> (what are they in Britain?) nor a second-bookshop but in a charity
> shop.
> Interesting refuge for poetry in post-neo-Thatcherite-Blarite
> Padel-with-security-guards (see the Guardian on the Hay Literary
> festival)
> little bankrupt britain methought.
>
> (I love it when I make a blunder in a post and immediately have to
> reply to
> myself. I suppose it might be a kind of failsafe: in case nobody else
> responds!)
>
>
>
> 2009/5/30 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I long ago lost my copy of this interesting/repulsive,
>> seminal/insignificant, funny/humourless 1996 anthology I was struck
>> that
>> yesterday, when regained a copy, it was not in an independent
>> bookshop (what
>> are they in Britain?) nor a second-bookshop but in a charity shop.
>> Interesting refuge for poetry in post-neo-Thatcherite-Blarite
>> Padel-with-security-guards (see the Guardian on the Hay Literary
>> festival)
>> little bankrupt britain methought.
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> "Nothing can be done in the face
>> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Nothing can be done in the face
> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> 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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