I hoped my qualifiers were in the spirit of Iain Sinclair's witty polemic
and introduction, Doug.
2009/5/30 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
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> 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.html
>
> Swept snow, Li Po,
> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
> to the road that hies to office
> away from home.
>
> Lorine Niedecker
>
--
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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