Bircumshaw and Mr Swords on the same list - this is not going to work.
Tim A.
On 5 Jun 2009, at 11:19, Desmond Swords wrote:
> Yeah - Armitage's northern ordinariness, the slick tricks of
> alliterating
> verse, the whole conspiracy to keep out Bircumshaw and me by the
> poetry
> powers-that-be, the BBC, ABC, CBC, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, MTV, Disney,
> Astley,
> Fiona at the Poetry Review. Mick Schmidt, Christopher Ricks and
> cock-a-doodle Máel Dúin at the New Yorker
>
> ..s'just an appalling disgrace, travesty of justice, excluded by the
> unfair
> squares for bein a prosopographer who can perform in that role,
> deliniate
> tics 'n idiosyncrasies into the fully rounded drip, drip, drip of a
> perorating pontificator droning at length on any major to minor
> aspect of
> the craft - OUR craft, the shared Work of eternity and flying on
> that rhythm
> within we hear when listening intently to sky - sea - stone and soul
> yah..
>
> fuk yah
>
> Simons only in it fo da moany 'n gaw naw reet neice cuz he wuz
> unlike moi -
> a chancer makin it up - Gawain me hole, he didn't write that, he
> only had a
> goz and gawp 'n had it easy - infomercial for a dreary bore, Norfen
> git, i
> 'ate him for holdin me hostage last night in the hypno dripno tv la
> la leccy
> land of only this, only now, never then cuz - howz tha gonna work?
>
> ~
>
> Only joshin Dave, reponding free and full.
>
> i've not seen these tv poetry shows, apart from Wordworth. i keep
> meaning to
> watch it on BBC4 repeats, making a mental note to, but then
> forgetting
> entirely.
>
> There's what looks like a far more promising show, again i forgot to
> see it
> first time round but episode one and two are back top back on BBC4
> in the
> early hours of (this coming) Sunday morning.
>
> How the Celts Sved Britain.
>
> It looks at the period 400-800 AD, charting the influence of irish
> learning
> on post-Roman Britain.
>
> The presenter is a bit like Owen Sheers, young, attractive, a great
> career
> as a famous TV intellctual ahead of him.
>
> My favourite though is Judge Judy, who i think is the most level-
> headed of
> the bunch as she was a judge for 30 years before going into
> television, and
> she really is very wise. no one gets past her.
>
> Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
>
>
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