Desmond,
I'm glad we can now draw a line under our spat.
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:54:34 +0100, Desmond Swords
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>Cheers Jeff.
>
>You're right of course. We're all in the same race on this infinitesimal
>speck of what's almost nothingness in the cosmic scale, and none of
us, no
>matter who we are, will be remembered in a million years from now.
>
>That do we had was at the start of the year, and in the space of eight
>months, has been played out. From first spat to kiss and make up in
eight
>months. In the old days, it would have been cause for a life-long
dragged
>out petty grudge nursed in the pages of the poetry rags, with a few
hundred
>reading - whereas now with the web, we can connect humanly because
of the
>immediacy of it, and with far more potential eyes to perform in front
of.
>
>Because i have stubbornly stuck to my own interpretation of what
constitutes
>a poetic education and training - i still have another three years before
>the end of the course. In the old days, it being a 12 year run: that
means
>the past two years spamming speculative discourse, with all the
unreadable
>gloop and plethora of rubbish mistake-ridden texts, dumped here
there and
>anywhere poets gather - can be written off as juvenelia and
apprentice-work.
>
>From grade one Focloc in the first year, through MacFuirimid - Doss -
Cano -
>ClĂ, then Anruth in the sixth: to eigth year - all six grades below the
one
>we want to hit: Ollamh - Poetry Professor, graduating in year 12 as a
top
>bore who can talk as relevantly as any other who sets themself up as
poet.
>From Heaney to Silliman, we are all the same, essentially, i reckon.
>
>thanks very much.
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