Well cooking is quite a useful area education outside language more
necessary to a poet and skateboarding limbo dancing allotments pubs to name
just a few and I like custard tarts the sort with that nice brown stuff on
top
P -outside language more necessary to a poet
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Sent: 30 March 2010 08:45
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Subject: Re: oxford prof of poetry?
Yes, we looked at Nixon in China too (I've been continually doing courses on
music in the last couple of years as I can't think of many areas of
education outside language more necessary to a poet).
Hill has always displayed an acute ear for pararhyme. It is a subdued
ornament to his bleakness.
On 30 March 2010 07:58, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> She's a very fine librettist. Nixon in China is impressive too. Fwiw,
> I'm a big admirer of that translation of Brand - one of the few verse
> versions that actually works. No doubt they give each other prosodic
> advice.
>
> xA
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:51 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Yup, his second wife, since 1987, as far as I know they haven't
divorced.
> > Last I heard she'd become an Anglican chaplain at Trinity Cambridge. I
> was
> > looking at the text she did for Adams on a music course late last year:
> the
> > para-rhyming style reminded me of Hill's version of Brand.
> >
> > On 29 March 2010 23:51, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Was it? He's married to Alice Goodman? I had no idea.
> >>
> >> Not, mind you, that it has anything to do with anything. But she's
> >> practically a Communist!!!! She wrote about Mao and the PLO and
> >> everything!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM, David Bircumshaw
> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> > ... while it was Hill's wife who wrote the libretto for John Adams'
> >> morality
> >> > opera on the Achille Lauro ...
> >> >
> >> > On 29 March 2010 23:33, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Wait till they rediscover the accusations about Mercian Hymns
echoing
> >> Enoch
> >> >> Powell's speech in the Midland Hotel.
> >> >>
> >> >> Myself, I don't think Hill did intend a link, but anyone who goes
> around
> >> >> giving his books epigraphs by C.H.Sisson is living dangerously when
> Tom
> >> >> Paulin's around ...
> >> >>
> >> >> On 29 March 2010 22:39, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Wow. I mean, wow.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> "Violent new face of poetry"? One of the nation's "most divisive
> >> poets"?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Mind you, the whole article is a beat-up. That journalist got out
> the
> >> >>> mixmaster good and proper.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> xA
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Max Richards <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >> >>> wrote:
> >> >>> > Doug,
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > How could you read the Ind online and not tell us about this?! -
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> >
> >> >>>
> >>
>
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/is-this-the-viole
nt-
> >> >>> > new-face-of-poetry-at-oxford-1926988.html
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > Max
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> >> I just read this, but what does anyone over there know about
her?
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>>
> >>
>
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/a-life-of-rhy
me-
> >> >>> > kate-tempests-poetrymusic-fusion-1929779.html
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> >
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> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> David Bircumshaw
> >> >> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> >> >> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> >> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >> >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > David Bircumshaw
> >> > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> >> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> >> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> >> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> >> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >
>
>
>
> --
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>
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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