Armand Schwerner called it the "accidental curriculum."
At 04:48 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote:
>I just came across this rather appaeling interview with Hill from last year
>at:
>
>http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/geoffrey-hill/
>
>I love his notion of 'serendipitous reading' as a prefered method of
>self-teaching for poets - of course I'm biased because that's exactly how I
>taught myself - and share his distaste of creative writing courses - and I
>like too his notion of opposing 'plutonic anarchy' - with all the dark
>overtones that plutonic has - the armed hell of money.
>
>On 30 March 2010 08:45, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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-violent-
> >> >> >>> > 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-rhyme-
> >> >> >>> > kate-tempests-poetrymusic-fusion-1929779.html
> >> >> >>> >
> >> >> >>> >
> >> >> >>> >
> >> >> >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> >>> > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail:
> >> >> http://www.netspace.net.au
> >> >> >>> >
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> --
> >> >> >>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
> >> >> >>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> >> >> >>> 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/
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > 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/
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
> >> >> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> >> >> 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/
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
> >> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> >> 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/
> >
>
>
>
>--
>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/
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of
Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in
English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
Nation
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