Yes, Doug, 'making tea'. Ahhh...
The not so risible indeed frightening things are that the author of that
atrocity used to be a capable writer while there are people very organised
people heavily supported people who want to make that kind of writing a
standard and woe betide anyone who disagrees with them. And I mean woe.
On 16 April 2010 15:39, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'subtle rhymes' indeed, Dave, especially on 'poetry'.
>
> I was going to wonder at the final sentence in the ad Alison posted for us,
> but....
>
> Doug
>
> On 15-Apr-10, at 11:30 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> Synchronicity notebook: I just logged on musing how things that have been
>> happening in some towns in Britain (such as Brighton and Leicester)
>> clearly
>> represent attempts to fix poetry into some kind of definable 'revenue
>> stream', that very phrase floating through my thoughts, and yes then this.
>> There are definitely 'ideas' about.
>> I think the Cultural Olympiad in Britain will be an occasion of horror for
>> anyone with the slightest affection for the poor cowering discounted muse.
>> Thanks for that, Alison, (:)), as a favour in return, here's an example of
>> what they can turn poets into here. I love the radical use of dialect (who
>> needs Nabati?) and the subtle rhymes:
>>
>
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