Well the English are a species of British, Doug. An increasingly touted
explanation for all woes is the ball, which has only eight instead of 32
panels so doesn't have 'drag and spin' (according to Craig Johnson) and
won't do what players want it to do. What isn't been mentioned so much is
that this ill-conceived sphere was designed in ..
.. Loguhborough.
Btw someone mentioned to me that, even as we write, Carol Ann Duffy is
probably working on a poem about the England team's World Cup. Who said
things couldn't get worse?
On 19 June 2010 22:13, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I dont know, but am glad, at this moment, not to be. um. English (the team
> ent British izzit?)....
>
> Doug
>
> On 19-Jun-10, at 2:09 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> Question One:
>>
>> 'Boring, unimaginative, timid, cramped, predictable, toothless, inhibited,
>> terminally dull ..' is this excerpt from a description of a) the England
>> football team's performance against Algeria last night or b) a summary of
>> current British poetry?
>>
>> Question Two
>>
>> is there , native dullness apart, an underlying cause for the
>> similarities?
>>
>> --
>> (David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw
>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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>>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> because I want to die
>
> writing Haiku
>
> or, better,
>
> long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
>
> Phyllis Webb
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(David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
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The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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