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-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
Sent: 08 November 2010 08:06
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
That's a really good idea Patrick - you should tell Mr Biscuit the
Chancellor.
On 8 November 2010 07:55, Patrick McManus
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Well they will stop future elections as a cost saving
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Mark Weiss
> Sent: 08 November 2010 03:10
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
>
> All part of the Tory plan never to be elected again.
>
> At 06:11 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
> >Actually I believe the new Jobseekers joint will specialise in teaching
> >basic numeracy and, guess what word, yup, literacy. The librarians should
> >really appreciate that. As well as the four week streetcleaning holidays
> now
> >planned.
> >
> >On 7 November 2010 23:03, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Who can bring books with them to read while they wait.
> > >
> > >
> > > At 05:51 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
> > >
> > >> Here in Leicester the former Central Library is going to become a
> > >> Jobseeker's Centre, which will be very useful for the redundant
> > >> librarians.
> > >>
> > >> On 7 November 2010 17:59, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > And all of those lovely buildings waiting for other uses! Imagine
> how
> > >> many
> > >> > skateboard courses would fit in the British Library.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > At 12:22 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Library sales are brilliant but you very soon come up against the
> > >> reason
> > >> >> why
> > >> >> public libraries are needed in the first place. While every time I
> go
> > >> into
> > >> >> our local vanishing asset I am reminded of old ladies who amass
> stray
> > >> >> cats.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On 7 November 2010 14:53, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> > On a seriuous note (when am I not serious?), there are going to
> be
> > >> some
> > >> >> > great library sales.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > At 03:25 AM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >> It sounds to me like a lot of interests see money is
dismantling
> > >> >> libraries
> > >> >> >> and are determined to make it an 'inevitable process'. There
> will,
> > >> of
> > >> >> >> course, be no end of 'writers' after their slice of the action.
> As
> > >> the
> > >> >> >> books
> > >> >> >> disappear so the local laureates, book doctors and language
> workers
> > >> >> >> thrive.
> > >> >> >> I'm expecting the advent of Writers-in-Residence in Jobcentres.
> > >> >> >> I suppose on the bonus side to all this in the long run there
> won't
> > >> be
> > >> >> an
> > >> >> >> obligation for all poets to pretend to be left-wing so the
> natural
> > >> >> animals
> > >> >> >> can revert to their true colours. It must be such a strain on
> them,
> > >> all
> > >> >> >> the
> > >> >> >> pretence, the poor things.
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> On 6 November 2010 11:39, Roger Collett <
> > >> [log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> wrote:
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> > Thanks Dave.
> > >> >> >> > Sounds like the prelude to Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> > Roger Collett
> > >> >> >> > Arrowhead Press
> > >> >> >> > http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> > >> >> >> > "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> > >> >> >> > Jules de Gaultier
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
> > >> >> >> > [log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:26 AM
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> > Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> > Drat. It works in Facebook and I tried it out in the mail
> before
> > >> >> >> posting -
> > >> >> >> >> try this:
> > >> >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> >>
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
>
>
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=414
>
052&c=1<http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&story
code=414%0A052&c=1>
> > >> >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> >> or if not go to http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/ click
> > >> 'more
> > >> >> >> news'
> > >> >> >> >> and
> > >> >> >> >> look for a story dated 4th November called 'Time to shelve
> the
> > >> book
> > >> >> >> habit'
> > >> >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> >> On 6 November 2010 11:12, Roger Collett <
> > >> >> [log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> >> wrote:
> > >> >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> >> Yeah, but it's been imprisoned. I can't open the link
> anyway.
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>> Roger Collett
> > >> >> >> >>> Arrowhead Press
> > >> >> >> >>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
>
>
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> ---
> > >> >> >> >>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> > >> >> >> >>> Jules de Gaultier
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
> > >> >> >> >>> [log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:09 AM
> > >> >> >> >>> Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>> Hmmm ...
> > >> >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>> historically inapt.
> > >> >> >> >>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>> On 6 November 2010 10:35, Roger Collett <
> > >> >> [log in to unmask]
> > >> >> >> >
> > >> >> >> >>>> wrote:
> > >> >> >> >>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>> Hmmm....
> > >> >> >> >>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> I think this could do with a dose of The Spanish
> Inquisition.
> > >> >> >> >>>>> "You never expect The Spanish Inquisition!!!"
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> Roger Collett
> > >> >> >> >>>>> Arrowhead Press
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
>
>
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> ---
> > >> >> >> >>>>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against
> reality."
> > >> >> >> >>>>> Jules de Gaultier
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
> > >> >> >> >>>>> [log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:36 AM
> > >> >> >> >>>>> Subject: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> Scene: A Monty Python launderette which is also a
> domestic
> > >> >> living
> > >> >> >> >>>>> room.
> > >> >> >> >>>>> On
> > >> >> >> >>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>> a
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> sofa sit Terry Jones and Eric Idle in drag as
> hair-piled-high
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> housewives
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> with aprons, egg-stained cardigans and rolling pins.
> > >> >> >> >>>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> Housewife One (con falsetto) : 'I'm sick of all this
> > >> Jean-Paul
> > >> >> >> Sartre,
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> what's on the box?' (looking at a washing machine)
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> Housewife Two (tweaking moustache, basso profundo) : '
> Just
> > >> >> Bloody
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> Repeats.
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> As Joyce said ' (voice changing to falsetto) 'History is
> the
> > >> >> >> nightmare
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> from
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> which I am trying to awake. Or ...'
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> (both in unison): 'It's - Yet Again - The Dissolution of
> The
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> Monasteries
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> Show' :
> > >> >> >> >>>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>>
> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41
> > >> >> >> >>>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>>
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> --
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen
> whistling"
> > >> >> >> >>>>>> 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 Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> > >> >> >> >>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen
> whistling"
> > >> >> >> >>>> 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 Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> > >> >> >> >> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> > >> >> >> >> 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 Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> > >> >> >> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> > >> >> >> 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/
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> > >> >> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely
> concatenation
> > >> of
> > >> >> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word,
> and
> > >> >> through
> > >> >> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part,
> Weiss'
> > >> >> > fragments are like Chekhov's short stories-the more that gets
> left
> > >> out,
> > >> >> the
> > >> >> > more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the
> various
> > >> >> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure
> Mark
> > >> >> Weiss.
> > >> >> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a
> pure
> > >> >> musical
> > >> >> > threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a
person,
> a
> > >> >> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the
> poem."
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> > >> >> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> > >> >> >
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> --
> > >> >> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> > >> >> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> > >> >> 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/
> > >> >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> > >> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation
> of
> > >> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and
> > >> through
> > >> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part,
Weiss'
> > >> > fragments are like Chekhov's short stories-the more that gets left
> out,
> > >> the
> > >> > more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the various
> > >> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark
> > >> Weiss.
> > >> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a
pure
> > >> musical
> > >> > threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> > >> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the
poem."
> > >> >
> > >> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> > >> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> > >> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> > >> 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/
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> > > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> > >
> > >
> > > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> > > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and
> through
> > > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss'
> > > fragments are like Chekhov's short stories-the more that gets left
out,
> the
> > > more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the various
> > > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark
> Weiss.
> > > His use of the fragment is both elegant and
> > bafflingly clear, a pure musical
> > > threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> > > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
> > >
> > > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> > > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> >"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> >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/
>
>
>
> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>
>
> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a
> lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the
> poet alive in every sense of the word, and
> through every one of his senses. Instead of
> missing a beat or a part, Weiss' fragments are
> like Chekhov's short stories-the more that gets
> left out, the more they seem to contain. One can
> hear echoes from all the various
> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its
> core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment
> is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
> musical threnody.[it] opens a window, not only
> into a mind, but a person, a personality, this
> human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>
> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>
--
(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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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