Scotland and north of England. That's real snow potentially.
Being brought to a stop after a foot or so of snow in a southern city is
just damn stupid.
On the way down hill from the station last night, I met a car coming
towards me - on the pavement.
I delivered a modest telling off and the driver said well he didnt know
did he - how was he supposed to know?
It's not just experience
L
On Wed, December 1, 2010 17:21, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Carlos is snowed in in Glasgow, having a great time but teeth chattering.
>
>
> A couple of winters ago I was in Scotland when a
> snowstorm hit. All the roads in the north of England and northwards were
> essentially at a standstill. The biggest problem was that Brits have little
> experience driving in snow, and they don't have the proper tires for
> winter weather. So people were skidding out all over the place
> and blocking the roads. Given that these extremes are likely to continue or
> worsen, it's time the whole country got snowtires.
>
> At 11:39 AM 12/1/2010, you wrote:
>
>> Lawrence One of my great grandfathers used to have a horse and cab at
>> East
>> Croydon -you didn't see his ghost around??
>> Took my son six hours to get home six miles last night (and he was
>> trying!!) Cheers P
>> Ps hope you enjoyed your Diarrhoea Trains perhaps the 'Vacuum help'
>> would come in handy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 01 December 2010 16:22
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: snap: spring to summer
>>
>>
>> snowed in in Orpington?
>>
>> I was on West Croydon station this morning - a scene of arctic
>> desolation; so I went upstairs and out into the street - relatively
>> warm, snow cleared, trams moving
>>
>> I went over to East Croydon and was on a train within minutes. Nothing
>> had moved at WC for 40 mins
>>
>> It was difficult to get home last night but not because of being snowed
>> in - rather people who love cars had thrown all the snow and ice on the
>> road on to the pavements
>>
>> and everyone is buying up groceries in case the shops run out, thereby
>> running the shops out
>>
>> The Vacuum help us if there is ever a real civil emergency here
>>
>>
>> Diarrhoea Trains must have read the weather forecast as we all did; but
>> the snow seems to have come as surprise
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, December 1, 2010 16:03, Patrick McManus wrote:
>>
>>> Max We could do with a bit of sun here! And my son in orpington is
>>> snowed in!freezing all day P
>>> frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>>> rrrrr rr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Max Richards
>>> Sent: 30 November 2010 22:57
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: snap: spring to summer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Spring to Summer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shouldering through long grasses
>>> my dog sends up clouds of pollen
>>>
>>> light and bright under morning sun - returns dew-sprinkled
>>>
>>> from muzzle to tail shivery - to me, nostril-twitching hayfevery.
>>>
>>> Cicadas! as noonday warms
>>> their trees, the raucous chorus begins,
>>>
>>> invisible cicada-swarms' new concert season -
>>>
>>> stilled by night, when mosquitoes home in
>>>
>>> with sleep-denying hum.
>>>
>>>
>>> Max Richards in Melbourne
>>> 1 December 2010
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Three poems in Volume 4 Issue 1 'Peripatetica: The Poetics of Walking':
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>> *
>> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3
>>
>> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himse
>> lf-am using
>>
>>
>> "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of
>> us are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't
>> propose to die with polite insincerities in my mouth. " C S Lewis - That
>> Hideous Strength
>> ---
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> "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 storiesthe 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
>
>
--
Three poems in Volume 4 Issue 1 'Peripatetica: The Poetics of Walking':
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
*
http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3
http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himself-amusing
"This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us
are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to
die with polite insincerities in my mouth. "
C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength
---
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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