Hoardings also figure in a Larkin poem I often think of, Essential Beauty.
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On 7/04/11 11:41 PM, "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Max
>
> I am happy for it to be tv; but it was imagined as a hoarding - no actual
> hoarding; i was more obtuse than that
>
> i see little tv
>
> L
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> On Thu, April 7, 2011 01:09, Max Richards wrote:
>> I confess I was slow to twig that this must be one of those tv ads or
>> maybe also a hoarding. Perpetrate! I shall ponder that word for a while.
>> Meantime
>> thanks for a developed snap of the sort I appreciate...(along with other
>> sorts) Max in Melbourne
>>
>>
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>> On 7/04/11 12:18 AM, "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>
>>> An apparently joyous woman,
>>> leaning on large percentage signs, placed for lustıs interpretation: we
>>> perpetrate her with desire.
>>>
>>> Behind her, one window is shut,
>>> reflecting generalities, a mirror of our bland nature: she is there,
>>> wordless, to emote.
>>>
>>> She prides herself; and we watch her
>>> who is now, purchased, selling trust.
>>>
>>> Perhaps, tomorrow, itıll be fresh fruit
>>> or her own lack of employment.
>>>
>>> Yesterday, it was sexy clothing.
>>> Soon, sheıll be portrayed in 3d
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Lawrence Upton
>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>>> Dept of Music
>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>
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> collaborative visual work:-
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
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> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
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