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On Mon, August 15, 2011 15:48, andrew burke wrote:
> Keep it, Lawrence, keep it - then see how it sits with its neighbours
> when you're 'finished' or abandoned the landscapes.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 15 August 2011 22:37, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi Doug
>>
>>
>> I concluded, over the weekend, that this poem should be dropped
>>
>>
>> and then I came into work, switched on the email and read Sheila's
>> email
>>
>> and that's made me pause
>>
>> and pause
>>
>> so I have been doing other things, much as a confused cat washes its
>> arse
>>
>> and paws
>>
>> I suppose it is English, yes; but, being culturally English, and having
>> spent so much of my life in this country, I don't see it
>>
>> (no more do I have images of England when I listen to Elgar tho many
>> would have it so)
>>
>> What you say pleases me though, because it hadn't occurred to me how
>> much of the world is now junked in the same litter
>>
>> one of the dark enjoyments when I go to the west side of scilly is
>> walking the coast and seeing what has washed ashore - in generic terms
>> it's probably not much different to Samoa or the Bering Straits (no
>> foxes on scilly though)
>>
>> Thanks for the encouragement. The poem persists with a question mark on
>> its bottom
>>
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, August 15, 2011 15:23, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> much of this can be seen elsewhere, Lawrence, but the fox is
>>> especially English...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> see so fully, finely, & snappishly? Nah: tat's you at work....
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 2011-08-13, at 9:59 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> old fox in a hedge
>>>>
>>>> coke can on a twig end
>>>>
>>>> hub cap among ivy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tuesday, 30 November 2004
>>>> near St Erth
>>>>
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>>>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
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>>>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- Lawrence Upton
>>>> Dept of Music
>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press
>> _10
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>>> .html
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>>>
>>> It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will
>>> seem strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have
>>> your inadequacies.
>>>
>>> William H. Gass
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
----
Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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