There is a hammer behind every dictionary
On Tue, November 22, 2011 17:45, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Aha! Missed metering!
> I like rooves ,hooves and behoves ingrooving
> Hey just found lost hammer behind dictionary! What joy!
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 22 November 2011 17:12
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> Subject: Re: The hill above St Ives Harbour from Barnoon, evening
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> On Tue, November 22, 2011 16:39, Patrick McManus wrote:
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>> Stormy
>> is what is the plural of roof -roofs -rooves? Poetic licence? I would
>> suggest rearranging last verse (dare I?)
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> No, it's not poetic licence; not a concept I endorse.
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> We have had this before.
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> Rooves is or was standard English -- it's getting lost because everyone
> has an English (American) dictionary. Mine is the English of Vauxhall atte
> Thames.
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>> axes and velocities. Wild bushes and specimen plants. Ivies stand out
>> from trunks, trompe l'oeil. Red-green moss wreckage scatters from
>> rooves.
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> I understand why you propose that, Patrick.
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> The metre's not strongly consistent but it is there and I am line
> breaking to that and to show disorder. Yours it seems to me ignores the
> metre and breaks analytically for prose sense.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 22 November 2011 12:58
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: The hill above St Ives Harbour from Barnoon, evening
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>> There is a wind and everything stands up,
>> animal tails' response infecting the less animate. Or so it seems; that
> is,
>> one might think that.
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>> The tips of the orange-coloured palm tree protrude,
>> bristling flickering at edges of flocked birds turning through their
>> differing and multiple
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>> axes and velocities. Wild bushes and specimen plants. Ivies stand out
>> from trunks, trompe l'oeil. Red-green moss wreckage scatters from
>> rooves.
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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 ----
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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 ----
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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
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