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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Patrick McManus <
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>> 'Rats Arse' what a wonderful title for a poetry book! is it copyright?
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 06 January 2012 14:09
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Periglis
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>> local artists?
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>> like sand on the shore
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>> some of them are technically rather fine; and I used to go and visit one
>> on another island in particular who had a sort of open house for a few
>> hours a day when you could go and talk to him and he'd pretend to listen
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>> room full of reasonably priced tourist bait and one bin of what really
>> interested him -- small details of rocks, odd shadows... photos and
>> prints and paintings -- but they didnt sell much
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>> many technically proficient, but... Goes back to something Hockney said
>> the other day, which I have *some empathy with -- the need for tech
>> ability and for that element he called _poetry_
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>> i expect he wouldnt tolerate what i would; i am quite interested in the
>> products of incompetence; but he's on to something
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>> i used to say (without realising i *always said it) _what he/she does is
>> really rather well done; I just don't know why anyone would want to do
>> it_
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>> i stopped after someone said _i thought you'd say that; you always say
>> that; I don't find it funny any more: why don't you just say you think
>> it's well made rubbish_ & she was right, I suppose... now i just shove
>> apples in my cheeks and grin like that guy in Catch 22
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>> someone on the islands i regard as a friend was nonplussed by my
>> snapshots book -- there's one about a diy weather vane and i emphasised
>> that one to him because it's really there, on the periglis shore
>> actually so you can see what i say i am describing - the poem's a
>> straightforward thing about it and its shadows and its inversions (maybe
>> _normal_ people don't read things
>> backwards) -- seeing NES (Greek tourist slang for ersatz coffee) and SEN
>> (as in blood). I was pleased with it in a downbeat sort of way,
>> and the whole book was aimed at gig audiences who don't see themselves as
>> followers of the avantgarde -- I used to get quite a few of those... but
>> my friend, who is informed and intelligent, declared the book too
>> intellectual for him
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>> it's depressing... my poem was about as intellectual as a rat's arse
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>> i have done the occasional peculiar postcard
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>> b-c me an address and I might send you one
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>> micturating
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>> On Fri, January 6, 2012 13:40, Patrick McManus wrote:
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>>> now, who shal i send THIS to? Those shals on the seashore??
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>>> How about a series of postcards with your paintings on one side and
>>> porth poems on the other-or half and half -very yummy for the tourist
>>> trade (the upmarket bit!)- from local poet and artist etc don't bother
>>> with those poetry antpamphlets scene no money there!L Upton Cheers
>>> Patrick micturing wildly What about the Porth in the
>>> three musketeers!!(this is one of my very rare lit refs!) Are there
>>> porths in Portugal??
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>>> Sent: 06 January 2012 12:39
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Periglis
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>>> Hi Patrick
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>>>> L Powerful thanks seems deporthed??? I like the micture of massive
>>>> and tiny Sometimes we get three porths now it has flown with the
>>>> small thrush
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>>> Once, I believe, I presented three porths, looking down the length
>>> of a bar dividing perconger and the cove (which must once have been
>>> called _porth_ before english prevailed. It was difficult to avoid and
>>> I lapsed -- at your prompt I did take another route; for which I
>>> thank you
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>>> This, Perconger, is a very stony porth, swamped land, swamped over
>>> recent centuries -- that was undoubtedly in my mind, I refer to it in
>>> another verse -- and the tide goes out quite far. The difference
>>> between high and low is spectacular though you have to live there a
>>> day or 2 to get it
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>>> _micture_ is what you get at the outflow of a communal urinal,
>>> surely
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>>> i feel i have something right with your reference to _big and tiny_.
>>> That is there, in what the poemeye is looking at. No alps etc, you
>>> have to search for physical sublimes though the sea can be alarming if
>>> you think on it. It's the smallness and lowness of it all out in all
>>> that ocean, brevity of life among the aeons - the venerable bede
>>> running in at one door and out the other before we've had a chance to
>>> offer him a cup of tea [an allusion that will be quite silly if you
>>> don't know the ref... sorry... bede, i think it was he, likened a
>>> human life to a bird flying in and through and out of a room -- whoosh
>>> -- done
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>>> i felt that this morning when i got out of bed
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>>> i'll shut up now
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>>> now, who shal i send THIS to?
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>>> L
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>>>> Sent: 06 January 2012 12:11
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Periglis
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>>>> Low tide. The sea has finished with this lot:
>>>> a stone gathering greater than the last judgment, every stone naked
>>>> of earth covering, visible; ocean shallowed of all tide power.
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>>>> This can be ignored. It is not the end of anything, only the dead
>>>> interval between quick and quicker events, big waves and plenty to
>>>> take our minds off a while.
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>>>> Nevertheless, it's here in this morning.
>>>> A herring gull gasps in lieu of a song and seems to shout "horror"
>>>> over the fields.
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>>>> Meanwhile, on a bough, a small thrush composes, choosing from
>>>> repertoires of known phrases, never quite repeating, not quite
>>>> repeating
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>>>> [_Periglis_ from _Porth Eglos_ or _Landing Place at the Church_, -
>>>> _Porth_ has been taken as a synonym for _cove_ ]
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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
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