Thanks for that, David.
"Good taste is the first refuge of the witless."
Harley Parker (I think)
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On 2013-12-08, at 1:53 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I know there has been a bit of a fashion for deliberately 'bad' poetry but poetry holds a very small niche in consumer culture so I'm not worried for the safety of the latter. Back in the nineties though I used to like poetry for its ramshackle sub-third world economy but the incursion of the ways and words of the Big Bad Market into it have been disastrous - it's rather like visiting an Aged Parent in a retirement home and finding all the residents dressed as goths and punks and vicars and tarts. As an aside I am interested (without being bourgeois) in the notion of 'bad poetry' being the normal state of the art. What we think of as poetry is perhaps an abnormal condition of the threadbare muse. The default is verse and worse. I am merely musing here, I do remember some remarks of Hardy's about it being impossible to write poetry well without having written badly. Anyhow, enough Sunday morning musing, I'm in danger of sounding administrative, and it certainly wouldn't do for me to act managerial
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> Yrs, a Working Class Poet who has lost his silvery name tag (such nice lettering they put on them too - that touch o' clarse)
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> On 8 December 2013 03:53, Pierre Joris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Paul Green’s magazine was called “Spectacular Diseases” — it did try to convince him to change the title, but he was adamant… Must confess that when Opal offered to publish my book, I was of course overjoyed & yet did have a tiny twitch about the press’ name — a twitch I no longer have, come to think of it.
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