Got both possibilities there, Bill. Closely observing the book & its context…
Doug
On Mar 25, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Inscribed in shaky biro,
> With much love on
> your 50th anniversity
> from
> Marnie, Rosemary & Marjorie
>
> New word coinage:
> celebration and admiration
> for the esoterically qualified
> or for the perpetual tertiary
> student perhaps?
>
> Anniversity.
> From the Latin noun annum.
> An annual celebration
> at the end of each completed
> year of study?
>
> The Golden Treasury
> of the Best Songs and Lyrical
> Poems in the English Language
> Selected and arranged by
> Francis Turner Palgrave
> with an Introduction and additional
> Poems selected and arranged by
> C Day Lewis
> Poet Laureate
>
> Collins
> London and Glasgow
> First published, 1861
> This edition, 1954
> Latest reprint, 1983
>
> Let's assume the last named
> the inscriptor. Marjorie,
> were the other two your sisters?
> Were you the eldest - or the most
> in awe of your gainful brother?
>
> Or of another sister,
> the academically driven one?
> It is to be hoped you suffered
> for your bestowal,
> no adversity.
>
> bw
> 26.3.13
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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