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From: <Hall>, "Hall, John" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:16
To: British & Irish Poets <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Northern
This recent discussion on sayingı reminded me of a little visual essayı
I made some time ago (attached). Essays of course are in the saying
business too. As are all manner of different modes of talking and writing,
some of them perhaps close to poetry, others very distant. In my little
essay saying is only one simplified term along with others. I would say
that sayingı can never be wholly suppressed in any language use. What can
be dodged, perhaps, is that it is me saying it and taking responsibility
for what is said, way beyond the immediate context of its actual saying.
What we have become used to perhaps is the idea of a poem as a deliberate
assemblage of the already said, where the already said has been said by
others. Assembling fragments of the already said is still sayingı
something, though it probably wonıt seem like a forthright Sayer calling a
spade a spade.
The red frame around the image is courtesy of Microsoftıs snipping tool,
which wants to have its say too.
Best wishes to all,
John
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