Pressed wrong button thingy or it was the cat
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 29 May 2015 12:14
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Subject: Re: Snap: Pendeen
Yes?
On 29 May 2015 at 12:05, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 29 May 2015 10:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Snap: Pendeen
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> Not unlike. Just built on in S W London.
> Went down to Worcester Pk on a bus the other day. Looking out of the
> bus window, I had not known death etc....
> Spent some time with my friend Richard recently - he with whom I have
> endeavoured to write of Australian landscape He lives in a small place
> on the coast, a few islands and then the next stop is the Antartic;
> and he was finding it quite difficult to cope with the idiocy of the
> London electorate when it tries to walk. I was crossing Exhibition
> Road with him (god knows why but he wanted to be there) and a woman
> walked open eyed towards us as we reached the V & A side pavement,
> then turned round to speak to someone behind her, still walking,
> crashed into him and then just stared blankly, like an insect that one
> has sought to kill but only maimed - or like perhaps the robots I
> heard about yesterday on the BBC (the Tories haven't killed it yet)
> Radio 4 - designed to prioritise rescue, they do not know when they
> are injured but infer it and keep experimenting with different means
> of locomotion till they find something that works... If they don't
> find a way I suppose they just roll around, limbs flailing, till their
> batteries run down
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> I was in Pembrokeshire a few days ago; and was struck how even in
> Pembroke and the like this did not happen. I was considering the
> possibility of raacial difference, but of course it's just that there
> aren't so many of them; it isn't so crowded
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> There are lots of tunnels in London and since 2010 the indigines of
> those holes have taken heart. One day, they believe, all of southern
> england will be theirs; and unlit
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> On 29 May 2015 at 10:20, Patrick McManus
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> > Hey Lawrence this sounds like the hinterland between Raynes Park and
> > Sutton-Piskies malign spirits all that crowd cheers P very old
> > spirit
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> > Sent: 29 May 2015 09:19
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Snap: Pendeen
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> > It's poorly titled.
> > Nothing to do with the lighthouse.
> > The place of the lighthouse gives its name to the hinterland and so
> > to the 19th century town built there.
> > Before that, there were a number of villages - Portherras Cross and
> > Boscaswell -- now parts of Pendeen. Then there was Pendeen House and
> > its surrounding estate, still separate. But with the development and
> > spread of mines, where mine buildings were not, mine workers houses were.
> > I'm thinking here of what is under the ground - the tunnelling...
> > spirits... not just Piskies which are *relatively benign but older
> > ideas which are from human point of view malign.
> > Until recently, on the hills around. all close, there were open
> > shafts and adits; and they are being capped now -- mine companies
> > just pullled out, leaving their mess and danger Subsequent to first
> > writing I have placed poems on the map. This one was originally
> > called "towards Pendeen" but that could mean anything if you don't
> > know where I am walking from. That project wasn't working, but I
> > left the remnants of the title as a trap for the reader to fall in
> > Better I had left it untitled or some such I shall cap it now
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> > best
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> > On 26 May 2015 at 21:18, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > > feels vague & specific all at once, L. the language the latter for
> > > sure; but I m not sure how it relates to Pendeen (if the lighthouse)?
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> > > so i like the rhythm of it, the moves,,,
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> > > On May 26, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Lawrence Upton
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> > > wrote:
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> > > > they knock
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> > > > one to each
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> > > > under ground
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> > > > below even dead soil
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> > > > in something else
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> > > > among heats
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> > > > they bring
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> > > > light
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> > > > such as there is
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> > > >
> > > > and it sways
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> > > > and it makes them shadows
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> > > > and it fades
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> > > > I hear them
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> > > > trafficking
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> > > > far
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> > > > under foot
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> > > > further than
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> > > > sky's clarity
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> > > >
> > > > between
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> > > > the starry
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> > > > glimmering
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > they seek
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> > > > if only to
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> > > > abandon
> > >
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> > > Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> > > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > >
> > > There is no life that does not rise melodic from scales of the
> > > marvelous.
> > >
> > > To which our grief refers.
> > >
> > > Robert Duncan.
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