I hadn't quite finished. The first I knew of it was when I read "your
message has been sent"
I was going to offer Alice Oswald's poetry as being - in this country -
both talked about loudly and worth reading
Probably more... but I forget. I am more interested now in telling off my
computer
L
On 11 September 2016 at 11:47, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Yes, but what is the substance of such predictions?
> I wouldn't trust Clive James.
> I see no sign of verse dying; and bad verse is on the increase.
> 20 or 30 years ago there was a chap would turn up to a reading series I
> attended occasionally, and he would read the paper throughout. Nor was he
> accompanying a friend or spouse as such; he arrived in various groupings
> and alone. It was a place to be seen (and perhaps as a result but I have no
> evidence it was only worth going regularly.
> Some sell books because they are on the A-level list; others because they
> are talked about
>
> On 11 September 2016 at 10:29, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, we kind of do this on poetryetc, Max
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Sunday, 11 September 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > If predictions are correct about verse being a dying art, those of us
>> who
>> > persist in writing it would probably be wise to forget altogether about
>> > getting published, and just send our latest poem to each other as an
>> email.
>> > Each of us would have a list of names, not all of them fools. It would
>> be a
>> > low-profile solution, however, and not many poets would get as famous as
>> > Seamus Heaney, who, in Bellaghy, is about to have a whole memorial
>> building
>> > opened in his honour, with a coffee bar.
>> >
>> > ://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/10/clive-james-
>> > new-book-box-sets
>>
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