My pleasure
She's well worth reading
Marina Warner has a well working brain too!
L
On 11 September 2016 at 18:58, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Thanks for naming Alice Oswald, Lawrence.
>
> I have begun with this:
>
> http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=+alice+oswald&&view=detail&mid=
> F8B3C2DC843C59EE0B44F8B3C2DC843C59EE0B44&FORM=VRDGAR
>
> and once Marina Warner has introduced her, Oswald talking gives me heart
> to carry through with her and now look for her books.
>
> Max
>
> On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:50, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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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