Oh yes. I'm all for it. Whatever it is!
In the last hour or two I have been looking at a piece apparently written
on to a mobile recording device 15 years ago -- although I have a faint
suspicion that I wrote it as if I were transcribing... I can hardly
remember it.
I agree with you about trying to track the origins et cetera. Wherever it
comes from in us, let's trackit once it's out!
*
There's plenty of mumbling from people with sheets of typescript -- I won't
even spend time considering the possibility of remembering. Remembering?
And , while I know some who can deliver a fine reading from a smartphone,
it seems more likely that they won't
L
On 26 April 2017 at 13:31, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Heathen knights, Patrick would now make use of lances for selfie sticks no
> doubt. Lawrence, when I rattle out poems on ipad, I still save versions of
> them and send them to desktop. Good to know where stuff came from and
> sometimes the freshness of early drafts still trumps stuff much-mucked
> with.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 8:25 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I've experienced this poems on a mobile phone stuff.
> > One bit of me finds it exciting -- in some ways
> > but it seems to make sense of the words spaced out meaningfully
> impossible
> > and negates benefits of redrafting -- thinking now of evidence of
> > benefitting writing skills by printing out and redrafting that was known
> > maybe 30 years ago -- but that's been lost or subsumed into "computers
> are
> > good" and now what I think of as idiots' phones subsume even that
> >
> > I tried, at a workshop, to express this a while back. The young person
> > addressed listened very politely and then said "but I don't know about
> > that"
> >
> > L
> >
> >
> >
> > On 26 April 2017 at 11:02, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > thanks Bill -I have never been able to commit to memory -I remember
> once
> > I
> > > was in a medieval play -had terrible job remembering my few line -hang
> on
> > >
> > > 'her come I a heathen knight for St George to
> > > fight...................................'wel some has stuck over 50
> > > years!!!
> > >
> > >
> > > On 26/04/2017 09:49, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > >
> > >> Printing? What's all this printing stuff, Patrick? At poetry readings
> > I've
> > >> been to recently, poets read their stuff, if they can't commit it to
> > >> memory, straight off their mobile phones or tablets. I'm more like
> your
> > >> 'he' here for the moment but when the next ink cartridge conks, I
> might
> > go
> > >> with the flow. I like your line here 'old a clay tablet'.
> > >>
> > >> Bill
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 6:20 PM, Patrick McManus <
> > >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> *ALTHOUGH*
> > >>>
> > >>> he
> > >>>
> > >>> wrote
> > >>>
> > >>> his poems
> > >>>
> > >>> on his super
> > >>>
> > >>> highly efficient
> > >>>
> > >>> ultra-modern
> > >>>
> > >>> tech computer
> > >>>
> > >>> he
> > >>>
> > >>> nostalgically
> > >>>
> > >>> printed them up
> > >>>
> > >>> on his beloved
> > >>>
> > >>> old a clay tablet
> > >>>
> > >>> printer
> > >>>
> > >>> /pmcmanus/
> > >>>
> > >>> /s156/
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
>
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