oh ok then
probably me
L
On 26 April 2017 at 15:51, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh Patrick
>
> you’ve started something with that. I won’t go back to clay, but have a
> real fountain pen, * do, usually, write a first daft (not that they always
> get changed than much, but sometimes…).
>
> Have certainly seen people reading from their smartphones (which I don’t
> have; but could use my i-pod or). I transferred a sounding piece to my
> I-pod & except for th pace between the tens, it looked pretty much as on
> paper ( as we adjust our eyes to the new surface?).
>
> A big hmmnnn….? to it all…
>
> Doug
> > On Apr 26, 2017, at 6:44 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>
>
> and as you read
> the sea is turning its dark pages
> turning
> its dark pages.
>
> Denise Levertov
>
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