Thank you, Patrick.
It is an enormous heap of shit at the moment. The petition may help.
t
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> On 29 Feb 2020, at 19:00, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks Tina -sad -I have signed
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>> On 28/02/2020 23:15, Tina Bass wrote:
>> Apologies for interrupting as I have not been here for a long time. For those that have not heard, Lawrence Upton is dead. I have not got the energy to provide details but if you have energy there is a petition in place to preserve his works.
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>> Please sign if you are so inclined
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>> On 28 Feb 2020, at 23:02, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I’m thinking I’ll try to send a poem by an older poet out each week. This is by Canadian poet, Earle irony, originally written in 1941, then changed typographically for a 1977 volume of his poems, It seems even more relevant today:
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>> Vancouver Lights
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>> Earle Birney
>> From: Fall by Fury. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977. With permission of the Estate of Earle Birney.
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>> About me the night moonless wimples the mountains
>> wraps ocean land air and mounting
>> sucks at the stars The city throbbing below
>> webs the sable peninsula The golden
>> strands overleap the seajet by bridge and buoy
>> vault the shears of the inlet climb the woods
>> toward me falter and halt Across to the firefly
>> haze of a ship on the gulps erased horizon
>> roll the lambent spokes of a lighthouse
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>> Through the feckless years we have come to the time
>> when to look on this quilt of lamps is a troubling delight
>> Welling from Europe's bog through Africa flowing
>> and Asia drowning the lonely lumes on the oceans
>> tiding up over Halifax now to this winking
>> outpost comes flooding the primal ink
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>> On this mountain's brutish forehead with terror of space
>> I stir of the changeless night and the stark ranges
>> of nothing pulsing down from beyond and between
>> the fragile planets We are a spark beleaguered
>> by darkness this twinkle we make in a corner of emptiness
>> how shall we utter our fear that the black Experimentress
>> will never in the range of her microscope find it? Our Phoebus
>> himself is a bubble that dries on Her slide while the Nubian
>> wears for an evening's whim a necklace of nebulae
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>> Yet we must speak we the unique glowworms
>> Out of the waters and rocks of our little world
>> we conjured these flames hooped these sparks
>> by our will From blankness and cold we fashioned stars
>> to our size and signalled Aldebaran
>> This must we say whoever may be to hear us
>> if murk devour and none weave again in gossamer:
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>> These rays were ours
>> we made and unmade them Not the shudder of continents
>> doused us the moon's passion nor crash of comets
>> In the fathomless heat of our dwarfdom our dream's combustion
>> we contrived the power the blast that snuffed us
>> No one bound Prometheus Himself he chained
>> and consumed his own bright liver O stranger
>> Plutonian descendant or beast in the stretching night--
>> there was light
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>> Done in by creation itself.
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>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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