On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Are
> we to say Brigglatts -- aargh! Gerroff Ric! Gerroff, I say. I love it, mind
> my arm, I love it.
- wassamarra? am I s'posed to be some kinda bunting vigilante? life's too
short...
> Actually, I said to Mr Bunting when he was about 200 years old that it
> struck me as a shame that ageing artists often gave up writing poetry.
> "Surely there's some far country they could get into."
- I like the post-Briggflatts Bunting, though I got a bit fed up with his
poor-dog-waiting-to-die act, hard to sustain for over a decade, in the
face of all the jaunts, and with a malt consumption like that. The "far
country" he was getting into involved studying Welsh, and Linnaeus, and
the Rising of the North: denser, more "zukofskian" in a way. He moaned
about not being able to remember enough, make progress... but I think the
work of that period was quite remarkable. Don't get me started...
RC
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