I just had a bit of a surf to look again at Mr Bircumshaw's piece "after
Bill Griffiths", to examine it and re-examine my position on what Bill has
written - and I am with Bill. The intention is there. Maybe it's a
pseudonym for Mr Duncan
I went a bit further and read Ben Watson taking Duncan to task for his
vitriolic attack upon Bob Cobbing. Duncan publishes the letter with a few
silly comments and then picks up one or two points to argue with; but the
bulk of Ben's critique is published without rebuttal so presumably Duncan
accepts what Ben said. What's worrying is that he doesn't seem to think
there's a problem.
Had Duncan learned from what Ben said, then it would be ridiculous - and
odd - to worry at it now; but, as he has decided to make more, similar
attacks, it might be useful to quote here a few of the points that Mr Duncan
apparently accepts about himself:
"the bigotry... of your tirade against Bob Cobbing."
"duplicitous and pretentious"
"the Tony Parsons of radical poetry?"
"your castigation... huff-puffs with the loathsome stink of repression."
"Your deployment of smart words creates as much collateral damage as a
"smart" bomb i.e. a lot"
"the usual essentialist rhetoric of the Right - —authoritarian, sniffy, and
self-deceiving"
L
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