On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:02:47 +0000, Peter wrote:
>Dangerous because if it continues in that way I might be tempted to give an
>account of the Sparty Lea Poetry Festival of 1967 which I'd rather not.
- people will pay good money for first hand accounts of Sparty Lea -
either to publish or supress, I dunno - so think carefully before you
moot such a thing...
>Actually I remember a poetry party in Manchester given by Tony Connor circa
>1958 in which people consumed nothing but ale and danced deleriously to
>(would you believe it? ) Sibelius' Violin Concerto.
- who playing? what ale? we need to be told, it makes a diffierence...
And by the way, the grauniad, in its continuing efforts to push poets,
did a special valentine's day feature on lurv poetry, asking: is it
alive or dead? best old poem? best new poem? etc. They didn't ask many
of the poets I'd like to've asked. and, not surprisingly, didn't get
many of the answers I'd've liked (though two people voted Wyatt's
"They flee from me..." which always gets me). How would britpos have
responded to those simple questions?
RC
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