From: Richard Caddel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 15 November 1999 09:39
| An earlier version of this collab
| was performed at the Subvoicive Symposium ealier this year, and
| discussed briefly on this list then.
I used to object to any form of "Sub Voicive Poetry", but was usually too
polite to say, other than my own. Recently, however, a right wing political
party in Switzerland has attained considerable success by calling itself
SVP.
When the Swiss people realise that there is no increase in the amount of
linguistically-innovative poetry made available to them - or such a slight
increase that it will make no measurable difference to their general
well-being - they are likely to throw the scoundrels out.
Therefore, such corruptions as "Subvoicive" (though SP is the designation of
other European scoundrels) may be welcome. It would be a pity to lose
audience because of the opportunism of a neo-Fascist party.
Is there any interesting Swiss poetry, by the way? Swiss bankers have a way
with disjunctive narrative, so it may be in their culture; but does it get
on to paper? (Perhaps the words "I'm sorry Sir or Madam, but I cannot sell
you that magazine without a password and your finger prints. Thank you.
Would 4.45 next Tuesday suit you? Come alone." are often heard in Swiss
bookshops.)
But I must draw the line at "Symposium." It was a Colloquium. As far as I
can see, the difference is that a symposium is where you drink together
whereas at a colloquium you talk together and we don't do enough of that.
The next colloquium is, let me assure you, planned to allow at least 4 and a
half hours of unchaired symposium but after the colloquy.
L
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