I hath received information, from the moft reliable and reputable
sources, that mr roger mcgough has taken up a six-month tenure as BT's
first Poet-in-Residence (hurrah, hurrah) Part of his project will
involve judging, with the assistance of the Poetry Society, a
competition for BT persons on the theme of Staying In Touch, and that a
diary of his labours will be available on Messrs PoetSoc's website and I
am in possession of a moft deft and curious illustration showing mr
mcgough, accompanied by the Laureate no less, inaugurating the project.
Now as is well known, telecommunications companies, or 'telcos' as they
would be, are celebrated world-wide for their love and devotion to
language and the subtleties, nuances and dexterities thereof. Any person
who has had the fortune to visit one of the giant Call Centres of these
benefactors of nations, where hundreds, nay thousands of the otherwise
indigent and unfortunate are gainfully employed in tasks which require
little physical exertion and even less of the intellectual as the
beneficient taskmasters relieve the less advantaged by nature of the
onerous labour of thought by providing machines which tell them exactly
what words, what phrases to use in their tasks, and that the contentment
of the employees is ably shown by the glazed expressions they wear; any
such person will know that love of the Sacred Logos these honourable
companies possess.
So I say three cheers for the rogermcgough, the Laureate, and the
London Poetry Society for allying themselves thus.
david
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