As a sort of response to Dave Lovely's fore/four pack: yeah, I keep struggling with Prynne. But I've found it quite useful to read the work aloud to myself, to try to find a voice for it. Parts of 'Kitchen Poems' for example seem to _work_ quite well in a tone of amused condescension but I don't know if this is what is _intended_. Perhaps the Prynnologists or -philes amongst us can shed light or cast aspersions on this suggestion? (Or maybe my perception of comedy is because I've just been unduly influenced by someone telling me at the Salford conference 'Of course the thing they never tell you about him is that he looks like John Cleese'?!) cheers David %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%