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> Good Lord, Dom > > only while walking in the vicinity of Leicester railway station? (I hate > that area y'know, I find it so depressing, even by Lestah standards. And you > must admit that feeling depressed is a quality that this town specialises in > generating, almost as good as Coventry or Northampton in that! I say that > with some feeling as I spent 4 years living just by the station) Nothing in my experience compares to Coventry. Coventry railway station in particular. > > And a love of Wendy Cope? I actually prefer her to Carol Anne Duffy. Rendering The Waste Land into limericks is at least clever. Nothing in The World's Wife is even that. "Tabular schematics" is a good phrase for what to avoid, unless you're designing web pages using Dreamweaver like I was being trained to do earlier today. I was thinking the other day about how I was going to describe to an audience what I thought I was doing in my poems, and realised that I didn't really want to say. A clear rationale is lacking, and although you can have fun making one up after the fact, the fact is that that the fact comes first. (An unfinished poem is an unfinished fact. There are pieces and you pick them up: "you hum it, I'll play it"...) Dom