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komninos I did employ the term 'great poet' nor 'not a great poet' in respect of roger mcgough, I was griping about the prevalence of very light verse on the extremely small amount of time the BBC begrudges to poetry in its airtime. 30 years ago, when roger mcgough was at least writing good light verse, instead of almost doggerel, you could hear both him and the likes of the elderly David Jones or a young Peter Reading or W.S. Grahame or other poets from multiple points of the spectrum in the same slots. As for whether I think I know what a real poet is: No, of course I don't, I rely on other people to tell me, obviously. david ----- Original Message ----- From: komninos zervos <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 7:38 AM Subject: Re: space fat/some quick, loose thoughts > At 11:47 PM 2/17/01 -0000, you wrote: > >suburbanite tenured pseudo-poets > > poets/pseudo-poets please deconstruct. > you are saying you know what a 'real' poet is? > > > As I speak the BBC is broadcasting a programme airing the work and views of > >Roger McGough and Wendy Cope. > >The cutting edge of British culture. > > > >david > > no doubt this is a sarcastic statement - you couldn't really see roger > mcgough as a 'real' poet? > > komninos > komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502 > cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/ > komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872 > lecturer in cyberStudies, > school of arts, > gold coast campus, > griffith university, > pmb 50, gold coast mail centre > queensland, 9726 > australia. >