>From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Padraic Fallon >Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:52:48 -0000 > >Doug > >I remember buying the very same out-of-date Padraic Fallon when I was about >nineteen, I think. His poems struck me, very uneven but full of texture, of >charges of rhythm and sound, very unlike the boring stuff that is mostly >produced today, they took risks, but when people are writing poems not from >an inner need but to an eye to grants, winning competitions, being invited >to read, status in the the literary community, as it were, the result is >utter dullness. I could say more but I'd better not. > >Best > >Dave > > >David Bircumshaw > >Leicester, England > >Home Page > >A Chide's Alphabet > >Painting Without Numbers > >http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:39 PM >Subject: Padraic Fallon > > >Just to say that I got the new Carcanet catalogue in this >morning and see that in Autumn 2003 they intend issuing a >new Padraic Fallon Selected POems to replace the out-of-print >book that I have. I think it is the only book in the catalogue >that I will buy as basically I part company with keeping >up-to-date with poetry. > > > >Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] >Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html