Dear All
May I suggest that this List centres on poetry and spheres
related to poetry? Personal exchanges, I humbly suggest, are for a chat
room rather than a Poetry & Irish Poetry List shared by very many
across the globe. We have new members to the List, together with a vibrant array
of poets across the world.
I want to publicise the List to expand it - so that
we are all sharing in a rich diversity of approaches to poetry and views (about
poetry). When a discussion takes place about a subject centred on poetry,
fine, and thereby new poets, people interested in poetry of all kinds, join the
List. When exchanges are personal and run away from poetry, people
leave the List.
Some years ago, living in North London, neighbours to
me decided that their house had no windows, so the couple ate dinner in
their bay window naked, in some intimacy, oblivious to the gathering
crowd from the street looking in at them. Suddenly realising the crowd
were looking at them from the street, they blamed their neighbours' for
their behaviour. A boy simply replied: "so why don't you have
curtains?"
This List has no curtains. We're all looking in. So, in my
view, more respect and consideration - And Please, Please, Please let us get
back to poetry!
Best wishes, Rupert