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Dave, I was just gobsmacked that someone would do something like that. As you know, I'm a dreaded 'yartz bureaucrat' and I don't pretend us lot are perfect in any way - and I can tell stories from all angles, being also a poet, if you get my drift - but this lot sound like a disgrace in any sense of the word. Best, Jill On Wednesday, February 1, 2006, at 09:35 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > Yeah, Jill, well .... > > I know that sometimes people on lists feel that I'm a bit over the > top, I'm > sure I can be, but the background to it is the cultural or > anti-cultural > actuality of the world I live in. Don't imagine that I'm unique in that > suffereing, but maybe I feel it more than most. What rubs the wound > is/are > the pretensions of the society that surrounds me, oh yeah they are all > for > poetry, as long as anybody doesn't write any .... > > (that is to say, doesn't write any real poetry, crap pseudo-poetry is > ok) > > _______________________________________________________ Jill Jones Latest books: Broken/Open. Available from Salt Publishing http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710416.htm Where the Sea Burns. Wagtail Series. Picaro Press PO Box 853, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282. [log in to unmask] Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press) http://www.wildhoneypress.com web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones blog1: Ruby Street http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/ blog2: Latitudes http://itudes.blogspot.com/