Mairead
Have you visited the Keats-Shelley Museum on the Spanish
Steps? The Protestant Cemetery?
***
I'm probably the most guilty contributor regarding life
over poetry here of late. Sorry. I warm to Geraldine's sentiments because I
remember the tremendous buzz on this list in 2003 in the runner up to War on
Iraq and its aftermath (lots of asides, lots of poetry and lots of problems for
the then managers no doubt).
If Percy B could write a poem across his wife's
laundry list (to create a fantastic moment on BBC Radio 4's 'Poetry Please'
last Sunday) then Geraldine's 'just a thought' is not just in this moment.
I joined this List back in late 2002 because I'd found a
contact for 'new poetries' in a book. Though I've lapsed (the stresses of work
and life) there have been very many good and diverse things here.
***
I personally feel the problem is: whether this List
wants to 'narrow' (and thereby expand) a layer of poetry/poetics which is
entirely academic and international; or 'expand' into the increasingly more
diverse modes of common "poetic" expression (a narrowing).
Given that London is pretty much British (sic), nothing is
related here to the live performances of 'Apples & Snakes' poets.
Likewise, given 'Slam' poetry originated in the Bronx, the sustained
Farrago 'Slam' events in London miss this List. These are not 'my cup of tea'
but what poetry is bringing to MySpace and YouTube is the 'new poetry.' Perhaps
'narrowing' this List would be best in defining B+I "poetry."
Culprit that I am, I dunno
ASBO Rupert
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:06
AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Just a thought
Actually I'm in Roam. No, I mean Heaven.
What I
dispute (always have to dispute something) is the Mrs. Boss angle. I see
myself more as a clerical worker in relation to this list. Or a
concierge.
Gerladine indicates a history of clamp-downs in terms of subject
matter. This doesn't strike a bell with me.
I think each writer
should strike out for herself/himself. It may be my personal ambition,
as yet unachieved, to talk only in poetry. I also happen to read pretty
much everything Rupert writes as poetry. I'm kinda mixed up.
Somebody mentioned Geraldine's recipes. Well that sends a frisson down
my Roma.
Of course everyone should write as they like, as broadly or
narrowly as they like.
I don't think we need to formally declare an open or
closed season. Ian mentions the creme de la creme of focussed discussion
on poetics; well we've been drinking skimmed milk for a while.
But the
main thing I want to say is, I'm Mrs. Go-fer, and Mrs. Hey guys be faithful to
the Welcome Message. But British & Irish Poets is very polygamous;
your list needs you; you could be next up for the clerical, etc duties.
Mairead
On 2/12/07, ian
davidson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
When
I was eighteen years old I hitch hiked to the Rome bypass, with a
friend
called Kim. We were on our way to Greece but got lost. I slept in
a
service station, alongside the lorry that gave me a lift. That was all
I saw
of Rome then, but I did go back some years later.
When I
got to Greece I lost Kim as well. She ran off with a rock band
because
she didn't like the beach where i was staying. It was hard
work
explaining to her mother when i got back without her.
None
of that has got into any of my poems yet. Although i did go back
to
Greece a few years later and wrote a poem about having a hangover in
the hot
sun. The poem was in my first ever publication, a joint one with
John Muckle
called It is Now as it Was Then. The poem was called 'It's
All Greek to Me',
and i can't remember most of it but it had the
lines:
my head's a banging
know nothing
no nothing
but
there might have been a fashionable olsonesque back slash
know
nothing / no nothing
They were simple days when poems were much
shorter and the sun was
cooler.
hugs
Ian
>From: Geraldine Monk <
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>Reply-To:
Geraldine Monk <[log in to unmask]>
>To:
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>Subject:
Fw: Just a thought
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:47:08
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> &
would never want to spend the time enduring a discussion about where
>poetics end & real life
begins.
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>~mIEKAL
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>Exactly. Now
back to where Rome is and all the roads leading to
it!
>
>G.
>
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