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>..s'just an appalling disgrace, travesty of justice, excluded by the unfair squares for bein a prosopographer who can perform in that role, deliniate tics 'n idiosyncrasies into the fully rounded drip, drip, drip of a perorating pontificator droning at length on any major to minor aspect of the craft - OUR craft, the shared Work of eternity and flying on that rhythm within we hear when listening intently to sky - sea - stone and soul yah..< Quite so (grin) What really triggered the don't-take-this-in alarms for me were the multiple scenes shot at places I recognised: at moments like those the monumental fakery of tv tends to flood in. I couldn't help noticing how little attempt the programme made to relate the poem to its time ( you could contrast this with the Beowulf programme last week ). And, yes, I think now in the interests of equity the BBC ought to give every poet alive a sixty minute slot to promote their latest book and pretend it's a documentary. I also think that the museum service should be run by second-hand shopkeepers. Best (good to hear you Desmond) Dave 2009/6/5 Desmond Swords <[log in to unmask]> > Yeah - Armitage's northern ordinariness, the slick tricks of alliterating > verse, the whole conspiracy to keep out Bircumshaw and me by the poetry > powers-that-be, the BBC, ABC, CBC, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, MTV, Disney, Astley, > Fiona at the Poetry Review. Mick Schmidt, Christopher Ricks and > cock-a-doodle Máel Dúin at the New Yorker > > ..s'just an appalling disgrace, travesty of justice, excluded by the unfair > squares for bein a prosopographer who can perform in that role, deliniate > tics 'n idiosyncrasies into the fully rounded drip, drip, drip of a > perorating pontificator droning at length on any major to minor aspect of > the craft - OUR craft, the shared Work of eternity and flying on that > rhythm > within we hear when listening intently to sky - sea - stone and soul yah.. > > fuk yah > > Simons only in it fo da moany 'n gaw naw reet neice cuz he wuz unlike moi - > a chancer makin it up - Gawain me hole, he didn't write that, he only had a > goz and gawp 'n had it easy - infomercial for a dreary bore, Norfen git, i > 'ate him for holdin me hostage last night in the hypno dripno tv la la > leccy > land of only this, only now, never then cuz - howz tha gonna work? > > ~ > > Only joshin Dave, reponding free and full. > > i've not seen these tv poetry shows, apart from Wordworth. i keep meaning > to > watch it on BBC4 repeats, making a mental note to, but then forgetting > entirely. > > There's what looks like a far more promising show, again i forgot to see it > first time round but episode one and two are back top back on BBC4 in the > early hours of (this coming) Sunday morning. > > How the Celts Sved Britain. > > It looks at the period 400-800 AD, charting the influence of irish learning > on post-Roman Britain. > > The presenter is a bit like Owen Sheers, young, attractive, a great career > as a famous TV intellctual ahead of him. > > My favourite though is Judge Judy, who i think is the most level-headed of > the bunch as she was a judge for 30 years before going into television, and > she really is very wise. no one gets past her. > > Beauty fades, dumb is forever. > > > -- David Bircumshaw "Nothing can be done in the face of ordinary unhappiness" - PP Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk