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________________________________________ From: British & Irish poets [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pam Thompson [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 08 June 2010 09:04 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: The third ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "How to Live a Life" by Martin Stannard. They are different people. I’m not aware that Martin the poet was ever a Professor at Leicester Uni but know that a very different Martin is just that. It would make sense that he read to you some years ago as he was one of the East Midlands ‘’New Voices around 1994ish. Martin the poet spent a recent stint teaching in China so it makes sense that he may be back teaching at Nottingham Trent. Martin the poet also used to have very long hair and probably doesn’t now. Pam From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bircumshaw Sent: 08 June 2010 08:50 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: The third ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “How to Live a Life” by Martin Stannard. I think the cracks in the universe are showing too close to home; some years ago, in the 1990s, a Martin Stannard as Martin Stannard the poet came to read to us at Leicester. Said Martin Stannard had also just taken up a Professorship at Leicester Uni and was the former editor of Joe Soap's Canoe (he mentioned it). There is still a Martin Stannard (academic and biographer) at Leic Uni who is definitely the author of volumes on Evelyn Waugh and possibly also of a recent one of Muriel Spark (attributed to a Martin Stannard) Meantime Martin Stannard the poet claims (on his blog) to have been a telephone operator till 2005 tho' he now (2008 it seems) teaches at Nottingham Trent University. Which would mean that he isn't the Martin Stannard (poet) who read to us some years back altho' their style of writing is identical and unchanged after all these years. Unlike their photographs, in either Stannard's case, as neither looks anything like the guy who read to us. What the f - f- flip? On 8 June 2010 08:26, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Wait there - there are two Martin Stannards - who have both had Professorships at Leicester University? Too weird to be real, so it must be true, still don't like his poems much though, which ever one of him he is. On 8 June 2010 06:23, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Professor Martin Stannard is another figure I can't make my mind up about: I think he tries too hard to be funny (and that Professor twist, when he first came to Leicester, and insisted on going around everywhere with his Title, which made me think of Jimmy Edwards, and old ham). I suspect there's too much of a split between his back-slappy persona as a poet and his other life in which he's a cautious and over-respectful academic biographer of very conservative literary figures like Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark. I don't know: I just don't like the guy's stuff, or rather, I don't trust it. On 8 June 2010 03:50, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: The third ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “How to Live a Life” by Martin Stannard. Description: As may be inferred from the title, this poem by Martin Stannard is published in the hope that it will assist the complete idiot to understand the basic problems of living a life, and also help him or her to overcome them. Available as a free ebook here: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=36590601 -- (David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk<http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk/> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ -- (David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk<http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk/> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ -- (David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/