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I have always admired Judy Prince's perceptive powers and equable judgement. On 24 July 2010 19:35, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Why do I usually agree with Birk? > > Is it because his underbelly view is spot on? His sense of politics and > history near-infallible? His logic usually irrefutable---fueled by and > filtered through uber-reading in poetry, arts and history? Or that he's a > consummate satirist, humourist, caricaturist, chronicler? > > It's all of that as well as that he's the best poet in the UK. Might be > the best in the world. > > Judy not given to OTT assertions, despite being Queen of the Nile > > > On 24 July 2010 18:42, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Sorry if I've ruffled any tweeds, they soon smooth down. Must say that >> 'Young British Poets' has a an air of flat contrivance: the perceptible >> collapse of poetry into a language of uninventive marketing is a rather >> shoddy fate for an art that once held its nose in the air: 'this is the way >> the world ends/ not with a bang but a hand-out'. >> >> -- >> (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/ >> > > -- (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/