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Big L some research here for your station poems http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_train_stations_are_there_in_the_UK 'I reckon there are around 5,900 stahttp://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_train_stations_are_there_in_the_UKtion s, including those on heritage or private railways, proposed stations and London Underground. Not a definitive answer - but a start! A better answer: without closed down stations or underground stations it is 2656. i counted those listed on wikipedia and including closed down stations it is 9458. (not including underground stations) At the moment there are 311 underground stations and there are 43 underground stations that were once open and now have closed, soo.. In total all the stations closed now or still open in the uk is: 9812.' A few anthologies there lets say at 5 stations per day?? Cheers Patrick Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_train_stations_are_there_in_the_UK#ixzz1U AkdMJIU -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 03 August 2011 16:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Overground Landscape, New Cross Gate, staring East Hi Doug > You get into it, Lawrence, _tell_ the place... I try Doug. I tire of pretty pictures, if you know what I mean. I took some rolls of SLR film some years ago in which I excluded most human works from a holiday by careful framing, just to see if I could; and my mother-in-law was expostulating worries about the wilderness I had led her daughter to; and then I showed her the same walks a second time round where I didn't evade the cables and water pipes I used some of it in teaching later > There's one thing I'm not sure of, which you may deliberately have done > for syntax & argument rhetoric! and maybe metrics - certainly I can't just cut them out and must rewrite You've made me look at it again. One is an opportunity lost or a bit of laziness and I shall return to it - I think I have a fix. Another as in _that is hard to say_ is I think right. I want that ambling slowness there; but I shall look at it all again in the morning and I am grateful to you You replied to the naff draft btw the one with the naff last line. That version is standing in the corner for the rest of time. Best L > Doug > On 2011-08-03, at 4:47 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > >> My shadow extends from an old roof's darkness. >> Fat neck and head lean off the platform >> and across the track into some weeds climbing the fence, which is a harsh >> spiteful structure rising to points to disembowel us. >> >> As to its colour, that is hard to say >> in the light. Imagining daft paintcard names, I'd call it Boredom; or >> Ennui; or Dearth. >> >> >> Farther back, there's dead space that's never used. >> Not much grows there. A box with skull and bones >> portrayed on its lid or door. Something powerful. Soil round's impacted. >> Far back, there's a wall >> upon which every graffito slants down rather, perhaps fifteen degrees - >> enough to hurl cyclists descending hills - like tilt of the roof shadow's >> line. The wall is good; there is detail and difference. And then >> an undesigned lowrise; with tower block behind that, also lacking >> thought; and sky, vague as a loose clout of weak undercoat on the kitchen >> wall - something to stop plaster becoming even more friable - but not an >> atmosphere to support one flying creature. Snails get three feet up the >> wall of my house; and stop, dead, poisoned by the paint we used to show >> off, till some hungry winter bird or a playful cat pokes at them. They >> fall, no longer worth eating. That sort of sky. >> >> And the sound track is a complicated mix: >> trains hasten through the station; people shout at each other, when they >> could speak; train times broadcast at random; train apologies; incoherent >> spluttering; messages breaking or overlaying each other; aircraft; >> traffic; and, to the north, party music, raucous, violently amplified: >> the triumph of the mobile and the mob. >> >> >> ----- >> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton >> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover >> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 >> wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- >> Lawrence Upton >> Dept of Music >> Goldsmiths, University of London >> >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10 > .html > > > It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem > strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your > inadequacies. > > William H. Gass > > ----- UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- Lawrence Upton Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London