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Couldn't they share bits of him around?? -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bircumshaw Sent: 05 February 2013 16:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: BOOKMAKER'S ODDS: Shudder. I think I'd rather sell The Big Issue :) York Minster has today been in the news, as it is, quite rightly I think, pressing its own claim to be Ricardus Rex's final home, he did after all subscribe to its building works; while Leicester, as well as having a mediocre Victorian restoration of a town church posing as a cathedral, was also A LANCASTRIAN TOWN, in which no good Yorkist would want to be seen dead. Leicester also has a long tradition of neglect and despight of its past and its monuments (the little church of Mary of the Annunciation, razed at the reformation, was full of Royal tombs). Unlike, on the whole, York. Literary side-note - the architect responsible for St Martin's (aka Leicester Cathedral) drab outward restoration was a unhappy fellow called Raphael Brandon *- who had* *taken to drink* - a terrible Victorian fate. in 1870 he took on an also down on his luck assistant, one Thomas Hardy. The decrepit chambers of 'Mr Knight, Barrister-at-Law' in 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' are supposed to be based on Brandon's London offices. The cathedral restoration was complete in 1867, so we can't blame Hardy, himself an indifferent architect, for it. On 5 February 2013 13:43, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Your chance to preempt them all, David. Or maybe edit an anthology of > Dickie 3 poems to be sold at tourist attractions. > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> > >Sent: Feb 5, 2013 2:13 AM > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: Re: BOOKMAKER'S ODDS: > > > >One point is that Richard was of course a Catholic so there's some > interest > >in what funeral service will occur in the Anglican cathedral. > > > >And, yes, thanks Mark, I did point that out. A local historian had > >suggested it some twenty years ago and it had become 'common > >knowledge' in the town. To be fair, the historian was mentioned by > >the University archaeologists in their press conference yesterday. > > > >It's a rueful footnote to cosmic irony that Richard (who, even > >without the Tudor propaganda, was still a multiple murderer, albeit > >one with a touch > of > >social conscience) apart from his crimes in life will be responsible > >for generations to come for inspiring a population explosion of dull > >plodding poems b 'local' poets. > > > >best > > > >dave > > > >On 5 February 2013 01:14, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >> David Bircumshaw in Leicester should know what's brewing > >> poetically. He showed me the parking lot when it was still just a > >> gleam in an archaeologist's eye. > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> >From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> > >> >Sent: Feb 4, 2013 7:15 PM > >> >To: [log in to unmask] > >> >Subject: Re: BOOKMAKER'S ODDS: > >> > > >> >Already done, Barry! > >> > > >> >The light shines 24 hours a day on the parking lot. > >> > > >> >Jack Spicer wrote that. Now, by Richard, we know why. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >________________________________ > >> >From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> > >> >To: [log in to unmask] > >> >Sent: Mon, February 4, 2013 9:19:31 AM > >> >Subject: BOOKMAKER'S ODDS: > >> > > >> >In process of setting odds on the first poet to publish a poem on > >> >that > >> stunning > >> >news just reaching me: > >> > > >> >RICHARD III FOUND UNDER PARKING LOT > >> > > >> >Who will it be? Suggestions & odds welcome. > >> > > >> >Somehow Andrew Motion arises in my consciousness as a candidate. > >> > > >> > > >> >Barry > >> > > > > > > > >-- > >David Joseph Bircumshaw > >** > >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/ Leicester Poetry Society: > >http://www.poetryleicester.com > -- David Joseph Bircumshaw ** 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/ Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com