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No, I'm not bored, Michael. At least not before your post. And yes, I am aware of this forum's "emphasis on recent postmodern and innovative poetries in Britain and Ireland". Have any of my previous submissions to this or other threads made you think I'm unaware of it? I don't consider what I wrote either a jest or Daily Mail-style reportage. Curious that you should even think my account was meant to characterise anyone beyond the particular person I met. I see that if you presume I'm hostile to "postmodern and innovative poetries" you could take it that way, but why would you presume that? You seem just as aware as I am of the disadvantage of the term sounding "like a brag". I also understand it as "descriptive rather than value-laden" which is why I wrote that "in the end I don't think the terms matter that much..." But on the question of what really is linguistically innovative, I think it can apply just as much or as little across the border of the different tendencies. Your list in parenthesis looks odd to me anyway - apart from 'elegy' I would have thought the 'mainstream' would equally distance itself from these other items. -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 3:39 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: baBoom Are you bored or something, Jamie? Surely here is not the most sympathetic forum for a Daily Mail style jest about Mr Fury the linguistically innovative poet? Aren't you aware of this forum's "emphasis on recent postmodern and innovative poetries in Britain and Ireland" ? The term "linguistically innovative" probably had too many syllables to ever take off. It's also unfortunate that "innovative" sounds like a brag. I take it as descriptive rather than value-laden, i.e. linguistically innovative work definitionally attempts to operate some distance beyond the boundaries of commonly accepted linguistic behaviours and artefacts (limerick, anecdote, elegy, monograph, TV play, ad voiceover, rap).