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and so many different alphabets!!!!! On 27/12/2018 17:18, Douglas Barbour wrote: > It was a way to spend xmas day, was it Bill? > > It’s true, lots of poets have taken a gander at the alphabet (I did one for an artiste friend who drew the letters for it in a book). > > And of course, for the truly dedicated use of vowels, there is Christian Bök’s fantastic EUNOIA (& he’s an Aussie of sorts now, too). > > Doug > >> On Dec 27, 2018, at 6:38 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> cheers to waft of waffle >> p's a Patrick piffling perfectly pulsating! >> >> On 27/12/2018 08:29, Bill Wootton wrote: >>> Thanks, Barry. Fascinating historical document, Zorm’s Lemma. Have not gone >>> through it all yet but I see that she does nor go slavishly through all >>> letters either. It would take some time to shoot those images, well done to >>> link Lady with Madonna. The accent is kind of creepy, other worldly in the >>> first bit. Is that a transatlantic accent? Like Sylvia Plath? >>> >>> Mot sure where mine will go or whether I should just leave it. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 3:16 am, Barry Alpert < >>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> Bill, >>>> >>>> Thanks for your charming alphabet poem. A major focus of fine press & >>>> artists books for centuries (I regularly read descriptions of them in rare >>>> book dealer catalogues). Right now I can't remember particular alphabetical >>>> poems coming to my attention relatively recently, but Hollis Frampton (who >>>> studied The Pisan Cantos with Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth's) released an >>>> alphabetical film ZORN'S LEMMA in 1970 which intrigued me upon first >>>> viewing and now that I discover it on YouTube . . . >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec2-GZRYGd8 >>>> >>>> Barry >>>> >>>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:11:48 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Let’s take a little alphabet >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> letter by letter but let’s >>>>> >>>>> not start with a >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> let’s have a gander at g >>>>> >>>>> a good enough place to start >>>>> >>>>> g can be genuine, generous >>>>> >>>>> or globular, gullible, a grunter, >>>>> >>>>> an active participle ender >>>>> >>>>> gunning with his ‘in’ running mates >>>>> >>>>> but g is no a-lister >>>>> >>>>> too often grubby, gaping >>>>> >>>>> or gelled up, >>>>> >>>>> affecting genius >>>>> >>>>> and expecting >>>>> >>>>> jilted cousin j to genuflect >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> if it’s a smarter consonant you seek >>>>> >>>>> look no further than c >>>>> >>>>> - like g, can be soft or hard >>>>> >>>>> but look what else you cop - >>>>> >>>>> conservative, classy, >>>>> >>>>> central, circular >>>>> >>>>> crisp cheddar cheeses >>>>> >>>>> notice its checks >>>>> >>>>> and balances >>>>> >>>>> wherever it crops up >>>>> >>>>> it can dance the can-can >>>>> >>>>> yes we cannot >>>>> >>>>> be convinced that c >>>>> >>>>> can collapse >>>>> >>>> >from its all-conquering perch >>>>> but what of the vowels you ask >>>>> >>>>> well don’t let’s get started >>>>> >>>>> on eddy everywhere e >>>>> >>>>> - sentencers and scrabblers >>>>> >>>>> reach and seek for him too often >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> a’s are anyones >>>>> >>>>> u’s are unlovely q buddies >>>>> >>>>> o’s offer more, round out >>>>> >>>>> options but can obstruct orifices >>>>> >>>>> obliterate one’s onions >>>>> >>>>> no, o >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> should dip his lid to international, inky i >>>>> >>>>> - i is interesting >>>>> >>>>> immoral, immeasurable, >>>>> >>>>> ideal, ironic, isolating >>>>> >>>>> and can do e >>>>> >>>>> if you like, >>>>> >>>>> right, Ian? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> s is sassy, sanguine, >>>>> >>>>> a scene-stealing siren, >>>>> >>>>> always up for a plural >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> d, a doe, a downer, >>>>> >>>>> developing from drivel >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> f fails and falls frightfully, >>>>> >>>>> freighted with farts >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> z’s zeal fizzles >>>>> >>>>> h hums and haws >>>>> >>>>> vapid v no victor >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> t’s tops in trees, >>>>> >>>>> triumphs in thistles >>>>> >>>>> but totally terrible >>>>> >>>>> at tinkering with tomorrow >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> p’s a prince >>>>> >>>>> or a poor pencil >>>>> >>>>> privatised, >>>>> >>>>> a pneumatic phantom >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> r romps, roves, rails, >>>>> >>>>> a raspberry risker >>>>> >>>>> and randy ratbag >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> but it’s double-clunking w >>>>> >>>>> that wins the all-wound award >>>>> >>>>> why w, you wise and whiskery wonder, >>>>> >>>>> wrapping wine and whisky >>>>> >>>>> whenever and wherever you want, >>>>> >>>>> warping warrants, >>>>> >>>>> westering winds, >>>>> >>>>> weeping at windows - >>>>> >>>>> what a way >>>>> >>>>> to wind down this waft >>>>> >>>>> of waffle >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> bw >>>>> >>>>> 25.12.18 >>>>> >>>>> ######################################################################## >>>>> >>>>> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >>>>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >>>> ######################################################################## >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >>>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >>>> >>> ######################################################################## >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > Listen. If (UofAPress): > > > It was cold, in a way that Shadow was starting to become familiar with: colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it was a British building secret. > > Neil Gaiman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1