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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