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Join ModPo (free, open course on modern & contemporary poetry): enroll here<https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo> [cid:471EFAC0-4995-4E59-BA5F-7BD1A21BA013@hsd1.pa.comcast.net] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.u I like the language and the control exhibited in parts of the writing, and find it of interest, but I wouldn't call it innovative, Peter. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:48:45 +0000 From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Byrne I need to conduct a small survey. This poem is on page 50 of The Caprices by James Byrne, recently published by Arc. I want to know if you think it should be properly described as "mainstream” or as ”innovative”. Just as a quick reaction. This is not a facetious question. Thank you. Combing Sunday nibs for a headline. The loss of language ages us, Eduard. Schizophrene grief on losing Einstein, a family smithereeened to its heart. Albert exiled to the Olsonian lectern on Black Mountain. Tete in Burhholzli, alone, enwalled, shocked as Bedlam. Black is the scent of electricity. (This refers to plate 29 of Goya’s Los Caprichos, “That certainly is being able to read”, which shows on oldman reading a book while being interfered with by two dark figures, one combing his hair, the other putting his shoe on.) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:55:23 +0000 From: Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Byrne Mainstream all the way > On 22 Jan 2020, at 16:48, Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I need to conduct a small survey. > > This poem is on page 50 of The Caprices by James Byrne, recently published > by Arc. > > I want to know if you think it should be properly described as > "mainstream” or as ”innovative”. Just as a quick reaction. > > This is not a facetious question. > > Thank you. > > > Combing Sunday nibs for a headline. > The loss of language ages us, Eduard. > Schizophrene grief on losing Einstein, > a family smithereeened to its heart. > Albert exiled to the Olsonian lectern > on Black Mountain. Tete in Burhholzli, > alone, enwalled, shocked as Bedlam. > Black is the scent of electricity. > > > (This refers to plate 29 of Goya’s Los Caprichos, “That certainly is > being able to read”, which shows on oldman reading a book while being > interfered with by two dark figures, one combing his hair, the other > putting his shoe on.) > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following > link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 > <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:29:44 +0000 From: Simon Pomery <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Byrne I'd need to see the poem and book really, but if pushed I would say mainstream. It's the names listed and the absence of analysis around them that make me categorise it as such. The lines on Einstein and Black Mountain are quite un-Black Mountain, which may also be a readership thing. Interesting survey. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 ------------------------------ End of BRITISH-IRISH-POETS Digest - 21 Jan 2020 to 22 Jan 2020 (#2020-7) ************************************************************************ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1