How borjwazz of Hobsbaum to own a tape recorder in 1966!
I was under the impression that Sparty Lea was some sort of Private Eye joke
on the subjects' leftwards leanings (cf Dave Spart). Is the place a
Northumbrian revolutionary hotbed?
P
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> > It's all a bit of a storm in a tea-cup. What's interesting to me is
> > the overall preciousness of Prynne that comes out.
> ....
> > Roger
>
> Mind you, when Tom Leonard first read the Six Glasgow Poems
> in Philip Hobsbaum's flat at Wilton Street in Glasgow in I
> think 1966, Philip's immediate reaction was to leap across
> the room and drag out a reel-to-reel tape recorder and insist
> Tom immediately reread them into a microphone. In case Tom
> fell under a bus on the way home and they were lost forever.
>
> So is it preciousness (lovely word, and I'm quite prepared to
> believe it of
> Prynne) or a desire to preserve something for posterity that
> might otherwise be lost?
>
> (Or that the danger of falling under a bus in Glasgow was
> higher than the same thing happening at Sparty Lea. Did
> Sparty Lea have buses, even?)
>
> Robin
>
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