Very interesting to an old duffer like me -I always assumed that everybody
wrote with whatever was nearest to hand -paper scraps bills backs of letters
-walls??
You all are so organised -don't think that I ever have written a poem on the
computer
Cheers Patrick -soon off to Devon!!
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Barry Alpert
Sent: 10 July 2007 18:40
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Subject: Re: Ted Hughes on the dangers of word processing
Christopher, thanks very much for this reference, of which I was totally
unaware. Though I can't quite follow the patterns within the examples I
was able to locate on the web. Am looking forward to combining a diastic
with a telestich when next I treat a text. I doubt I could manage such a
writing performance while watching a film or a lecture, so the text would
have to be in front of my eyes. Barry
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:52:35 +0100, Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Indeed. Eg Thomas Watson's 1580s pattern poem, *My Love is Past*, which
>combines an acrostic with a telestich ('amare est insanire': to love is to
>go bonkers) and presents the whole in the shape of a 'pasquine piller'.
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