List, Patrick. O List.
(wink)
dave
On 15/04/2008, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I sometimes wonder if poetry etc is haunted ??other times I am sure it is
> -all those poets down the line
> Watch that ghosting DB
>
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 13 April 2008 18:56
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> Subject: Re: Haunting, refrain
>
> Borley Rectory, Douglas, was once celebrated as 'the most haunted
> house in England' .
>
> I'm still trying to get the piece right - it's very hard to write
> about things on the periphery of sight and vision, you have to focus
> the out-of-focus. Below is one of several versions of it as now
> stands, but still not quite there I think:
>
> Borley Peripheral
>
> Peripheral, the visions
> of slowly fading ghosts,
> legacies willed by pictures,
> prints off plastered walls,
> vanishing now like steps
> of blue unfolding smoke.
> Hark as the night's herded
> mists creep: a house creaks
> in timbers to your ears.
> Shapes detach from sounds,
> names drift loose from fact.
> Peripheral, the visions,
> the vigils that us keep.
>
> On 13/04/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I like it, David, but is Borley a place, a person, or a typo?
> >
> > Doug
> > On 13-Apr-08, at 5:26 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Borley Perceptible
> > >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
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> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h
> tml
> >
> > A little planet blues, for the
> > deathwatch.
> > A season of rictus riffs.
> >
> > Dennis Lee
> >
>
>
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> David Bircumshaw
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