Well, that's sort of what I meant by 'okay'; if I'm lukewarm to some
writing now, I dont have enough time to waste any more on it....
So I basically agree; although perhaps the prose intro has some useful
information....
Doug
On 23-Apr-08, at 11:01 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I don't know, Doug, I've just had chance to explore the poems a little
> and there seems to be an awful lot of bathetic writing. Her technique
> seems to be to slap two lines together and -hey presto- you a distich.
> I got as far as 'All Life is One' and had to retire, I couldn't take
> anymore cliche.
> I bet it'll become a cult.
>
> On 23/04/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Taking a brief look, the 'book' contains a lot (I mean A Lot) of
>> prose,
>> explanation, analysis I guess you could say), & even in the section
>> beyond
>> the long Intro, more of same, huge quotations, etc. I read the
>> first actual
>> poem, & it's okay, but I'm not sure that someone who wanted to
>> know, to
>> learn, about the Human Genome would go there rather than to some
>> scientific
>> introduction. On the other hand, her earlier books have certainly
>> won some
>> high plaudits from various poets & reviewers...
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On 22-Apr-08, at 3:27 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I've just been listening to BBC Radio 3's 'Night Waves' programme,
>>> as
>>> a break from reading poems in Catalan (I hope you are all suitably
>>> impressed with the pretentiousness of that statement). It included
>>> the
>>> Scots poet Gillian K. Ferguson whose Internet developed sequence on
>>> the human genome, Poems from the Book of Life, is to be launched, it
>>> said, this weekend.
>>> Actually it already seems to be up and running, if you go to:
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.thehumangenome.co.uk/THE_HUMAN_GENOME/About.html
>>>
>>> and take it from there, it gives the poet and the project. My
>>> point of
>>> interest, though, for I confess I've only glanced at her site so
>>> far,
>>> was that while listening to her read on the radio I could discern
>>> nothing about the form or particular rhythms of the writing. There
>>> was
>>> possibly a sense of a slightly more heightened rhythm than you would
>>> get from prose but nothing more. That's not a judgement on her
>>> writing, but a few moments' impression of what comes across.
>>> Having said that, I'll go back now to the marvellous sound
>>> patterns of
>>> Josip Vicent's Catalan, with whom I'll be reading on Monday night
>>> next. (I plan on doing something with the plain English
>>> translations I
>>> have of them)
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Bircumshaw
>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>>> The Animal Subsides
>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>> Leicester Poetry Society:
>> http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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.html
>>
>> A little planet blues, for the
>> deathwatch.
>> A season of rictus riffs.
>>
>> Dennis Lee
>>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
Douglas Barbour
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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.html
There are no wrong notes!
Thelonious Sphere Monk
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