You flatter me, Doug. I'm afraid I'm about as worn out, poetically, as
English literary culture in general. You should see the list for the
Booker of Bookers (or whatever it's called) that's been proposed - it
looks like a serenade to a lost empire. I'd like to think, as do
others, that we'd put all that stuff behind us, but really it's
ingrained in the psyche of the country. England = principal industry:
nostalgia.
Best
Dave
2008/5/18 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Is that the link to your own poetry, David? I'd be off to that pub in a
> London minute, if so...
>
> Doug
> On 17-May-08, at 7:32 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> Guardian Books today. To think I used to use the same pub as Pound and
>> Rimbaud. Hope the link works!
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> 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
>
> and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
> contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
> Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
> to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
>
> Phyllis Webb
>
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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
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