"Mischievous" Dave, indeed!  You've writ a lovely early near-snap, which 
mite go something like this:

Fruit of The Workers Education Association

The likeable Ms Fyffe read here last year
wore dresses made to look crumpled
and apparently cost loads
chairs the Poetry Society
prefers poets in the style of Billy Collins and Sharon Olds
has a lovely Irish accent
and is very much a Londoner

what a charming person
from another social planet
I thought

~~~~~~

Judy

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: New beats (???)


>>> I notice no-one has actually said anything about the article in 
>>> question.
>>
>> I read it, dave -- blah, a list of names, and no quotations, so what's to
>> say?
>
> I don't know, Rob, I was hoping someone might tell me.
>
> The likeable Ms Fyffe read here last year. She's very good with the
> audience, wears dresses that are made to look crumpled and apparently
> cost loads, chairs the Poetry Society, prefers poets in the style of
> Billy Collins and Sharon Olds, has a lovely Irish accent and is very
> much a Londoner. What a charming person from another social planet I
> thought.
> She was quite expensive: the funds were provided by a local branch of
> the Workers Education Association which is being wound up, we were
> given the money to pay for any reading, not specifically hers.
> I can't help thinking there's a certain irony in that, what do you reckon?
>
> Best
>
> (mischievously)
>
> Dave
>
> 2008/5/26 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> I notice no-one has actually said anything about the article in 
>>> question.
>>
>> I read it, dave -- blah, a list of names, and no quotations, so what's to
>> say?
>>
>>> Michael Hoffman of course has nothing to do with the class system. It
>>> is natural that public school pupils figure so much in the culture
>>> industry and, I repeat, has nothing to do with class.
>>
>> MH is indeed a class to himself.  I once sat through a 30 minute workshop 
>> he
>> gave, and spent 28 minutes of it writing notes for a poem.  He was 
>> virtually
>> inaudible, which was probably as well since the few phrases I caught 
>> would
>> have made more sense if they had been unintelligible.
>>
>> On the evening of the same day, I actually managed to sit through a 
>> reading
>> he gave.  Again totally inaudible.  Which was more than another member of
>> this list who was with me did, preferring to leave at the interval 
>> spitting
>> blood.
>>
>> Even Aged Etonians, so I'm told, prefer to cross the road rather than 
>> risk
>> being accosted by him.
>>
>> As hard cases make bad law, let's just leave Michael Hoffman where he
>> belongs.
>>
>> R.
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> David Bircumshaw
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>