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On 7/14/08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Barry
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> call it poet's intuition.
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> 2008/7/14 Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
> > Sorry, but I simply don't believe this assertion. I'd be amused to see you try to prove it, using
> > particulars & numbers. Nor am I a great fan of the last 20 years of poetry, but still . . .
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> > Barry Alpert
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> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:56:18 +0100, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
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> >>Although, like most, I can often make off the cuff remarks about this
> >>or that, I do hesitate to +seriously+ make big pronouncements (don't
> >>laugh) but I would (nervously) propose this:
> >>
> >>that in the English language the last two decades have seen the
> >>greatest production of ersatz poetry in the known history of human
> >>civilization. I can imagine that more bad poetry has been written and
> >>published in English in these years than that of the combined total of
> >>all other cultures that have ever existed.
> >>
> >>It's a humbling thought. What it is to live in such great days.
> >>
> >>Tsunami.
> >>
> >>--
> >>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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> --
> 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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