... more like 'sweet FA ...' Andrew
2008/8/12 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
> though maybe it isn't very descriptive of us as a group or as writers, as
> such
>
> KS
>
> 2008/8/12 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I would REALLY be into "sweet old etcetera"
>>
>> KS
>>
>> 2008/8/12 Glen Roy PHILLIPS <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> What about cummings' "sweet old etcetera"?
>>> Glen
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/8/08 9:15 AM, "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Maybe that's it: A Dizzying Diversity of Cranky Selfhoods.
>>> >
>>> > I'd be happy with that!
>>> >
>>> > Andrew
>>> >
>>> > 2008/8/12 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> >> I had a conversation the other night with an old and pragmatic friend
>>> who
>>> >> said, Alison, get people to advertise on your blog! make it earn some
>>> money!
>>> >> The fact is that I get regular requests for advertising, and I turn
>>> them all
>>> >> down - they'd spoil my lovely design...and it would change its nature
>>> >> somehow. But it made me ponder why I spend so many hours of my life
>>> doing
>>> >> unpaid work. I suspect it's some kind of unconscious resistance to the
>>> >> dominance of consumerist economies and values, the ideology where
>>> everything
>>> >> has a price. You have to eat and pay the rent, but it can't be
>>> everything or
>>> >> you're lost.
>>> >>
>>> >> Worth remembering in the titling debate is that poetryetc represents a
>>> >> dizzying diversity of cranky selfhoods. :)
>>> >>
>>> >> Anyway - must stop nattering and Get On With My Day.
>>> >>
>>> >> A
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:29 AM, David Bircumshaw <
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'll try to say something: poetry is worthless, poetry is rubbish,
>>> >>> that is why we love it. It is the most hopeless art of all, and its
>>> >>> complete dysfunctional presence is its tatty validity. If we try to
>>> >>> accommodate the accepted, in our words, in bland titles. we lose our
>>> >>> cranky selfhoods, which at almost all costs we must maintain.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Best
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Dave
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 2008/8/12 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> >>>>> let's throw the title open.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Um...nobody said it was closed.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> However, as with Keats, so this anthology: we're still reading Keats,
>>> and
>>> >>>> what counts more than the title is the contents. And the contents
>>> have
>>> >>> the
>>> >>>> required oomph. I'm not too worried.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Cheers
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> A
>>> >>>> --
>>> >>>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>>> >>>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>> >>>> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> 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
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>>> >> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>> >> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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