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
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> 2008/8/12 Glen Roy PHILLIPS <[log in to unmask]>
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> What about cummings' "sweet old etcetera"?
>> Glen
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>>
>> On 12/8/08 9:15 AM, "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> > 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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