R'Owl, re what your point---would you please post again that lovely short
poetry-dream that you said was meant to be sung to someone? A stunner, that
one.
Judy
2008/8/22 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> He's also written in the LRB about photographs he's taken of the East
> edges of London before they disappear.
>
> I wondered why a lot of poetry projects were popping up around that
> area. If you read that piece, it's the lottery money feeding the
> art-beast. Sort of like archeologists documenting the site before
> it's concreted over. I'm a bit ambivalent about. Glad some money is
> going poesy's way but not so happy about why. I'd prefer the wild bits
> to remain wild.
>
> Roger
> On 8/22/08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Brilliant. Iain Sinclair.
> > An excerpt:
> > The scam of scams was always the Olympics: Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in
> > 2008. Engines of regeneration. Orgies of lachrymose nationalism. War by
> > other means. Warrior-athletes watched, from behind dark glasses, by men
> in
> > suits and uniforms. The pharmaceutical frontline. Rogue Californian
> chemists
> > running their eye-popping, vein-clustered, vest-stripping robots against
> > degendered state laboratory freaks. Bearded ladies and teenage girls who
> > never have periods. Medals returned by disgraced drug cheats to be
> passed on
> > to others who weren't caught, that time. The Millennium Dome fiasco was
> a
> > low-rent rehearsal. The holy grail for blue-sky thinkers was the
> > sport-transcends-politics Olympiad, the five-hooped golden handcuffs,
> the
> > smoke rings behind which deals could be done for casinos and malls: with
> > corporate sponsorship, flag-waving and infinitely elastic budgets (any
> > challenge an act of naysaying treason).
> >
> > 2008/8/22 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >
> > > http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n12/sinc01_.html
> > >
> > > The razing of East London by Ian MacEwan.
> > >
> > > --
> > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > "I began to warm and chill
> > > to objects and their fields"
> > > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "I began to warm and chill
> to objects and their fields"
> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>
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