Ah, Tim, just about too here: was hospitalised the week before last,
my computer keeps reverting to a go-slow, as if it were longing to be
a 386, and as for the current poetry scene in the UK, well ....
best
dave
2009/2/22 Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>:
> Well David, still around then? So am I, just.
> Tim
>
> On 22 Feb 2009, at 13:13, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> The opposite of which might have been the voice of the awesome Dame
>> Clara Butt, a recording of which I chanced to hear this morning, of
>> whom Beecham remarked that on a clear day you could hear her across
>> the Channel.
>> She used to dress as Britannia to sing for the Empire and her voice
>> could politely be described as elephantine.
>>
>> best
>>
>> dav
>>
>> 2009/2/22 Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>
>>>> My mind slips sideways to the death of Blossom Dearie, news of which led
>>>> me
>>>> to
>>>
>>> Youtube.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNpHSCiDVAo&feature=related
>>>
>>> 'Blossom Dearie's voice, critic Whitney Balliett once wrote, would
>>> scarcely
>>> reach the second story of a doll house.'
>>>
>>> Max<
>>>
>>> Now that is poetry.
>>>
>>> Tim A.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>
--
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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