Ah, absolutely, Dave; for sure.
Doug
On 30-May-09, at 9:35 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I hoped my qualifiers were in the spirit of Iain Sinclair's witty
> polemic
> and introduction, Doug.
>
>
> 2009/5/30 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I still have mine, Dave, & while I can understand all your
>> qualifiers, I
>> certainly found it one of the more intriguing anthologies from
>> Britain.
>>
>> And fun for its polemics....
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On 30-May-09, at 4:04 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>> Or even:
>>>
>>> Having long ago lost my copy of this interesting/repulsive,
>>> seminal/insignificant, funny/humourless 1996 anthology I was
>>> struck that
>>> yesterday, when I regained a copy, it was not in an independent
>>> bookshop
>>> (what are they in Britain?) nor a second-bookshop but in a charity
>>> shop.
>>> Interesting refuge for poetry in post-neo-Thatcherite-Blarite
>>> Padel-with-security-guards (see the Guardian on the Hay Literary
>>> festival)
>>> little bankrupt britain methought.
>>>
>>> (I love it when I make a blunder in a post and immediately have to
>>> reply
>>> to
>>> myself. I suppose it might be a kind of failsafe: in case nobody
>>> else
>>> responds!)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/5/30 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>> I long ago lost my copy of this interesting/repulsive,
>>>> seminal/insignificant, funny/humourless 1996 anthology I was
>>>> struck that
>>>> yesterday, when regained a copy, it was not in an independent
>>>> bookshop
>>>> (what
>>>> are they in Britain?) nor a second-bookshop but in a charity shop.
>>>> Interesting refuge for poetry in post-neo-Thatcherite-Blarite
>>>> Padel-with-security-guards (see the Guardian on the Hay Literary
>>>> festival)
>>>> little bankrupt britain methought.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Bircumshaw
>>>> "Nothing can be done in the face
>>>> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
>>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Bircumshaw
>>> "Nothing can be done in the face
>>> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/
>>> animal.html
>>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>> Swept snow, Li Po,
>> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
>> to the road that hies to office
>> away from home.
>>
>> Lorine Niedecker
>>
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Nothing can be done in the face
> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
Douglas Barbour
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http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
Latest books:
Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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