I've spent a large part of the day reading Martial as a kind of poetic
crash-course in scurrility, back-stabbing and servility towards the
institutions of power, qualities which could also serve one as well in
politics as in ...
2009/5/26 Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
> Fair point, David ;-)
> Sally Evans
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
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> My understanding is that honesty is no longer a quality of poets
>> ;-)>
>> 2009/5/26 Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Hey David how about acknowledgement? my line was Up salt creek without a
>>> padel...
>>> youre welcome ;-))
>>> Sally
>>> Sally Evans
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>>> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
>>> tel UK 01877 339449
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:06 PM
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>>>
>>> a case of being up a certain creek without a padel
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/5/26 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/how-dirty-tricks-dossier-forced-oxfords-female-poetry-professor-to-quit-1690618.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
>>>>> contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
>>>>> Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
>>>>> to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
>>>>>
>>>>> Phyllis Webb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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
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>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>>
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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
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