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of interest.
2009/5/30 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> 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/
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> 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
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