Yeah - Armitage's northern ordinariness, the slick tricks of alliterating
verse, the whole conspiracy to keep out Bircumshaw and me by the poetry
powers-that-be, the BBC, ABC, CBC, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, MTV, Disney, Astley,
Fiona at the Poetry Review. Mick Schmidt, Christopher Ricks and
cock-a-doodle Máel Dúin at the New Yorker
..s'just an appalling disgrace, travesty of justice, excluded by the unfair
squares for bein a prosopographer who can perform in that role, deliniate
tics 'n idiosyncrasies into the fully rounded drip, drip, drip of a
perorating pontificator droning at length on any major to minor aspect of
the craft - OUR craft, the shared Work of eternity and flying on that rhythm
within we hear when listening intently to sky - sea - stone and soul yah..
fuk yah
Simons only in it fo da moany 'n gaw naw reet neice cuz he wuz unlike moi -
a chancer makin it up - Gawain me hole, he didn't write that, he only had a
goz and gawp 'n had it easy - infomercial for a dreary bore, Norfen git, i
'ate him for holdin me hostage last night in the hypno dripno tv la la leccy
land of only this, only now, never then cuz - howz tha gonna work?
~
Only joshin Dave, reponding free and full.
i've not seen these tv poetry shows, apart from Wordworth. i keep meaning to
watch it on BBC4 repeats, making a mental note to, but then forgetting
entirely.
There's what looks like a far more promising show, again i forgot to see it
first time round but episode one and two are back top back on BBC4 in the
early hours of (this coming) Sunday morning.
How the Celts Sved Britain.
It looks at the period 400-800 AD, charting the influence of irish learning
on post-Roman Britain.
The presenter is a bit like Owen Sheers, young, attractive, a great career
as a famous TV intellctual ahead of him.
My favourite though is Judge Judy, who i think is the most level-headed of
the bunch as she was a judge for 30 years before going into television, and
she really is very wise. no one gets past her.
Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
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