I think your concern about Keston's air-miles is quite justified, Desmond.
After all, fellow's supposed to be representing Britain, what's wrong with a
proper wooden sailing ship, eh?
2009/10/9 Desmond Swords <[log in to unmask]>
> New British School, reminds me of a classic New Con, nucom, ka ka ka,
> Keston
> Sutherland and the usual suspects. Packing out the Garden are they KJ?
>
> The problem, if that's the right word, that most have in poetry, is they
> don't know much about it at the most interesting level.
>
> Ogham, for example, in which the basics are reversing in and out of the
> Language - egaugnaL at individual letter-level: offers a way into
> alternative binary US adn Them schools, whose poetry has to be talked up
> like Johnson and Burt do their pet poet pals.
>
> The death of poetry, at the hands of practitioner academics, trying to tell
> 'em, is like trying to talk of ogham to a ten year old. Might as well be on
> a different planet.
>
> How, please, is Keston Sutherland doing a gig or two in America, travelling
> all those air-miles, hopping back and forth across the atlantic,
> 'sophisticated, provocative, various, ambitious, and (more)
> politically aggressive than most work out of the U.S. "post-avant," - ?
>
> The very last thing I would think on watching Suthers, as an inarticulate
> citizen waiting for the revolution, would be here is a guy who's gonna
> shake
> it up at the House of Commons.
>
> Imagine him at the dispatch box, delivering the figures, policy, theatre of
> reality, in that stucatto ka ka ka, aint i a mad head y'all routine?
>
> Balloon and lead
> the twitchy poetic learned first
> within...where, exactly, would we say, if we wanted to train how in poetry?
>
> Rons Blog?
>
> Or in the Book of Ballymore?
>
> ~
>
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