Yes, Desmond, it's good to have a blow-out--and I enjoyed ours.
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:18:17 +0000, Desmond Swords
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>Thanks Chris and Jeff.
>
>Tim, I was not saying Jeff had 'sold out' at all, just having a play.
One's
>brain would need to be at the craziest end of an ultradox poetry
spectrum to
>think appearing appearing on Swifts blog is 'selling out'.
>
>The great thing about me and Jeff, is that we've had our name-calling
and
>slanging match this time last year, and great fun it was too. I think it
is
>healthy to have the big blow-out at the beginning because it clears
the air
>at the start. I think most performers in print must have large egos
and an
>inflated sense of our own self worth, surely, otherwise why would we
try to
>inject our opinions on something so potentially inconsequential as a
poem,
>with the gravity of a WMD weapons inspectors' report?
>
>I remember when setting up last years third All Ireland (live) Poetry
Slam
>championship final with John Walsh who runs the very healthy North
Beach
>Nights in Galway. On the second e mail we had a little spat, both
speaking
>our minds and leaving one another in no doubt about our position on
>something, and do you know, subsequently in the following months,
this
>relationship became one of the most straightforward and hassle free
I've
>had, because we got the ego nonsense out the way at the beginning
and the
>only it could go after our first e mail meeting, was up into certainty
about
>where we both stood.
>
>I love you Tim.
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