Inanity too, that's another one.
On 30 March 2010 10:44, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Well cooking is quite a useful area education outside language more
> necessary to a poet and skateboarding limbo dancing allotments pubs to name
> just a few and I like custard tarts the sort with that nice brown stuff on
> top
> P -outside language more necessary to a poet
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 30 March 2010 08:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: oxford prof of poetry?
>
> Yes, we looked at Nixon in China too (I've been continually doing courses
> on
> music in the last couple of years as I can't think of many areas of
> education outside language more necessary to a poet).
>
> Hill has always displayed an acute ear for pararhyme. It is a subdued
> ornament to his bleakness.
> On 30 March 2010 07:58, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > She's a very fine librettist. Nixon in China is impressive too. Fwiw,
> > I'm a big admirer of that translation of Brand - one of the few verse
> > versions that actually works. No doubt they give each other prosodic
> > advice.
> >
> > xA
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:51 PM, David Bircumshaw
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Yup, his second wife, since 1987, as far as I know they haven't
> divorced.
> > > Last I heard she'd become an Anglican chaplain at Trinity Cambridge. I
> > was
> > > looking at the text she did for Adams on a music course late last year:
> > the
> > > para-rhyming style reminded me of Hill's version of Brand.
> > >
> > > On 29 March 2010 23:51, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Was it? He's married to Alice Goodman? I had no idea.
> > >>
> > >> Not, mind you, that it has anything to do with anything. But she's
> > >> practically a Communist!!!! She wrote about Mao and the PLO and
> > >> everything!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM, David Bircumshaw
> > >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >> > ... while it was Hill's wife who wrote the libretto for John Adams'
> > >> morality
> > >> > opera on the Achille Lauro ...
> > >> >
> > >> > On 29 March 2010 23:33, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
> >
> > >> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Wait till they rediscover the accusations about Mercian Hymns
> echoing
> > >> Enoch
> > >> >> Powell's speech in the Midland Hotel.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Myself, I don't think Hill did intend a link, but anyone who goes
> > around
> > >> >> giving his books epigraphs by C.H.Sisson is living dangerously when
> > Tom
> > >> >> Paulin's around ...
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On 29 March 2010 22:39, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>> Wow. I mean, wow.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> "Violent new face of poetry"? One of the nation's "most divisive
> > >> poets"?
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Mind you, the whole article is a beat-up. That journalist got out
> > the
> > >> >>> mixmaster good and proper.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> xA
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Max Richards <
> > [log in to unmask]>
> > >> >>> wrote:
> > >> >>> > Doug,
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> > How could you read the Ind online and not tell us about this?! -
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>>
> > >>
> >
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/is-this-the-viole
> nt-
> > >> >>> > new-face-of-poetry-at-oxford-1926988.html
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> > Max
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> > Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> >> I just read this, but what does anyone over there know about
> her?
> > >> >>> >>
> > >> >>> >>
> > >> >>>
> > >>
> >
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/a-life-of-rhy
> me-
> > >> >>> > kate-tempests-poetrymusic-fusion-1929779.html
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> >
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> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> --
> > >> >> David Bircumshaw
> > >> >> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> > >> >> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> > >> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > >> >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > >> >> The Animal Subsides
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> > >> >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > David Bircumshaw
> > >> > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> > >> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> > >> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > >> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > >> > The Animal Subsides
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > >> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > >> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
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> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
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> > >> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Bircumshaw
> > > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> > > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
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