Barbour.
You are brilliant.
Your pose of speaking on behalf of 'adventurous British poets' is admirable, but being sniffy and condescending about it, as a character in the mind alone Dougie luvvie - one capable of performing in reality as a sincere warm hearted and generous bore, in between bouts of middle aged enuui, longuer and beh!- one could, for example, point out the fact that Douglas Barbour is all but unknown beyond the border of this dump, by both adventurous and unadventurous alike, my darling: Non?
Beyond the jovial pose of this piece, there;s a serious point.
I take it you 'teach' poetry in some educational sausage factory where you are bored and after years of people passing through your pedagogical experiment with yourself, performing as someone who aint just a wage-slave but practioner of love via the act of poetry?
And after checking your name for the first time ever, yes, I see you're at Alberta doing brilliant work on behalf of yourself.
You see, what it is, if we just stay in our boxes and huddles and never try, sincerely, to extend ourselves, what happens is we end up like Noam and Hitch, polarized luvvies sat on our arse thinking we are right and the 'other' wrong. But at least Noam and Hitch actually spoke to have a fall out.
This gang and that gang aint even trying to speak as individuals, but seem to exist in little knots and cliques, identity defined not by us alone, but by the associative links and relationships, not of what we speak, but with whom.
And it's all because of a few bores, like Laurie Smith, who gets his own dough, like you do yours and thinks, oh, that's me poetically important then, hey you unadventurous poets not like me being daring with all my skills at filling in forms and being achingly grave, silent and really Dougie luv, life's too short for all this bollocks, so please, professor of poetry, learn how it's done and stop conning yourself you are better than me.
Love you
Seriously though Doug, thank you very much for thinking my time precious. This signifies you think I am an important colleague, unless you're being ironic, in which case.
You're brilliant..
Thanks very much.
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