PS Uche I've put the latest version or Draft Proposal of my USJP (Utterly
Serious Jeux d'Espirit) on my occasional blog at
http://groggydays.blogspot.com
On 23 April 2010 13:21, Uche Ogbuji <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If you've put this up somewhere a bit more visible on the Web, or plan to,
> do please share the link? I'd love to help give it legs. I don't care
> whether it's doomed to theory or not--it's damned good for thought.
>
> --Uche
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:54 AM, David Bircumshaw <
> [log in to unmask]
> > wrote:
>
> > (typos cleared up, I vainly hope)
> >
> > I consider it would be a fine thing, a truly experimental and innovative
> > thing, if there were a moratorium on the publication of new poetry for,
> > say,
> > five years. Or even just twelve months for a test run. By publication I
> > mean
> > anything in print, the internet OR read in public. The question of
> private
> > circulation would require some careful deliberation and refinement of
> > definition: there are always going to be those who have compulsions to
> > share
> > their latest with either their cat, house-plants or mother. Although this
> > would probably have to be a voluntary arrangement it would be exciting if
> > official support could be won and transgression of the discipline of
> > silence
> > could incur a suitable sanction, such as enforced indexing of European
> > Community Food Policy laws or public dismemberment joint by joint in an
> art
> > exhibition (while being maintained alive for the longest possible period
> to
> > endure the even more excruciating pain of the other exhibits).
> > The benefits of this temporary trappism of poetry would be immense: all
> > those counterfeit versifiers who exist solely to torture their audiences
> > through the amplification system of egotism would evanesce and vanish
> > quite,
> > absolutely and utterly, imagine the global deflation of wind-bags that
> > would ensue, we could probably supply the energy needs of the Third World
> > with the hot air saved, while, as there would be no strictures against
> > re-publication, we would have ample opportunity to assemble
> retrospectives
> > and collected works, reputations could be thoughtfully and fastidiously
> > examined, perhaps people would begin to remember how to read, other than
> if
> > scanning a newspaper, and most of all there would be restoration of poets
> > to
> > what should be their true proving ground: the blank solitude of the page.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 23 April 2010 12:49, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I understand, Andrew.
> > >
> > > On 23 April 2010 10:10, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Wait until I'm gone, will ya, David? '...there are always going to be
> > >> those who have compulsions to share their latest with either their
> > >> cat, house-plants or mother' ... or poetryetc. That's me, I fear. I'm
> > >> so excited that I can occasionally turn out a slight lyric that I rush
> > >> in to 'show and tell'. Often I am beholding to the inner core of this
> > >> list for their response in improving the poem.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, a year would be good. Five may be a bit long. But to action it
> > >> would be impossible. Good theory though.
> > >>
> > >> Andrew
> > >>
> > >> On 23 April 2010 16:42, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > I consider it would be a fine thing, a truly experimental and
> > innovative
> > >> > thing, if there were a moratorium on the publication of new poetry
> > for,
> > >> > say, five years. Or even just twelve months for a test run. By
> > >> publication I
> > >> > mean anything in print, the internet OR read in public. The question
> > of
> > >> > private circulation would require some careful deliberation and
> > >> refinement
> > >> > of definition: there are always going to be those who have
> compulsions
> > >> to
> > >> > share their latest with either their cat, house-plants or mother.
> > >> Although
> > >> > this would probably have to be a voluntary arrangement it would be
> > >> exciting
> > >> > if official support could be won and transgression of the discipline
> > of
> > >> > silence could incur a suitable sanction, such as enforced indexing
> of
> > >> > European Community Food Policy laws or public dismemberment joint by
> > >> joint
> > >> > in an art exhibition (while maintained alive for the longest
> possible
> > >> period
> > >> > to endure the even more excruciating pain of the other exhibits).
> > >> > The benefits of this temporary trappism of poetry would be immense:
> > all
> > >> > those counterfeit versifiers who exist solely to torture their
> > audiences
> > >> > through the amplification system of egotism would evanesce and
> vanish
> > >> quite,
> > >> > absolutely and utterly, imagine the global defaltion of wind-bags
> > that
> > >> > would ensue, we could probably the energy needs of the Third World
> > with
> > >> the
> > >> > hot air saved, while, as there would be no strictures against
> > >> > re-publication, we would have ample opportunity to assemble
> > >> retrospectives
> > >> > and collected works, reputations could be thoughtfully and
> > fastidiously
> > >> > examined, perhaps people would begin to remember how to read, other
> > than
> > >> if
> > >> > scanning a newspaper, and most of all there would be restoration of
> > >> poets to
> > >> > what should be their true proving ground: the blank solitude of the
> > >> page.
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > 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/
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Andrew
> > >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > >> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> > >> http://www.picaropress.com/
> > >> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > 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/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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