Leicester Gaol is about 500 yards from where I sit, Patrick, and when it was
first built, in the 1820s, public hangings were still conducted at its
gates. There was a pub opposite where the upstairs room was rented out to
the well-off (like executive boxes at football) for the best view. In even
earlier times, executions took place on Gallowtree Hill (just London Road
nowadays) not far from the present site of the University of Leicester and
even closer to where Philip Larkin used to lodge (seems appropriate that)
while the Gaol, which was built in early mock Gothic, is often mistaken for
Leicester Castle by tourists.
Thought you'd like that, as you seem keen on history.
best
On 17 November 2010 18:51, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> Ah that scaffolding those wonderful public hangings whistling crowds
> You remind me JO
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 17 November 2010 17:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Snap Parodic
>
> The prompt for my piece was that awful sinking feeling that comes when
> someone flourishes a parody of the red wheelbarrow as if a bright idea
> nobody else had ever had. I'm very aware of the potential of the initials,
> though I might ditch the title anyhow.
>
> Can't make my mind up whether to replace the start with 'Too much depends'
> or not.
>
>
> On 17 November 2010 16:08, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Somewhere in the poetryetc archive should be a whole sequence of red
> > wheelbarrow pieces I did it must have been 6 or 7 years ago.
> >
> >
> > At 11:01 AM 11/17/2010, you wrote:
> >
> >> As well as the first 2 letters, it seems....
> >>
> >> birds of a feather & all that....
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 17-Nov-10, at 1:11 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> >>
> >> *Defend your W.C.W*
> >>>
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/><
> http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/>
> >> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Latest books:
> >> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >> Wednesdays'
> >>
> >>
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h
> tml<http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h%0Atml>
> >>
> >> There was the usual amount of corruption, intimidation, and rioting.
> >>
> >> Sir Charles Petrie
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> >
> >
> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and
> through
> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss'
> > fragments are like Chekhov's short stories-the more that gets left out,
> the
> > more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the various
> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
> musical
> > threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
> >
> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> >
>
>
>
> --
> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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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