Dear Patrick
On Tue, August 2, 2011 19:25, Patrick McManus wrote:
> L This could end up world wide!! How many railway stations are there???
> What
> about that funeral station at Waterloo??? And those secret railways under
> London!!!!!
Indeed. Nor is it limited to railway stations. I have a partly unpublished
book (i.e. some in magazines, some just on file) which started out with me
looking out of the window at St Ives Bay.
Then I tried it from a different viewpoint
Then I added looks at a tidal sand bar between 2 islands
and then just standing at bus stops waiting
It was all post-industrial, what isn't? especially the sand bar, because
my view took in rows of daffs from when flowers were grown there... and
then the scattering over the years as non-human processes have spread them
leaving the originals like unconvincing marks drawn through point data
The limitation is time. And energy. I regret the hours I have sat at St
Erth and the views of Kingdom Hall and the Recycling Centre I could have
immortalised. I have a couple featuring St Ives Station, a thin relic of
its original, although the station itself was not my focus
Raynes Park is probably safe. I never go there. I'll say no more than that.
Stopping the overground at W Croydon makes no sense. It's messy. The only
thing I can think of is that Diarrhea Trains felt they wouldn't be able to
cope with anything approaching capacity when the line narrows after the
first stretch about na third way to Waddon. They like the space and time
to stop and start - rather like an upset stomach as it's called.
That first stretch is along the course of the Surrey Canal. Then it
narrows between the former lavender fields
L
> P enthused
> Ps hands off Raynes Park that's mine
> Ps am surprised that Waddon is not overground
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 02 August 2011 17:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 'London Overground' landscape - West Croydon to Norwood
> Junction
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> Waddon is not part of the Overground but is served by Diarrhea Trains
> (Our
> trains may stop but not the verbage). I was thinking this morning of
> landscaping Sutton. If I do that, I might carry on to Waddon. I want to
> go to the Wandle before they spend money on its redevelopment
>
> I am making field trips to Crystal Palace and keeping notes.
>
>
> I have New Cross Gate prepared - scheduled for posting tomorrow.
>
>
> You choose your other targets well. Anerley. Penge West. It makes me
> think of the ersatz rabbit psychology of Watership Down whereby they
> classify many birds as _not hawk_
>
> Anerley and Penge West are, for me, just _not_; and I am trying to pay
> attention to them. I directed a young man to Anerley last night, one whose
> lack of English precluded understanding of _Don't worry, I shall tell
> you_ & I was so preoccupied by getting him there that I forgot to look at
> the place
>
> I have coming up a trip to the other end of the Highbury branch and hope
> to extend my observations that way
>
> L
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, August 2, 2011 17:18, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> L
>> Are there plans to extend this Anerley? Or even Penge West?
>> Or down to the hellish depths of Waddon?
>> P concerned
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 27 July 2011 12:48
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: "London Overground" landscape - West Croydon to Norwood
>> Junction
>>
>>
>>
>> "London Overground" landscape
>> West Croydon to Norwood Junction
>> Tuesday July 26 2011
>>
>>
>>
>> Flowering stuff hikes up mounds; and piles,
>> odd-looking, on to other form, over summits; which might be explainable
>> if we could see what crap's beneath: tumbles and folds of growth under
> similar
>> topoi to old duvets thrown clumsily or dragged off a bed.
>>
>> Smallnesses droop as no valley
>> ever dipped, bent by surrounding.
>>
>> Low cliffs creep guardedly, predators;
>> a sense of openness gives up at fences of varying ferocity.
>>
>> One sees, to some extent, when the trains roll,
>> such space as moving film, and rattling a harsh unrelated sound track,
>> connecting by slurred accidence.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> (NB for non Londoners: London Overground is a train service.
>> "Overground"
>> is colloquial for trains that are not Underground / tube - though much of
>> that is above ground! Now one set of lines has appropriated the word.
>> It's
>> a train train system as opposed to a tube train system. I thank you.)
>>
>> -----
>> solo poems
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_U
>> pt on _Try%20Valley.pdf
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_
>> Upt
>> on _Walking.pdf -----
>> collaborative visual work:-
>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
>> ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>>
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> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
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> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
>
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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