Time is catching p with us by catching p with so many we have known for so long.
I think of Denise Levertov's fine poem honouring the great ones dying in the 70s etc….
Doug
On 2011-12-14, at 5:47 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> it does not seem to be a very healthy time for either British or
> British-based writers of distinction. Russell Hoban, the American long-term
> Londoner, a novelist who could equal a poet, elegantly remembered in the
> Telegraph:
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8957087/Russell-Hoban-dedicated-to-strangeness.html
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> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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> that none of it has tried to contact us."
> - Calvin & Hobbes
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Douglas Barbour
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Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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