Millsy Nah not as good as 'Rats Arse' they would never catch on sun also rise close to cliché and gats aren't they guns or summat in the sweet American tongue
P author of forthcoming 'Rats Arse' should it be illustrated??
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Millicent Borges Accardi
Sent: 06 January 2012 16:40
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Subject: Re: Periglis
Yeah, you could even call a book, The Sun Also Rises or The Great Gatsby.
Mill
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No copyrights for titles. Have at it.
Serving the tri-state area.
Hal
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On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Patrick McManus < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'Rats Arse' what a wonderful title for a poetry book! is it copyright?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 06 January 2012 14:09
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Periglis
>
> local artists?
>
> like sand on the shore
>
> some of them are technically rather fine; and I used to go and visit
> one on another island in particular who had a sort of open house for a
> few hours a day when you could go and talk to him and he'd pretend to
> listen
>
> room full of reasonably priced tourist bait and one bin of what really
> interested him -- small details of rocks, odd shadows... photos and
> prints and paintings -- but they didnt sell much
>
> many technically proficient, but... Goes back to something Hockney
> said the other day, which I have *some empathy with -- the need for
> tech ability and for that element he called _poetry_
>
> i expect he wouldnt tolerate what i would; i am quite interested in
> the products of incompetence; but he's on to something
>
> i used to say (without realising i *always said it) _what he/she does
> is really rather well done; I just don't know why anyone would want to
> do it_
>
> i stopped after someone said _i thought you'd say that; you always say
> that; I don't find it funny any more: why don't you just say you think
> it's well made rubbish_ & she was right, I suppose... now i just shove
> apples in my cheeks and grin like that guy in Catch 22
>
> *
>
> someone on the islands i regard as a friend was nonplussed by my
> snapshots book -- there's one about a diy weather vane and i
> emphasised that one to him because it's really there, on the periglis
> shore actually so you can see what i say i am describing - the poem's
> a straightforward thing about it and its shadows and its inversions
> (maybe _normal_ people don't read things
> backwards) -- seeing NES (Greek tourist slang for ersatz coffee) and
> SEN (as in blood). I was pleased with it in a downbeat sort of way,
> and the whole book was aimed at gig audiences who don't see themselves
> as followers of the avantgarde -- I used to get quite a few of
> those... but my friend, who is informed and intelligent, declared the
> book too intellectual for him
>
> it's depressing... my poem was about as intellectual as a rat's arse
>
> i have done the occasional peculiar postcard
>
> b-c me an address and I might send you one
>
> *
>
> micturating
>
> L
>
>
>
> On Fri, January 6, 2012 13:40, Patrick McManus wrote:
> > now, who shal i send THIS to? Those shals on the seashore??
> >
> >
> > How about a series of postcards with your paintings on one side and
> > porth poems on the other-or half and half -very yummy for the
> > tourist trade (the upmarket bit!)- from local poet and artist etc
> > don't bother with those poetry antpamphlets scene no money there!L
> > Upton Cheers Patrick micturing wildly What about the Porth in the
> > three musketeers!!(this is one of my very rare lit refs!) Are there
> > porths in Portugal??
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> > Sent: 06 January 2012 12:39
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Periglis
> >
> >
> > Hi Patrick
> >
> >
> >> L Powerful thanks seems deporthed??? I like the micture of massive
> >> and tiny Sometimes we get three porths now it has flown with the
> >> small thrush
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Once, I believe, I presented three porths, looking down the length
> > of a bar dividing perconger and the cove (which must once have been
> > called _porth_ before english prevailed. It was difficult to avoid
> > and I lapsed -- at your prompt I did take another route; for which I
> > thank you
> >
> > This, Perconger, is a very stony porth, swamped land, swamped over
> > recent centuries -- that was undoubtedly in my mind, I refer to it
> > in another verse -- and the tide goes out quite far. The difference
> > between high and low is spectacular though you have to live there a
> > day or 2 to get it
> >
> > _micture_ is what you get at the outflow of a communal urinal,
> > surely
> >
> >
> > i feel i have something right with your reference to _big and tiny_.
> > That is there, in what the poemeye is looking at. No alps etc, you
> > have to search for physical sublimes though the sea can be alarming
> > if you think on it. It's the smallness and lowness of it all out in
> > all that ocean, brevity of life among the aeons - the venerable bede
> > running in at one door and out the other before we've had a chance
> > to offer him a cup of tea [an allusion that will be quite silly if
> > you don't know the ref... sorry... bede, i think it was he, likened
> > a human life to a bird flying in and through and out of a room --
> > whoosh
> > -- done
> >
> > i felt that this morning when i got out of bed
> >
> > i'll shut up now
> >
> > now, who shal i send THIS to?
> >
> > L
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> >> Sent: 06 January 2012 12:11
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Periglis
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Low tide. The sea has finished with this lot:
> >> a stone gathering greater than the last judgment, every stone naked
> >> of earth covering, visible; ocean shallowed of all tide power.
> >>
> >> This can be ignored. It is not the end of anything, only the dead
> >> interval between quick and quicker events, big waves and plenty to
> >> take our minds off a while.
> >>
> >> Nevertheless, it's here in this morning.
> >> A herring gull gasps in lieu of a song and seems to shout "horror"
> >> over the fields.
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, on a bough, a small thrush composes, choosing from
> >> repertoires of known phrases, never quite repeating, not quite
> >> repeating
> >>
> >>
> >> [_Periglis_ from _Porth Eglos_ or _Landing Place at the Church_, -
> >> _Porth_ has been taken as a synonym for _cove_ ]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----
> >> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> >> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277
> >> 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > -----
> > UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> > 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> > wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
> >
> >
>
>
> -----
> 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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