Thanks for naming Alice Oswald, Lawrence.
I have begun with this:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=+alice+oswald&&view=detail&mid=F8B3C2DC843C59EE0B44F8B3C2DC843C59EE0B44&FORM=VRDGAR
and once Marina Warner has introduced her, Oswald talking gives me heart to carry through with her and now look for her books.
Max
On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:50, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I hadn't quite finished. The first I knew of it was when I read "your
> message has been sent"
>
> I was going to offer Alice Oswald's poetry as being - in this country -
> both talked about loudly and worth reading
>
> Probably more... but I forget. I am more interested now in telling off my
> computer
>
> L
>
> On 11 September 2016 at 11:47, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but what is the substance of such predictions?
>> I wouldn't trust Clive James.
>> I see no sign of verse dying; and bad verse is on the increase.
>> 20 or 30 years ago there was a chap would turn up to a reading series I
>> attended occasionally, and he would read the paper throughout. Nor was he
>> accompanying a friend or spouse as such; he arrived in various groupings
>> and alone. It was a place to be seen (and perhaps as a result but I have no
>> evidence it was only worth going regularly.
>> Some sell books because they are on the A-level list; others because they
>> are talked about
>>
>> On 11 September 2016 at 10:29, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, we kind of do this on poetryetc, Max
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 11 September 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If predictions are correct about verse being a dying art, those of us
>>> who
>>>> persist in writing it would probably be wise to forget altogether about
>>>> getting published, and just send our latest poem to each other as an
>>> email.
>>>> Each of us would have a list of names, not all of them fools. It would
>>> be a
>>>> low-profile solution, however, and not many poets would get as famous as
>>>> Seamus Heaney, who, in Bellaghy, is about to have a whole memorial
>>> building
>>>> opened in his honour, with a coffee bar.
>>>>
>>>> ://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/10/clive-james-
>>>> new-book-box-sets
>>>
>>
>>
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