Maybe, Patrick, you and I should vacate the playing field. Form a poets'
union of two and go out on strike. Keep accumulating but withhold our
output until other poet mice emerge ...?
Bill
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> How can we inspire petc peeps to participate? Who are our minders
> currently? Who knows whose on the membership list - perhaps we could
> feature one poet occasionally (not one of the active ones!)?
>
> Who's at the wheel?
>
> Andrew
>
> On 9 March 2017 at 03:10, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > True, Bill & Patrick: you two keep the flame alive each week, as most of
> > us do not manage to do.
> >
> > I wonder sometimes how many of ‘us’ are left here (has FB & Twitter taken
> > them all?).
> >
> > Oh well…
> >
> > Doug
> > > On Mar 8, 2017, at 5:26 AM, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > hi Bill yes all about WS Willy shakspeare or one of seven spellings of
> > his name
> > >
> > > * Willm Shakp
> > > * William Shaksper
> > > * Wm Shakspe
> > > * William Shakspere
> > > * Willm Shakspere
> > > * By me William Shakspeare
> > >
> > > and who actually wrote it all feisty stuff raged for months -I have
> even
> > been inspired to write a poem about it all somewhere and Oxford Press
> > changing adding extra authors now -I ramble all over this poor tired old
> > shaken head!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 08/03/2017 11:59, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > >> Hi Patrick. Don't follow all of your banter here. WS Brit Pos?
> British
> > >> concerns about Shakespeare? Yes we few, we happy few, happy two even,
> > may
> > >> have to get more cantankerous to inspire snappers to emerge.
> > >>
> > >> Bill
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 at 10:49 PM, Patrick McManus <
> > >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> yes I rember that once happening my young son who was keen on our
> > >>> kitchen said rather too loudly on a visit 'this kitchen is rubbish'
> > >>>
> > >>> hi Bill we are the last two poetryetc snappers almost extinct they
> are
> > >>> sadly now all past it !!!! can only hold forth on the shocking
> quality
> > >>> of other peoples poems or go on about WS did he or didn't he write
> (or
> > >>> is that Brit Pos)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 08/03/2017 01:19, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > >>>> Ideally level?
> > >>>> 5 year olds at birthday party
> > >>>> footsplashing in blowup plastic pool
> > >>>> Our pool's bigger than this
> > >>>> Ours too
> > >>>> Parents sized up?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> bw
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> > 2 (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >
> >
> > and as you read
> > the sea is turning its dark pages
> > turning
> > its dark pages.
> >
> > Denise Levertov
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> Books available through Walleah Press
> http://walleahpress.com.au
>
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