I've experienced this poems on a mobile phone stuff.
One bit of me finds it exciting -- in some ways
but it seems to make sense of the words spaced out meaningfully impossible
and negates benefits of redrafting -- thinking now of evidence of
benefitting writing skills by printing out and redrafting that was known
maybe 30 years ago -- but that's been lost or subsumed into "computers are
good" and now what I think of as idiots' phones subsume even that
I tried, at a workshop, to express this a while back. The young person
addressed listened very politely and then said "but I don't know about that"
L
On 26 April 2017 at 11:02, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> thanks Bill -I have never been able to commit to memory -I remember once I
> was in a medieval play -had terrible job remembering my few line -hang on
>
> 'her come I a heathen knight for St George to
> fight...................................'wel some has stuck over 50
> years!!!
>
>
> On 26/04/2017 09:49, Bill Wootton wrote:
>
>> Printing? What's all this printing stuff, Patrick? At poetry readings I've
>> been to recently, poets read their stuff, if they can't commit it to
>> memory, straight off their mobile phones or tablets. I'm more like your
>> 'he' here for the moment but when the next ink cartridge conks, I might go
>> with the flow. I like your line here 'old a clay tablet'.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 6:20 PM, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> *ALTHOUGH*
>>>
>>> he
>>>
>>> wrote
>>>
>>> his poems
>>>
>>> on his super
>>>
>>> highly efficient
>>>
>>> ultra-modern
>>>
>>> tech computer
>>>
>>> he
>>>
>>> nostalgically
>>>
>>> printed them up
>>>
>>> on his beloved
>>>
>>> old a clay tablet
>>>
>>> printer
>>>
>>> /pmcmanus/
>>>
>>> /s156/
>>>
>>>
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