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From: K.M. Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
To: brish <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 01 December 1998 15:32
Subject: all quiet?
|members of which may smile as they read your last message, Lawrence,
|purely as it may seem newly ominous given that recent Pine ping-pong (on
|subpoetics)
oh yes, I know, Keston; maybe I didn't phrase it well. How to phrase it is
the problem. I'm a bit of an Aristotle baby, you know, with a few birth
Marx... I have this idea, that once I step beyond my front door I am
engaging in community - hallo Ric - and such responsibilities as follow from
that
which can be odd - I am just about to go down the hill and up the hill,
hopefully without agoraphobia, to photocopy some bits of paper for tonight's
fest; and to buy something edible for tomorrow...
it's hard to believe in political responsibility in Carshalton Beeches - the
available documents are from the labour party and the conservative party
junk and regular round robins from our socdem mp postmarked H of Commons...
and the semi-literate neighbourhood watch newsletter (which not long ago
spent some time explaining that dwellings without rear access are less
likely to be broken into from the rear than from the front - or, to be
accurate, "less likely to be broken into..." full stop: the police tend to
like one-sided comparisons)
I do think, despite all, that making poetry is a political activity, as are
most perhaps all activities - in the same way as our old friend "I am not
interested in politics" is a political statement; and I thought it might be
interesting to ask about that. Because I realise that some misguided poets
may disagree.
[Those interested in some of the possible aesthetic implications of this
exchange should proceed to The Three Cups at 8pm tonight]
L
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Lawrence Upton's website: http://members.spree.com/sip/lizard/
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"WORD SCORE UTTERANCE CHOREOGRAPHY in verbal and visual poetry"
edited by Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton
Writers Forum, London, 1998; 156 pp; ISBN 0 86162 750 4
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