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Yup, his second wife, since 1987, as far as I know they haven't divorced. Last I heard she'd become an Anglican chaplain at Trinity Cambridge. I was looking at the text she did for Adams on a music course late last year: the para-rhyming style reminded me of Hill's version of Brand. On 29 March 2010 23:51, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Was it? He's married to Alice Goodman? I had no idea. > > Not, mind you, that it has anything to do with anything. But she's > practically a Communist!!!! She wrote about Mao and the PLO and > everything! > > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM, David Bircumshaw > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > ... while it was Hill's wife who wrote the libretto for John Adams' > morality > > opera on the Achille Lauro ... > > > > On 29 March 2010 23:33, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > >> Wait till they rediscover the accusations about Mercian Hymns echoing > Enoch > >> Powell's speech in the Midland Hotel. > >> > >> Myself, I don't think Hill did intend a link, but anyone who goes around > >> giving his books epigraphs by C.H.Sisson is living dangerously when Tom > >> Paulin's around ... > >> > >> On 29 March 2010 22:39, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> > >>> Wow. I mean, wow. > >>> > >>> "Violent new face of poetry"? One of the nation's "most divisive > poets"? > >>> > >>> Mind you, the whole article is a beat-up. That journalist got out the > >>> mixmaster good and proper. > >>> > >>> xA > >>> > >>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > Doug, > >>> > > >>> > How could you read the Ind online and not tell us about this?! - > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/is-this-the-violent- > >>> > new-face-of-poetry-at-oxford-1926988.html > >>> > > >>> > Max > >>> > > >>> > Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>: > >>> > > >>> >> I just read this, but what does anyone over there know about her? > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> > http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/a-life-of-rhyme- > >>> > kate-tempests-poetrymusic-fusion-1929779.html > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: > http://www.netspace.net.au > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au > >>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com > >>> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> David Bircumshaw > >> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ > >> You say are poems" - DMeltzer > >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet > >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > >> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > >> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > David Bircumshaw > > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ > > You say are poems" - DMeltzer > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > -- > Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au > Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com > Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com > -- David Bircumshaw "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ You say are poems" - DMeltzer Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/