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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Sep 9, 2004
That one is brilliant, as well, BC. I especially like 'dynamiting a ramshackle idea'...
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Sep 9, 2004
glad you liked them 
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Sep 10, 2004
Name dropping time:
Famous poets I have met:
Ted Hughes
Liz Lochead
Adrian Henri
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Snailrind Posted Sep 10, 2004
That McCaig poem really highlights the things I love about certain people's poetry. He's an evocative writer, isn't he?
Pam Ayres--I remember her: "Oh, I Wish I'd ooked after me Teeth" strikes more of a chord now than when I first read it.
...If I'd known I was paving the way
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fillin's
Injections and drillin's,
I'd have thrown all me sherbert away.
So I lay in the old dentist's chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine,
In these molars of mine.
'Two amalgum,' he'll say, 'for in there....'
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Snailrind Posted Sep 10, 2004
You've met Ted Hughes! You've MET Ted Hughes! Can I have your autograph?
Did anyone else enjoy Ted Hughes's book, 'Crow'?
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Sep 10, 2004
You have met them? How did that come about - are you a journalist? Wow - great name dropping... 
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Snailrind Posted Sep 10, 2004
I've got that book too. It was an impulse buy, in my case. Lovely illustrations--I think I prefer them to the poems, actually. They're not Ted Hughes's best work.
This is more like his usual style:
http://www.e-teaching-austria.at/02_cont/03content/03_englisch/eng_pp/poetry/jaguar.html
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Researcher 556780 Posted Sep 10, 2004
Well I like em!
Interesting that I spelled copywrite that way instead of the right way...
Yes the pictures are rather uniquely wonderful and beautifully printed, by Sunstone Press.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Sep 10, 2004
Of the ones's I mentioned - I spoke to Hughes at the end of a reading at my school, met LL at someone's house, and was a friend of a friend of Adrian Henri and once had a pint with him. Yevgeny Yevtuschenko is a far more complex story. Globally speaking, I'm sure he was the most famous of the four.
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Sep 10, 2004
Not met anyone really famous
Met Norman MacCaig before a reading at school
Spilt beer over some t-shirts Attilla the Stockbroker was selling after a gig
Kevin Higgins is an old friend
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Arisztid Lugosi Posted Sep 10, 2004
hey bc! thanks for the poem! 
... but i dont think i understood it...
i did like the one up there *points to posts above hers* about the dentists... i was at the denitsts yesterday and it was terrible. i have to say that i would have been terrifying to anyone who hadnt ever been to the dentists... i felt like i was being strapped into the chair and about to be tortured...
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Sep 10, 2004
now I'm going to show why I didn't become a teacher
I (think) I understand it but I'm not sure I can explain it, thinking now, give us a while 
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Sep 10, 2004
Its about ways of looking at things and how there are extraordinary things to be seen all around us if we look. 
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Snailrind Posted Sep 11, 2004
Vix, I didn't mean to imply that I don't like the poems in The Cat and The Cuckoo--I just think his other stuff is even better.
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Arisztid Lugosi Posted Sep 11, 2004
thanks bc! thats very helpful...ithink perhps i understand it a little better...
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Sep 11, 2004
falls over with surprise 
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- 21: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Sep 9, 2004)
- 22: Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque (Sep 9, 2004)
- 23: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (Sep 10, 2004)
- 24: Snailrind (Sep 10, 2004)
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- 26: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Sep 10, 2004)
- 27: Snailrind (Sep 10, 2004)
- 28: Researcher 556780 (Sep 10, 2004)
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