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easter sunday,
garden,
Hijk,
On The Sonnet,
discard ::
6 and
The Names Of Here ::
America,
Bedford,
Cambridge,
Keighly,
Norfolk
(renamed from Norwich) and
Sandy.
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Added
The 13th CCCP and
Hijk;
with apologies to Stephen R. (who used the word
to meditate Keats in a poem performed in a session I was forced to miss).
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Added
discard ::
6,
The Names Of Here (renamed from Why Place Names) ::
Norwich and
Cambridge,
edited
America.
That’s 17 poems in last two weeks. This is concerning.
Fortunately, at the moment, no more queue up.
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Why Place Names :: America,
Bedford,
Keighly and
Sandy.
Norwich and Cambridge want to be written,
as does discard 6. Poems are queueing to get out.
And I heard some brilliant stuff at the CCCP today;
new forms to explore and build into my work.
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I’ve just returned home from attending the first reading for the
13th CCCP (Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry) event.
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Read
On The Sonnet and
To Let
at a Borders Cambridge event last night. The audience seemed to get the first, but
not the second. I made the silly comment that “…and then
I realised I’d written a sonnet” after the first, and said nothing after
the second. Are these simple poems really too clever?
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easter sunday,
On The Sonnet and
Different Horizons.
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Edited
Different Horizons
(renaming it from Non–horizontal Horizons),
easter sunday,
On The Sonnet and
garden.
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easter sunday,
On The Sonnet,
Non–horizontal Horizons,
edited
garden and
discard ::
1
5.
I’ve just heard the
Radio 4
programme on Rebecca Elson’s poetry.
I remember her reading a number of times at CB1,
and I remember those poems. I feel sad now. Incidentally,
On The Sonnet
is nothing to do with Rebecca.
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Added
Epigram On Visiting San Francisco (which I half remember creating when I visited the city years ago), edited
garden and
discard ::
1
3
5.
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Added
garden,
split discard into a sequence,
editing 1,
adding 5.
Updated my CV,
adding a Word version
for all those computer agency staff who don’t understand computers,
such as the detail that Word can import HTML CVs.
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Edited discard
and To Let
(renamed from Convenience);
and promoted both of them.
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Added Convenience.
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Edited discard.
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Edited discard.
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Added discard.
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Added Tuesday’s set to
the set of sets—to be accurate,
added the set I wanted to read, and not the one that got chopped down because time ran out
(there was so much audience the coffee bar queue took too long to vanish).
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This was Matt Harvey’s evening. He integrated his clever and self–depreciating
comic poetry seamlessly into an excellent comedy act. I chose to read a
serious set, with no introductions, because I knew my comedy
would compare badly with his. I got some pleasing complements from the kind of poets I admire
(John Drew, Margaret Moore, and apparently Matt himself).
I returned home to discover the postman had delivered a dozen copies of The Whether Or Not Edition of
Page 84, publishing two of my poems. It’s unfortunate,
though no–one’s to blame,
that I received the magazine after the reading.
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Edited
glist,
scratby,
Underneath The Loch and
the three monks.
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Edited
an engineering rush ::
new scientist,
poetry ::
pah!,
swoop ::
2
4
5,
when the trains first came and
Copyleft Is Not Exclusive.
I’m nervous for my reading tomorrow. A letter today from Mrs. T. at
Never Bury Poetry
gave me a damned helpful boost. Ok, so they’re only ‘enveloping’
some of my poems, but I’m going to mark them as intent to publish because
I don’t want to let the possibility otherwise deflate that boost. I’ll correct
the situation later, if necessary.
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5
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Promoted
Bush War and
ghost;
modified and promoted
glist.
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1
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Edited my
draft General Arts Licence
including the copy in the potato press files.
Corrected the headers of
glist.
It’s April 1st; I wonder what the papers say… (much later:
I ain’t got a clue; the day got very busy).
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