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| 29 | Edited easter sunday, garden, Hijk, On The Sonnet, discard :: 6 and The Names Of Here :: America, Bedford, Cambridge, Keighly, Norfolk (renamed from Norwich) and Sandy. |
| 28 | 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). |
| 27 | 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. |
| 26 | Added 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. |
| 25 | I’ve just returned home from attending the first reading for the 13th CCCP (Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry) event. |
| 24 | 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? |
| 22 | Edited easter sunday, On The Sonnet and Different Horizons. |
| 21 | Edited Different Horizons (renaming it from Non–horizontal Horizons), easter sunday, On The Sonnet and garden. |
| 20 | Added 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. |
| 19 | 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. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 17 | Edited discard and To Let (renamed from Convenience); and promoted both of them. |
| 16 | Added Convenience. |
| 15 | Edited discard. |
| 14 | Edited discard. |
| 13 | Added discard. |
| 11 | 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). |
| 9 | 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. |
| 8 | Edited glist, scratby, Underneath The Loch and the three monks. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 5 | Promoted Bush War and ghost; modified and promoted glist. |
| 1 | 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). |
