Dead Poets Society

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Poet U A Fanthorpe has died..

On the subject of poetesses, Carol Ann Duffy has become the first female Poet Laureate. Time to brush up on rhymes for queen, corgi and nazi, Carol.

 

Can I put poetry into Room 101? I just don't get it. At all.

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Poet U A Fanthorpe has died..

On the subject of poetesses, Carol Ann Duffy has become the first female Poet Laureate. Time to brush up on rhymes for queen, corgi and nazi, Carol.

 

Can I put poetry into Room 101? I just don't get it. At all.

 

 

She once commented that it would be inappropriate to write poems about Edward and Sophie. In the unlikely event that the useless pair do something significant, it would be interesting to see how Ms Duffy responds.

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Poet U A Fanthorpe has died..

On the subject of poetesses, Carol Ann Duffy has become the first female Poet Laureate. Time to brush up on rhymes for queen, corgi and nazi, Carol.

 

Can I put poetry into Room 101? I just don't get it. At all.

How sad. I don't like all poetry just as I don't like all art but sometimes I'm bowled over by the skill with which poets arrange words, particularly when those words are used fittingly in some context such as the quotation of Auden's poem, Funeral Blues, in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

 

Sometimes, as with Dylan Thomas's

- a poetic play - they just seem to be a celebration of language.

 

I remember one Saturday morning sitting in bed reading Mrs Godot Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (that's how we get our kicks in the Godot household). It didn't wake her up but it was fun to do.

 

If you're struggling to appreciate poetry why not get a copy of Poem for the Day and read one each day? The one for today is Byzantium by William Butler Yeats where he suggest the dead might "unwind the winding path" of their lives.

 

No, you can't put poetry in to Room 101.

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Poet U A Fanthorpe has died..

On the subject of poetesses, Carol Ann Duffy has become the first female Poet Laureate. Time to brush up on rhymes for queen, corgi and nazi, Carol.

 

Can I put poetry into Room 101? I just don't get it. At all.

How sad. I don't like all poetry just as I don't like all art but sometimes I'm bowled over by the skill with which poets arrange words, particularly when those words are used fittingly in some context such as the quotation of Auden's poem, Funeral Blues, in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

 

Sometimes, as with Dylan Thomas's

- a poetic play - they just seem to be a celebration of language.

 

I remember one Saturday morning sitting in bed reading Mrs Godot Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (that's how we get our kicks in the Godot household). It didn't wake her up but it was fun to do.

 

If you're struggling to appreciate poetry why not get a copy of Poem for the Day and read one each day? The one for today is Byzantium by William Butler Yeats where he suggest the dead might "unwind the winding path" of their lives.

 

No, you can't put poetry in to Room 101.

At least one of you will be pleased to learn that BBC4, a fairly cultured channel that I may have mentioned once or twice, has an upcoming poetry season. It includes a six-part look at British landscape-inspired poetry which starts next Monday; May 16th has programmes on Larkin & Betjeman, Ted Hughes, Thomas, Auden and Stevie Smith, plus docs about the history of poet laureates and R4's Poetry Please; and Wilfred Owen gets a look in on the 18th.

 

BBC2, Radio 3 and Radio 4 all contribute to the season.

As for me, I'm quite fond of the medium, within reason.

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Oh I see.

 

Out of curiosity and because the light is either dimming or my eyesight is failing I searched for any and all dead poets which/who could be fumugated............um, found...........today.

 

I was unsuccessful on that part but did learn there are beer halls called The Dead Poet. acting troupes/troops/troips known as Dead Poet Interpretators and several Dead Poet societies. I never saw the movie since I more or less detest the antics of Robin Williams. Yes I would say more detest. Now before wonton soup is served I will explain. At one time he was able to edge a chuckle out of me. Then again, Al Haig used to have the same effect upon me.

 

By the way is Al Haig still with us? Oh yes, that's right he's slated to be 85 in December of this year.

 

 

I was gping to provided link sausages or linkage to The Dead Poet saloon howver it seems to be a place just looking for credit card info so I decided against it.

 

 

Meanwhile. I feel the need to say that Tuli and the other Fugs were not poets. They were much more. I will post elsewheres aboout Tuli.

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Ai

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Ai

 

Poet Anne Sexton has described her as "all woman — all human", but poet Alicia Ostriker said she was "more like a bad dream of Woody Allen's, or the inside story of some Swinburnean Dolorosa, or the vagina-dentata itself, starting to talk". "Woman, in Ai's embodiment, wants sex," Ostriker writes. "She knows about death and can kill animals and people. She is hard as dirt. Her realities — very small ones — are so intolerable that we fashion female myths to express our fear of her. She, however, lives the hard life below our myths."

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One for pseuds' corner. Ouch.

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Update on Edwin Morgan -

 

Edwin Morgan has always regarded poetry as a means of exploration. At 90 he is still exploring existence, through translation, memories, dreams and other nightmares.

 

Well that should keep him busy for a while yet! I hope he survives and prospers (especially as I dropped him from my 2010 DDP team after two years of woeful underpreformance)

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Poet Peter Porter Pops Off.

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Oh I see.

 

Out of curiosity and because the light is either dimming or my eyesight is failing I searched for any and all dead poets which/who could be fumugated............um, found...........today.

 

I was unsuccessful on that part but did learn there are beer halls called The Dead Poet. acting troupes/troops/troips known as Dead Poet Interpretators and several Dead Poet societies. I never saw the movie since I more or less detest the antics of Robin Williams. Yes I would say more detest. Now before wonton soup is served I will explain. At one time he was able to edge a chuckle out of me. Then again, Al Haig used to have the same effect upon me.

 

By the way is Al Haig still with us? Oh yes, that's right he's slated to be 85 in December of this year.

 

 

I was gping to provided link sausages or linkage to The Dead Poet saloon howver it seems to be a place just looking for credit card info so I decided against it.

 

 

Meanwhile. I feel the need to say that Tuli and the other Fugs were not poets. They were much more. I will post elsewheres aboout Tuli.

 

No sign of Bruno these days, so it'll have to be me who posts that alleged poet Tuli Kupferberg is dead.

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Update on Edwin Morgan -

 

Edwin Morgan has always regarded poetry as a means of exploration. At 90 he is still exploring existence, through translation, memories, dreams and other nightmares.

 

Well that should keep him busy for a while yet! I hope he survives and prospers (especially as I dropped him from my 2010 DDP team after two years of woeful underpreformance)

 

Typical! He's dead.

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Update on Edwin Morgan -

 

Edwin Morgan has always regarded poetry as a means of exploration. At 90 he is still exploring existence, through translation, memories, dreams and other nightmares.

 

Well that should keep him busy for a while yet! I hope he survives and prospers (especially as I dropped him from my 2010 DDP team after two years of woeful underpreformance)

 

Typical! He's dead.

 

Sad news. He was a dear friend of many of my friends. Missed my one chance to actually meet him last year, when he took ill just before it.

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Only my fourth DDP hit of the year, and first hit since May.

 

A slow start, but I did get 5 hits between 11th August and 31st December last year, so fingers crossed...

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Poet and soldier,

Micky Burn has died today.

I suck at Haikus.

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another poet bites the dust

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Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas has penned his last ode

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The American poet Rae Armantrout has written a very lengthy account of her battle with a form of adrenal cancer.

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Poet Christopher Logue dead at 85 http://www.guardian....e?newsfeed=true

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Revered American poet Mary Oliver has been "diagnosed with a very serious illness"

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Feminist poet Adrienne Rich has died aged 82.

 

Most annoying for me as that means my sister has a unique hit on the DDP

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Rosemary Dobson is in a coffin with knobs on http://www.smh.com.a...0628-214ho.html

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Poetry, poets, dead ones, dying ones, deathly ones. Spy corner has demonstrated that there is more than a passing interest among deathlisters in poetry and poets as TF suggested some time ago.

 

Stanley Kunitz is one among many. Who will be next? Louis Simpson? Gunter Grass, the SS poet? Lawrence Ferlinghetti?

 

A thread for favourite poems, discourse on all things poetic and, of course, poets who are potential deathlist material. Ernesto Cardenal, Henri Chopin, Robert Creeley, Hans Enzensberger, Tuli Kupferberg, Noel Edmonds: names you are not likely to find in the Big Brother House.

 

Dedicated to Emily Dickinson, the matriarch of deathly verse.

 

If you wait long enough it will happen after six years Louis Simpson has died aged 89. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize.

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F.D Reeve, 84, poet, translator and the father of Superman, has died.

 

Here's one of his own meditations on death.

 

The Village Grave Yard

 

The fallen leaves are red and dry.

Autumn burns. The still lake mirrors

a blue October sky.

In the cemetery the forgiven and unforgiven

lie side by side.

 

Hoarfrost on the goldenrod.

On the northern mountains new-fallen snow.

Time like a kindly god

reserves some open spaces in each row

for the living dead.

 

How long do we have who follow the sky?

Beneath the rustling maple leaves

in a green plot eleven by five

these ashy bones compact our fond belief

that the sun won’t die.

—F. D. Reeve

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Seamus Heaney at 74. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23898891

 

Sad time for the family with Margaret going last week.

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Under my window, a clean rasping sound

When the spade sinks into the gravelly ground

A gravedigger, digging: I look down