tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post5965631149860882962..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: Please rectify immediatelyTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-25290296245309239382009-09-28T10:21:22.389+10:002009-09-28T10:21:22.389+10:00Slight correction: babble slam's on Wednesday ...Slight correction: babble slam's on Wednesday next week, Bar Open, Brunswick St, Fitzroy. I'd look like a right patsy if I showed up this week.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-64721400612733392292009-09-25T17:41:10.607+10:002009-09-25T17:41:10.607+10:00Sounds hilarious 'gnac. If you entered with th...Sounds hilarious 'gnac. If you entered with that, you'd probably make it into the finals. The theme for the slam this month is, er, not particularly family friendly though. <br /><br />Thanks for the recommendation Tim, I googled for reviews and it sounds great. <br /><br />It's a puzzling speech affectation Blanders, but I don't think it has anything to do with economic class. Some poets seem to have an idea that poetry when read aloud should be different to normal speech - exaggerated, or cultivated, or just more artificial. Fair enough - there are worse ways to write/read poems. Trouble is, when poets affect an artifical or cultivated tone when reading something out, they can unconsciously slip into some very old habits - eg, the upward intonation at the end of sentences. (I'm sure I have equally irritating speech habits.)TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-23735767216139195742009-09-25T16:27:46.141+10:002009-09-25T16:27:46.141+10:00Readings where every line ends with an upwards int...<i>Readings where every line ends with an upwards intonation.</i><br /><br />Bogan chicks do poetry?Blandwagonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02500489676224676731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-15195995533730811552009-09-25T14:52:53.678+10:002009-09-25T14:52:53.678+10:00Tim, you need to read Nicholson Baker's new no...Tim, you need to read Nicholson Baker's new novel The Anthologist. It's all about poetry and I reckon you'd enjoy it.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01361330734876130185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-46777185352482269422009-09-25T14:47:09.441+10:002009-09-25T14:47:09.441+10:00Damn, if I could get out, i'd love to see it.
...Damn, if I could get out, i'd love to see it.<br /><br />I actually had an 'exchange of notes' with a girl at uni where she sent me some of her favourite lines (the last stanza, basically), and I wrote rhyming couplets in between the lines. I recall a couple along the lines of <br /><br />Oft when on my couch I lie<br />Trying to catch a glimpse of thigh<br />In vacant or in pensive mood<br />Thinking something rather rude<br />etc etc<br /><br />I think I might have impressed her but, due to the vicissitudes of life and my own poor judgement (I was in the process of courting a far less erudite acquaintance of hers) this potential literary tryst remained a fleeting thought on the back of a momentary flaring of poetic licencse,Armagnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430006925445661524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-62700544793324834712009-09-24T16:06:11.354+10:002009-09-24T16:06:11.354+10:00Ah yes. I have a rather vulgar version of that daf...Ah yes. I have a rather vulgar version of that daffodils poem planned for Babble Slam next Wednesday night, Bar Open. Come along if you want to see your dreams horribly, horribly shattered!TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-4139645143893600372009-09-24T16:01:08.026+10:002009-09-24T16:01:08.026+10:00If it's good enough though I can handle any le...If it's good enough though I can handle any level of cliche.<br /><br />The Daffodils is still one of my favourite poems. I know. I don't care.Armagnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430006925445661524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-65586822111776477282009-09-24T15:50:33.824+10:002009-09-24T15:50:33.824+10:00I suspect if Dylan Thomas ever came along to the D...I suspect if Dylan Thomas ever came along to the Dan O'Connell and gave a reading I'd grumble quietly over my beer at his overacting. Yes, I'm a grump.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.com