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- Author and Reader of Poetry
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- www.bpswords.co.uk
- About Me:
- I live with my wife and son in a beautiful village in rural Suffolk, England.
My first collection of poetry, The Jealousies, was published by Bewrite Books in October 2008. Here are some little blurbs -
"Fresh and vigorous... a new voice in the canon of UK writers." -
David McLean, author of Cadaver's Dance
"Brilliant, original, evocative, vivid... wonderfully sinister and often very beautiful" - Jane Darwin
"A master of metaphors" - Carillon Magazine
"Impossible to put down. I read it in one sitting" - Greg Cox, The Cannon's Mouth
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://bpstainton.wordpress.com/
- Favorite Books:
- A Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Crow - Ted Hughes
77 Dream Songs - John Berryman
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Foyles, London
Amazon
Kestral Books
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Hoof Prints in February
His voice reels around the old gymnasium -
“Evil is not one entity, or being, but every being.”
My mentor rallies on behalf of Evil.
He treats it like a well-worn shoe
or unknowingly pungent family member.
We, Francesca and I, always drink heavily
in his company.… Continue
Posted on January 13, 2009 at 4:27am — 2 Comments
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I'm over at a few other blogs today. If you get a chance, come on over to see the Christmas Decorations at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/At http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/ the topic is Spoiled Milk. Ever sit down to read a good book and been disappointed?
If you haven't yet, check out the post below about the Paper War.
Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Paper War
I've been waging a war on paper the last few days. So far, paper is winning. The more I clean up, the more of it I find. The problem is, for much of it, I feel an obligation to do a thorough examination and decide whether or not it's worth keeping.The mailperson is my enemy. He, sometimes she, keeps leaving more paper in my mail box. I'm not talking about my Christmas cards, which I cherish, but all the other stuff dropped off for me to sort out. At times it's torture to come home and see the new pile the DH has set on the kitchen table.
I've discovered tons of magazines over a year old. They were trying to hide in a magazine holder on the side of the couch, but not doing a good job of it, since they were spilling over. Of course, I decided to check the headings on the covers to see if some of the information inside might prove valuable. Wouldn't you know it, I was right. Many articles seemed to good to give up.
I've already mentioned here before about how I also have a compulsion to print out emails that seem important to me. The result is I have lots of important pieces of paper. When there's an abundance, which is the most important? And, where's the one I really need? It is a quandary.
What about you? Is paper your enemy? Are you also waging a war against it? Who is winning?
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Have you tried a library display? If you want to see mine, come on over to Make Mine Mystery on Monday.Thanks,
Morgan
Christmas Card Blues Is Up at Un:Bound Today
Hi Gang,I've written a short Christmas story which is being featured at Un:Bound today.
You may be able to relate to some of it.
I'd appreciate your going over to look and leave a comment.
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Morgan
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Best regards,
Jim
Did a little more browsing on the poetry page. It lists another Ogden Nash poem, Eletelephony. However, it lists Laura E. Richards as the author. I'm sure the author is Nash, because I have read a Nash collection with that poem in it.
I'm a stickler for things like copyright, as I hope you are, too. I'm going to investigate a bit, contact the page author. Nothing heavy-handed, but I hope the page will at least cite the proper author.
Also, I'm not sure that it's quite the same poem. I'll try to find my Nash book and compare, because it doesn't seem quite the same. In any case, it's clearly plagiarized.
Best regards,
Jim
Anyway, this is priceless. Also, the page has Wynken, Blinken and Nod, which is another one from my youth.
I think now that both of these must have been in a single collection of assorted works, and not in a book from a single author.
The lyrical and whimsical character of the poem, though, does evoke Nash, at least for me.
Since you're unfamiliar with him, I'll quote -- OK, I'll likely misquote! -- from two that I think I can recall:
The Lama (or, The Llama)
One-l lama, he's a priest
Two-l lama, he's a beast
But I will bet a silk pajama
There isn't any three-l lllama
(Attention is then called to the type of conflagration known as a three alarmer.)
The shortest one I remember:
Parsley
Parsley
is gharsley
He wrote numerous poems about various animals, none of which come to mind at the moment. All are similarly whimsical, but he usually has a touch of insight. I like them because they make me laugh.
Best regards, and many thanks for retrieving Antonio!
Jim
I might as well ask you this, as you're more apt to know the answer than anyone else I know: Do you know a poem titled Antonio, Antonio? I think it might be by Bennett Cerf. It's another one from my youth, and I use a reference from it (at least I think that's the reference) for my dog, Miss Luci Mae Lu Malonio. Anyway, if you know the proper reference, I'd be grateful for it.
Best regards, and I will try to get your book soon.
Jim
I really appreciate you taking the time to download FTW. It's hardly "light" reading (though I think poetry is equally deep, but with a lot fewer words!). Maybe I don't say it (or don't say it properly) in FTW, but I think I'm pretty ignorant, too. The irony is that I can at least pass for well-educated, but I think my knowledge is just higher relative to a pitifully low standard. I guess that's a too subtle point that I've tried to make, that we all need to know a lot more in order to have an intelligent debate/discussion. I don't think that means we should cede the debate to the politicians and their pundits, because they don't seem too knowledgeable, either. (At least, they don't make arguments on that basis.)
Anyway, cheers, and please don't let any perception or illusion of expertise on my part deter you from commenting. I'm sincere when I say that I would welcome even someone who wants to say I'm an idiot for my views on the wars -- as long as s/he would tell me *why* I'm an idiot!
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