[New-Poetry] World's worst poet

[David Bircumshaw]

Twas meant to give a smile, Roger
> Talking of nonsense, that's a fine paragraph you spin there Davey boy.
>
> Roger
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:12 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>> > I think it's quite amusing that the lamentable McGonagall, pelted with
>> > tomatoes in life and laughed at still in death, has inadvertently provoked
>> > such a long and argumentative thread, with barely a mention of his
>> > flatfooted Musings included. 'Twas ever thus, O Sage of Tay.
>> > I do believe one of the before-mentioned Spasmodics was a kind of poetical
>> > mentor to him.  I object, though, to Daisaku Ikeda's anodyne null-poetry
>> > being suggested as competition for McGonagall's crown of donkey's ears,
>> >  Dundee's greatest poet +aspires+  to the heights of incompetence, he
>> > suffered for his lack of art, by his eternal mediocrity we are at last
>> > reminded what good poetry is supposed to be, it's no wonder his star is on
>> > the increase in an age unpoets and their negations of language are feted,
>> >  when critics who can barely write a paragraph of comprehensible English are
>> > made lawgivers of taste, he alone still sets a standard by which all others
>> > can be judged, in him the sanctity of the Author is restored, all sincerity
>> > is returned to verse, no-one, no-one could have written so badly and have
>> > ruined their life for it without having meant every word, honours he
>> > disdained and the world's false gee-gaws contemned, and all the would-be
>> > managers of culture and minds he confutes and thwarts.
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > David Bircumshaw
>> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>> >
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk

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