--- On Mon, 6/6/11, Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hey! What's wrong with passionate grapefruit?! Lower case is unbecoming for the name of a post-punk indie band. > I had a strange reaction to the poems -- the ones you posted, Donal -- I was > convinced I'd read them before. Parts of them, anyway. "Derivative", I think, > is the word.> Not entirely which poems or excerpts are being referred to. "For she is everything that is the case" is a clear nod to and a lift from Wittgenstein - perhaps more romantic than calling her the totality of factual propositions or a ladder that you discard when you've climbed up it. I am not well enough versed in...everything can seem derivative after a while, so that I could convince myself I've come across the Bishop of Uppsala before even though we've actually never met. But derivative or not, one of the two poem-excerpts entered as "Photographs of K" in the BPC2011 was dashed off by me without conscious plagiarism having cut and pasted the other. Should be obvious who's wearing no clothes there? Donal London So "You couldn't make it up. Well, uh, someone did." Yes and no.... Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK --- On Mon, 6/6/11, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bad Poetry Competition 2011 To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Monday, 6 June, 2011, 22:51 Look if I tried to write a bad poem I'd be afraid somebody would find meaning in it and give it a prize and me a fellowship to the Academy of Poetasters in Arcadia ego which is south of Id where they grow passionate grapefruit and the dogs sleep in the sun all day like tired lions before the steps of the Temple of Juvenile Jupiter in the Badlands parched number lands of Euclid and flat as a note from Ulysses' trombone I need a number pick one O! I am so sorry but we have for you this wimp's prize three month's vacation in Samothrace including the Gathering of the Underdogs on Mount Suribachi overlooking the pissgreen sea where Wally Stevens lost his images and all esperanza. We should start a magazine full of hopeless beauty Dun ———————————————— I will get into the spirit of the thing, soon. Robert Paul, having dark thoughts in a green shade Entries (multiple entries allowed) should be presented one at a time and given a title: e.g. "Look". The entry should then consist of two parts (1) A poem or an excerpt from a poem written by a poet. (2) Something written by the entrant, which may bear some resemblance or no resemblance to what is written by the poet. The aim of the competition is to make it difficult to guess which of the two is the real poet. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html