[lit-ideas] Re: The Thing I Thought I Would Not Watch
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:52:00 +0100 (BST)
yes, it seems to be "paint a Union Jack on your cat/play the kazoo" time, in
the Mall, anyway. Here it's eerily quiet, as in "cold damp Bank Holiday
morning" quiet. I'm gaining Republican cred by watching Wife Swap USA etc..
I think the full Carole Ann Duffy poem isn't online. Here's a better Telegraph
story on it
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8480795/Royal-wedding-poem-the-verdict.html
Judy Evans
Cardiff
--- On Fri, 29/4/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] The Thing I Thought I Would Not Watch
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 29 April, 2011, 8:12
> http://www.celebuzz.com/2011-04-29/royal-wedding-livestream-watch-history-happen-here-video/
>
> So here I am, after midnight and after tennis, winding down
> with a beer, watching "history" happen. It turns out
> that the current understanding of pomp and circumstance,
> audience-wise, is some version of Mardi Gras. Don't
> get caught without a Union Jack dart in your hair do.
> I wondered what poetry came of this. Even the Daily
> Torygraph seems to like the offering:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8478333/Poet-laureate-pens-a-poem-for-the-Royal-wedding.html
>
> 'strawdinry.
>
> David Ritchie,
> off to bed soon in
> Portland,
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