[lit-ideas] importance of elsewhere; peotry calendar - last week
- From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:44:48 +0100
Robert wrote:
>elsewhere is a big place.
It's also an important place:
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The Importance of Elsewhere by Philip Larkin
Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,
Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,
Insisting so on difference, made me welcome:
Once that was recognised, we were in touch
Their draughty streets, end-on to hills, the faint
Archaic smell of dockland, like a stable,
The herring-hawker's cry, dwindling, went
To prove me separate, not unworkable.
Living in England has no such excuse:
These are my customs and establishments
It would be much more serious to refuse.
Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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Last week of poetry month coming up:
April 26: David Ritchie
April 27: Chris Bruce
April 30: Erin Holder
Best, MN
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