On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Richard Edwards wrote:
 
> What do you think of Geoffrey Hill's readings?
 
- Long time since I've heard him, which suggests that I wasn't terribly
impressed, so you'd best treat what follows with caution. Yes, I remember
the line-end crashing, and also a certain Gielgudesque syntax crashing (or
perhaps a Peter Sellars reads Gielgud in Hard Day's Night piece of
fragmentation, which I personally don't find helpful. I heard him at what
I think was the first public reading of Mercian Hymns, and it struck me
that apart from this rather mannered fragmentation, his intonation was
rather laboured - fitting somewhat into the "Preacherman" mode I referred
to earlier. He may have done all kinds of other things since then.
 
> By the way, when are you going to add something to the Bunting website at
> Durham?
 
- good point. We're hoping to pay someone to make a spiffy job of it for
all the Bunting Centenary events coming up next year - nor all we have to
do is get the money for said activity. I won't start to bodge it myself
until that option is declared dead.
 
> And another thing (assuming ignorant questions are ok on a specialist list
> provided they're off-topic): what is "lang-po"? Is it something to do with
> the Prynne / Crozier crowd or am I hopelessly out of date?
 
- Hang on, mate, people are doing theses on this sort of stuff, the
taxonomy of poets is a complex affair... I can't offer a current
definition of langpo, but it can't be confused with Prynne / Crozier etc,
who are campo, that is (again a losely defined group) those associated
with the so-called Cambridge School...
 
OK -
 
RC