Space Poetry

[Michael Crook]

I agree - if enough of us suggest this they're bound
to check it out. I notice they also have a 'Poems on
the Underground' section. Calvert's 'Circle Line'
would be perfect!!!

Mick



--- Jill Strobridge <jill.strobridge at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
wrote:

> I think this is an excellent place to try and raise
> the profile of
> Bob Calvert's poetry.  I was going to suggest "First
> Landing on
> Medusa" but I see that Edwin Morgan's "First Men on
> Mercury" is
> there and since both poems seem to share a common
> concept I voted
> for Starfarers Despatch and in the comments section
> said something
> about it depicting the unromantic reality of work in
> space and
> included the publication date and collection title.
>   They
> probably won't find a copy but it might prompt
> someone to go
> looking!
>
> jill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Medford" <nickmedford at HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:31 AM
> Subject: HW: Space Poetry
>
>
> >A potentially novel way to publicise the new
> single...
> >
> >
>
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1561332,00.html
> >
> > A vote for "The Starfarer's Despatch" by Robert
> Calvert seems in
> > order...
> >
> > Won't win in a million years, of course, but might
> garner some
> > media
> > attention.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
>




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