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02-09-2015, 04:42 AM
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Ross, I believe he's one and the same. He accepted two of mine for Quadrant.
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02-09-2015, 05:53 AM
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Catherine I see Quadrant's online, It's a leading intellectual magazine in Aussieland, used to be very right wing, but I don't know about now.
Les is great, he's a genius poet and a rough diamond, prone to wearing thongs with socks and stealing all the camembert while nobody's looking. I remember once an interviewer asked him what he'd been doing lately and he replied 'Going through the murk.' gotta love him.
Wonderful that he accepted your poems.
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02-09-2015, 06:18 AM
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Important to note that Australian thongs are not the same as European thongs.
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02-09-2015, 06:18 AM
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it was financed by the CIA, as was the Excellent Encounter. It's nice to know the CIA hs some use in the world.
The Staggers was financed by Russian cash when Michael Foot was editor. The Ambassador used to stuff tenners into his pocket.Or was that the other thing Foot edited, Tribune.
The question is, did any of this influence the content? I rather think not.
If the CIA want to finance me directly I don't mind. And I will take Vladimir Putin's money too.
What is the difference re thongs? And what are budgie-smugglers while we are about it?
Les is the poetry editor of Quadrant and his word is law. In that sense he publishes me. And the Quadrant Book of Poetry is also his. Buy it while stocks last. It is the best anthology of modern poetry. And by no means all formal.
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02-09-2015, 07:41 AM
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Back to the original subject. (I do wish people could keep to the topic instead of making every thread sound like a gaggle of absent-minded geese.)
Catherine McDonald, I was quite interested in this when I read it, as I will be in the US at that time. But the organizers only take cheques in payment, and cheques are no longer used where I live--payments are all electronic, via Paypal or similar or credit cards.
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02-09-2015, 07:52 AM
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Sorry, Janice. I'll get me coat.
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02-09-2015, 07:56 AM
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I knew some innocent lamb would think I was pointing at them. That is what I get for being mealy-mouthed. When will I ever learn?
Forget I ever opened my big mouth.
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02-09-2015, 08:24 AM
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The CIA's problem with Quadrant was that they found it too right-wing and warmongering. I'm not making that up.
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