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05-10-2015, 09:32 AM
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Someone I have never heard of with 1,908 followers just retweeted for Alicia from @amjuster.
C'mon people!--Maryann can't be the ONLY brave one here!!!
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05-10-2015, 11:07 AM
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Don Share, the editor of Poetry, just retweeted for Alicia too.
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05-10-2015, 01:19 PM
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Simon Armitage has joined the race.
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05-10-2015, 02:00 PM
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Sorry - posted in error.
Last edited by Ann Drysdale; 05-10-2015 at 02:37 PM.
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05-10-2015, 05:48 PM
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Alex is on the bandwagon, opened a Twitter account, and tweeted for Alicia!
So if you have been asking yourself, "What would Alex do?", now you know.
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05-13-2015, 07:13 AM
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And for some reason, New Formalism (so-called) gets associated with right-wing politics.... Seriously, dial it back.
It's a really strong group of candidates this time around, and Alicia is a worthy contender.
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Yea Tories! Hope this means David wins too.
Scotland seems to have done a complete about-face since the referendum on cutting loose. Any explanation for that?
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05-13-2015, 08:25 AM
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Re Scotland cutting loose. Might be connected with the collapse in the oil-price. Scotland cut loose cannot afford to keep the North Sea going.
Do you think it is a strong group of candidates, Quincy. I don't really. Alicia is undoubtedly the best. Oh, and most formalists in the 20th century were on the right, Yeats, Eliot, Larkin and the later Auden.
Wendy Cope, me...
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05-13-2015, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by John Whitworth
Do you think it is a strong group of candidates, Quincy. I don't really.
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Come on, John. Sure, it's fine to campaign for friends, root for the home team, etc., (and I do think that's honorable), but one must keep some measure of proportion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wole_Soyinka
Thanks,
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05-13-2015, 08:39 AM
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Scotland seems to have done a complete about-face since the referendum on cutting loose. Any explanation for that?
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I don't think support for the SNP has increased all that dramatically since the referendum. What one needs to bear in mind is that the first-past-the-post system means that you can easily win a seat even though you only net a third of the vote.
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05-13-2015, 09:14 AM
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What Bill said. And I prefer Auden's work in the 1930s, anyway. But that wasn't my point, which more has to do with the at most tangential relevance of the SNP's electoral performance to who'd make the best Oxford Professor of Poetry, particularly given that Soyinka's Nigerian and Alicia's American.
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