tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post8991566843300716486..comments2023-07-22T15:44:42.859+01:00Comments on More about the song - rambling with Rachel Fox: Dynamite shoes and daisy chainsRachel Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-59899471930975206712009-03-12T13:26:00.000+00:002009-03-12T13:26:00.000+00:00I'm just getting time to read this now, Rachel, lo...I'm just getting time to read this now, Rachel, love the whole post...I missed the radio program, and your post has so piqued my curiosity as I didn't know anything about this poet...am following up the poem links and sipping tea and enjoying a mini-siesta with laptop while flat out on sofa! Hardly nothing to beat it... ; ) Thanks.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990807765195683301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-8944665087019480412009-03-12T08:09:00.000+00:002009-03-12T08:09:00.000+00:00Lovely stories Dick. I am well into the stage alre...Lovely stories Dick. I am well into the stage already where one of my main concerns in life is the quest for the decent cup of tea. Strong (but not too strong), and just regular tea (none of the fancy stuff)...it is the taste of home, Popeye's dose of fortitude, salvation in a cup (or mug). I have been considering writing a cup of tea poem for a while but then snuck it into my Larkin and England poem instead. Tea poem could still come though...<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-31942846180037130422009-03-11T22:09:00.000+00:002009-03-11T22:09:00.000+00:00I was. I also remember him from the 1963 Aldermast...I was. I also remember him from the 1963 Aldermaston March. He was standing by the side of the road with Mike Horowitz (who was my current teen hero, having seen him read with Pete Brown at a poetry and jazz recital in Leeds only a few months before.) I sauntered casually over and stood around for a while, breathing the same air and hoping that the passing marchers would assume that I was some juvenile iconoclast. (I was wearing my Gregory Corso donkey jacket so I thought there might be a chance.) As I recall, their conversation was about where they could get a decent cup of tea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-49984181243657455402009-03-11T07:46:00.000+00:002009-03-11T07:46:00.000+00:00Were you there, Dick? xWere you there, Dick? <BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-35395524846004931262009-03-11T07:44:00.000+00:002009-03-11T07:44:00.000+00:00I remember Adrian Mitchell from the Albert Hall ev...I remember Adrian Mitchell from the Albert Hall event in 1965 so clearly. There was so powerful a sense of being on the cusp of change at that time and his reading of 'Tell Me Lies...' was almost like hearing The Internationale sung on the barricades! Definitely A Moment, that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-65263345751756026722009-03-10T21:07:00.000+00:002009-03-10T21:07:00.000+00:00Well, let me know when you've done it, Scotland's ...Well, let me know when you've done it, Scotland's number one poet. I'd like to see it.<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-41358342219092935712009-03-10T20:49:00.000+00:002009-03-10T20:49:00.000+00:00He was a great friend of Chrys Salt and the Bakeho...He was a great friend of Chrys Salt and the Bakehouse Arts Centre in Gatehouse and was down for their peace weekend last year. Never met him, I'm afraid, though I admire him. Have just been asked to contribute to an anthology in his memory actually- will try and come up with something he'd approve of.Hugh McMillanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05353561780315527799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-53393661724780316582009-03-10T18:12:00.000+00:002009-03-10T18:12:00.000+00:00Thanks SW - I know you're a fan too.And Art, thank...Thanks SW - I know you're a fan too.<BR/><BR/>And Art, thanks for that comment - I really appreciate it! You're right...the vitriol...the spleen...there's enough crap in life - who needs to make more?<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-3607133534343948902009-03-10T16:07:00.000+00:002009-03-10T16:07:00.000+00:00Okay, now I'll got hunt up some Mitchell to read. ...Okay, now I'll got hunt up some Mitchell to read. Thanks for the intro.<BR/><BR/>You also wrote:<BR/><BR/>"Some of you may think all this is irrelevant...it's all just about the poems isn't it? Well, not always no. I tend to think it is important to be the best writer/poet you can be but that it is just as important to be the best person you can be too (it doesn't always work but it's important to try...in my book anyway)."<BR/><BR/>I wish more poets felt that way. There are certainly lots of poets who are lousy human beings, full of vitriol and spleen. One tends to think the ego has dominated the muse in some cases.<BR/><BR/>Basho, the great haiku master, viewed poetry as a way. A way of being in the world, and as much about being a fully human person as about being a good poet. I think those values echo with your own. I wish more poets felt the same way.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-2299817473525167012009-03-09T21:39:00.000+00:002009-03-09T21:39:00.000+00:00I heard the programme and loved it. I'm glad you w...I heard the programme and loved it. I'm glad you went up and talked with him after the reading - not annoying, I'm sure he would have welcomed it. Having met him briefly twice myself, I can only agree about his strong, positive presence. Agree too about him being an 'international' poet. He cuts right across the boundaries with his passion, his conviction, his directness, his tenderness, his anger and his humour. <BR/><BR/>AM, RIP.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-63887109877241710792009-03-09T19:38:00.000+00:002009-03-09T19:38:00.000+00:00Comments things playing up a bit today it seems......Comments things playing up a bit today it seems...that was just me...again.<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-12240549529255764082009-03-09T19:36:00.000+00:002009-03-09T19:36:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-35857665883407119182009-03-09T19:35:00.000+00:002009-03-09T19:35:00.000+00:00Maybe I should speak to Bloodaxe about commission....Maybe I should speak to Bloodaxe about commission...or just ask for some free books...or hey...a book deal (tried that...no joy...).<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-42688923539016802372009-03-09T19:26:00.001+00:002009-03-09T19:26:00.001+00:00What a great post Rachel: your obvious enthusiasm ...What a great post Rachel: your obvious enthusiasm brims from it and swept me along. I think I might just go and buy a collected on the strength of all this - thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-22946051388833229272009-03-09T19:26:00.000+00:002009-03-09T19:26:00.000+00:00A great tribute post, to be honest I only heard of...A great tribute post, to be honest I only heard of him fairly recently but you've certainly piqued my interest!Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-87387556775987841732009-03-09T17:59:00.000+00:002009-03-09T17:59:00.000+00:00Agree Rachel - I love his work.Agree Rachel - I love his work.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-61046850136115970272009-03-09T17:15:00.000+00:002009-03-09T17:15:00.000+00:00Thanks all. I'm even considering reading a Mitchel...Thanks all. I'm even considering reading a Mitchell poem at the thing I'm doing in Dundee on Sunday (as well as some of my own). I'm leaning towards 'Death is smaller than I thought"...not one of the overtly political ones. Might change my mind though.<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-47413071161355839042009-03-09T16:52:00.000+00:002009-03-09T16:52:00.000+00:00A great post Rachel, and a fitting tribute to one ...A great post Rachel, and a fitting tribute to one of life's nice guys.Colin Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15627539650929533832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-66693839126761796592009-03-09T11:52:00.000+00:002009-03-09T11:52:00.000+00:00Och! My message just disappeared!What I was saying...Och! My message just disappeared!<BR/><BR/>What I was saying was that this was a great wee post. That I've loved Adrian Mitchell for ages and ages. That the Wheelbarrow poem was the first of his I read. And that I was very sad when he died... <BR/><BR/>(Also I didn't hear the programme... stupid me.)deemikayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01421704728979191339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-18558960773965086702009-03-09T10:58:00.000+00:002009-03-09T10:58:00.000+00:00I love his poetry (Blake's too in fact) but never ...I love his poetry (Blake's too in fact) but never knew much about himself, as a person. And I don't get radio signals way out here, so thanks for this review of BBC's tribute! I enjoyed reading about it.Susan at Stony Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385202649291774852noreply@blogger.com