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~ Fall 2001 ~ Susan Tichy
Week 10: Oct 29:
Ma Language is Disgraceful:
Tom Leonard &
Vernacular Scots
ach
well
all
livin language is sacred
fuck
thi lohta thim
-Tom
Leonard-
Poems
~ Secondary ~ General
Schedule ~ Back to Week 9
~ On to Week 11
Core
Reading: Poems:
Tom
Leonard:
Poems
passed out in class.
CD at
Reserve Desk: Nora's Place
Please
listen to these tracks:
5:
Storm Damage
6-7:
A Priest Got on at Merkland Street
8:
Honest (This is an essay on writing.)
12:
Parokial / teatime / jist ti let yi no / yon night
15:
14 Glasgow Poems (includes poems from Unrelated Incidents, Ghostie
Men & others)
16:
The Performance
17:
The Rainbow Of
18:
Nora’s Place (This is optional. It’s another sequence inside the head of
character, in the manner of “A Priest Got on at Merkland Street” -- this
time a young married woman.)
From
Poems handed out in class last week:
Ian
Hamilton Finlay: reread poems from Glasgow Beasts An a Burd
Robert
Garioch: reread Heard in the Gardens
Edwin
Morgan: 3 Glasgow Sonnets, Glasgow 5 March 1971, Glasgow November 1971
Kathleen
Jamie: Forget It
Alison
Kermack: The Shadow Minister, Askinfurrit, Time and Again
Robert
Alan Jamieson: 19.11 hrs, 22.59, Resistin the National Psychosis (April
9th 1992)
Core
Reading: Interviews & Secondary:
Leonard:
Copy Shop, copied separately: “The Locust Tree in Flower”
Leonard:
handed out with poems: “Honest.” He reads this essay on the CD.
Poems
~ Secondary ~ General
Schedule ~ Back to Week 9
~ On to Week 11
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