tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post7262721631158278988..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: Britain Gets a Lesbian Poet LaureateSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-61165414380198607952009-05-04T02:23:00.000-04:002009-05-04T02:23:00.000-04:00Hi Scout...how nice to hear from you. Are you stil...Hi Scout...how nice to hear from you. Are you still alohaing in Paradise? :) I've been so busy with work and exams I haven't been able to visit my favourite blogs as much as I would like to. <br />And you're right about the sexual orientation part. It is a triumph against oppression.<br />As for Sebastien all I can hope for is that he doesn't read this post. And what I wrote about him. OMG.<br />I know I have a better version somewhere but I just can't find it... :)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-38768697030256945152009-05-04T02:18:00.000-04:002009-05-04T02:18:00.000-04:00Hi Torontonian...no I don't think it's a problem n...Hi Torontonian...no I don't think it's a problem now. But it was back then when she was passed up because Blair put pressure on the judges not to choose her.<br />And when you're a lesbian and you come from the Gorbals...which used to be the scariest slum in Scotland...it really is quite an accomplishment. Because the only thing that place was famous for was knife fighting.... :)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-74651480738240505102009-05-02T00:10:00.000-04:002009-05-02T00:10:00.000-04:00sexual orientation has to do with everything when ...sexual orientation has to do with everything when it comes to celebrating a once oh too very oppressed (and still WRONG in too many minds) group....it's political, get it?<br /><br />great score for carole and the dykes and gays and queers and flamers and whatevers. i'm sure there were 'undercover' queers as laureates along the way but oh how grand one can be out and that the labour party is finally labour again. <br /><br />sweet dreams , simon, dream away of you and sebastian together again. keep sending him the white light and say words of protection for him, it's all in the universe's hands and the universe likes to tune in to us silly little humans who tune into the universe :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-32876018585013362882009-05-01T21:54:00.000-04:002009-05-01T21:54:00.000-04:00Question: What does sexual orientation have to do...Question: What does sexual orientation have to do with writing poetry? Or, was the matter just set up for the scribblers and the gutter press?<br /><br />Sexual orientation has nothing to do with pentameter, scansion, allegory or anything else.<br /><br />Someone's doing the lurid thing again just like CFRB radio in Toronto and the crackpots at the soon to be dead National Pestilence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com