Hello gentle reader Just wading through the stack of sinister e-mails and I notice a whole discussion a rhumblin' on about Sylvia Plath and I thought I'd stick my oar in. I had a brief encounter with her poetry a few years ago. Recommended to me by a friend I read a selection of her poetry, but before long I realised it was one of those things that you're supposed to read and think about. Analyse it maybe and then finally "get" it. I couldn't be bothered so I decided to read them as if she was just a kind old lady who kept bees and had a big dog. Looked at in this way, her poems are delightfully whimsical and perhaps suggest she was a fan of early British wrestling. She went to the hospital for a hip replacement but she didn't like the atmosphere there. Everyone so miserable and the cold draughts weren't fixed when she told the nurses. I saw my friend a few weeks later but he told me that I just didn't get her work. "Ah", I said, "maybe it is you who doesn't understand, do you see, do you, do you, do you, do you? Ah!". He never recommended any more poetry to me. Personally I like John Hegley. He makes me laugh on the bus. I told myself that I'd have some B+S content for this e-mail so I'll just mention them hear at the end. Have you heard them? they're really quite good you know. Got a good beat. Thanks for your time and think of me always, Jon. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+