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JookyChapJookyChap Frets: 4234
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No, not a Yewtree thing, he's died.

Real shame, had the chance to work with him a few years ago and he was a really nice bloke - very funny despite the image..

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  • not_the_djnot_the_dj Frets: 7306
    edited August 2013

    Sad.

    I can't claim to be a massive reader of his works, but I got his Beowulf translation when that came out, and went to a reading (I mentioned this in a FB post earlier) with a strange mix of literary types and prog fans.

     

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  • BasherBasher Frets: 1212
    edited August 2013
    A sad loss.
    I make no claim to know anything about poetry but whenever I hear him reading his work, I'm mesmerised.
    I swear that I can smell the damp earth in this one...


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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7751
    Studied one of his poems in GCSE English... little other experience of his work besides that. Sad news though. :(
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • PolarityManPolarityMan Frets: 7324
    I had to study that poem about digging in English at school.


    It was effective in that reading it is almost as shitty as actually digging a hole.
    ဈǝᴉʇsɐoʇǝsǝǝɥɔဪቌ
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  • BogwhoppitBogwhoppit Frets: 2754
    I studied his version of the Burial at Thebes and some of his other works for my degree. Pretty good stuff it was.


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  • chillidoggychillidoggy Frets: 17137
    edited September 2013
    Never heard of the bloke.


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  • LixartoLixarto Frets: 1618
    chillidoggy said:
    Never heard of the bloke.
    Really?

    The most notable Irish poet since Yeats. A sad, sad loss.
    "I can see you for what you are; an idiot barely in control of your own life. And smoking weed doesn't make you cool; it just makes you more of an idiot."
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  • chillidoggychillidoggy Frets: 17137
    Nope. Thus I won't be missing him.


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  • vizviz Frets: 10759
    Lol chilli, we know you're joking :)
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  • chillidoggychillidoggy Frets: 17137
    No, for once, I'm not. Never heard of the bloke, Viz.


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  • vizviz Frets: 10759
    edited September 2013
    I am surprised. But then my dad hadn't heard of the rolling stones, marilyn monroe, or frank bruno till I told him a couple of years ago.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • chillidoggychillidoggy Frets: 17137
    Who?


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  • vizviz Frets: 10759
    My dad.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • chillidoggychillidoggy Frets: 17137
    Oh, yeah. I remember now.


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