Well, more a poem for David Mueller, the creep recently
convicted of
sexual assault on singer Taylor Swift. It is by Denis Glover and
it goes like this:
I’m an Odd Fish
I’m an Odd Fish
A No-Hoper:
Among Men a Snapper,
Among Women
A Groper.
This poem from his collection Dancing to My Tune (Catspaw Press, 1974: my copy is signed by Lauris Edmond for some reason) is perhaps not as funny now as
it seemed at the time.
So here is Taylor Swift with “Shake It Off”:
That is odd, Stephen. But Lauris and Denis were close around then. It must have been her copy? I remember (how?) visiting him when he was living in a caravan in Motueka or somewhere like that. With Lyn, his American wife, and a gargle of vodka bottles.
ReplyDeleteYes, odd. Lauris as you will know compiled and edited that book for him. Can't imagine she would have given her own copy away - she and I were friendly in the late 80s but I think I bought this at the Auckland UBS in the year of publication. Maybe she did that clever author's trick (even though just editor/midwife) of signing every copy available so the bookseller could not return them to the publisher. In this case, probably her or him.
ReplyDeleteNo I didn't know that. But she would not have given her own copy away so your supposition is probably correct. How far away and long ago those days seem now.
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