[John Isbell]

Figgy pudding can't be guaranteed.

[Allen Tice]

John, I was addressing Walter. Do you speak for Boskone too?

[John Isbell]

Au contraire. Figgy pudding can’t be guaranteed as a general principle. It is known.

John

[Allen Tice]

The old "argumentum ad verecundiam” fallacy, again.

[John Isbell]

Allen, I see you won't go until you've got some. So be it.

John

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[Orwn Acra]

Originally Posted by Allen Tice

Walter, is your book as weirdly (I mean that as praise) lexicolic as I might expect? We crave a sample or figgy pudding.

Several of its poems have been workshopped in non-Met, so you have had your pudding and eaten it too.

[John Isbell]

Congratulations, Walter - that’s a very good feeling!

John

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Originally Posted by Orwn Acra

Always the bridesmaid!

(In other news, my first book is finished and I'm spending the summer taking a respite from poetry. Phew!)

Oh, but that's very cool. Congratulations (and who wants to be the bride anyway - this way you get the kudos but don't get tied).

I look forward very much to reading your book once it's out.

Sarah-Jane

[Jayne Osborn]

Hey, come on, folks... this isn't an extension of The Accomplished Members! (See post no.1) We already have a board dedicated to publishing successes.

This thread is specifically for other lovely things going on in our lives.

(Party-pooper) Jayne

[Ann Drysdale]

I don't think this was an announcement of publishing success, Jayne; more of a whoop-de-doo! at having finished the grunt-work on the book and thus having room for some of those other lovely things.

We can sing it as a sea shanty (all together now...)

Soon may the publisher come
Delivering Walter's encomium
And then, when the dealing is done
He'll put it on Acc.Mem.


And here's the tune to help us with our melodious unanimity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLiNQhQr4G4
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