The issue of fundng is a big one when it comes to actually getting a project in
poetry off the ground. There is much discussion about the availability of
funding for
the University Professor of
Literature and the need for funding to meet the unseen
costs ... certainly its possible to get a sabbatical and a government deal for
funding to do it all in a given time frame.
I must admit I began to think that it would never happen and that the final instalment
would never come but now with further assurance from my colleagues at the University
I am more confident of the funding being forthcoming. I have spent the entire day
in discussion with colleagues on cost cutting, walking instead of using public transpoprt, cutting back on the food bills, and generally speaking being totally budget aware and budget--
successful. With the current circus at British Banks and the run on money i.e. investors savings or as Britain prefers to call them /pensioners/and I am not called that but a
Retired Teacher ... I began to worry about getting the paperwork right and the reference
code must be phoned in straight away and the
check on all aspects of this enormous
plan of funding for literature must be seen through to a successful and immediate completion.
There is a tendency for people to block everything and that awful academic crime of procrastination is creeping in to education and must be prevented from doing so at all
costs ... so its get up off your seat and do your best in the front line and get the funding through without the desperate state of
endless delays ... life is too short for endless delays ... and once its through we can all breathe a sigh of relief ..
Literature and Poetry Funding .. will check the bank account tomorrow .. great stuff from the University of Southampton and other Universities such as the Webster (American) University of Vienna Austria, The University of Salzburg Austria, and Charles University in Prague Czech Republic .. ithanks for your help ... its a far cry from the old days of that letter in the post with the money arriving on Friday in the last possible post ... but nevertheless it was welcome and well received by we Professors of Literature and Lecturers of Poetry/Literature ... we positively are "joyous" ... great stuff ...
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