Start the week and on your birthday like me tune in turn on and listen with
interest to Front Row .... not Front Line! Mark Lawson ... and his guest
Pam Ayres ... then decide what''s what in this respect.
Pam Ayres is reported to be a "best selling
poet" and her greatest work is entitled ...
I wish I had looked after my teeth! ... fairly basic stuff you would comment but
nevertheless when Pam Ayres reads this poem it comes alive it is fun to listen to and
engage with.
Pam Ayres announced that she was something of a spy in her
career before after or during her poetic stretch in poems
poetry and the poetic stanza groups which I belong to ... she
never felt however that she was anything to write home about as she was a mere desk
clerk in the
Spying Game and she never was an active spy "in the field" unlike some people I know ... she was challenged recently by some official or other and took a down turn in
relation to her claims for being a local spy ... Matta Harie ... she is likened to ...I read all about Matta Harie an International Spy who inspired Tatler Magazine London to do a clothes show on this Spying Theme .. so I wonder is Pam Ayres still spying or has she been deselected and is remembering her great days ...
Afterall even spies must have a Board and somebody on that Board is going to
select: deselect and reselect and elect and reelect and so on ... or is the phrase
still applicable ... "once a spy always a spy" I guess for Pam Ayres summing up
that is probably true, but for the rest of "Intelligence" and "spies" only the
pay packet would count towards your continued commitment to that sort of career.
I suppose its interesting to work out how Pam Ayres managed to combine spying with poetry and her career - long standing - as a poet ... its rather like the Germaine Greer''s feminist tract when girls like us used to worry about combining bringing up a family with a career in teaching ... the answer always was ... always put the family first ... so I suppose Pam Ayres always had to put the Poetry first and the spying just clocked in as usual.
Ayres had an amusing line or two on the now "stepped down" John Prescott ..
A great evening''s entertainment on BBC
Radio with Mark Lawson''s Front Row a radio talk show ... incidentally I bumped into Mark Lawson in Northern Ireland ... I thought he knew I was something of a poet myself as well as a teacher ... but then again NO .. I gather he was off after Seamus Heaney the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature ... way back .. a long time ago ... still prizes like that are hard to get ... to latterly all Congratulations to Heaney on his
achievement .... better late than never ...excellent stuff .... keep on reading the blogs ...
Published: September 20, 2007
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