Steam coming out of ears....

[sheenaghpugh]

.. because I've just come across a review of an anthology launch that refers to "surprisingly imaginative poems from old ladies". (Yes, it is by a man). Am now mentally listing Old Ladies I Have Known And/Or Read, such as U A Fanthorpe, Rosie Bailey, Louise Glück, Ruth Bidgood, Elma Mitchell, any one of whom had enough imagination in her little finger to surprise, nay astonish, certain pipsqueaks. Grr.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

And you know that he wouldn't have described, say, Thomas Hardy's later poetry as "surprisingly imaginative for an old man". Who is this pimple, so that I can avoid him?

[sheenaghpugh]

Twas here. The guy is sometimes more sensible than that, but this was crass.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (It doesn't look any better in context.)