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amner
16th Jun 2003, 12:21
A slow weekend on Palimpsest, despite three new arrivals; so welcome Bubbles, Moaning_M and dark_angel, glad you found us.

I wonder if it's time to introduce the world to Rodney Bilson?
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NottyImp
16th Jun 2003, 13:22
Very quiet everywhere, mate. I'm beginning to suspect people might actually be doing some work out there in Britain.

Rodney Bilson? Why does that name seem to ring a bell?

Just wondering what I should read next...
amner
16th Jun 2003, 13:37
Oh Lordy! I hope not.

I lived in Ely a couple of years back and got involved with the local community website. In the darker corners of it, there's the Collected Works of self-styled People's Poet, Rodney Bilson. Check him out here (http://www.ely.org.uk/RegDixon/rodney.html). Unfortunately, I don't think it's a pastiche/p***take.

My favourite is the poem about the cathedral which includes the classic line:

You are big and strong and you are the third largest Cathedral in the country

Can't compete with that.
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NottyImp
16th Jun 2003, 13:41
Yes! You've mentioned it before, yonks ago on Impnet! The man is a genius...
amner
16th Jun 2003, 13:44
Mind you, all those ISBN numbers are genuine, so he's published, and I ain't. Says nothing for me does it?

Still:

I miss you most when I'm sad, Diana...

Goodness me.

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NottyImp
16th Jun 2003, 13:48
Having an ISBN number doesn't mean you're published by someone else. You can get an ISBN number if you self-publish (my sister has 10 allocated from her first publication, and can use them as she sees fit, as long as she sends copies to the British Library, I think).
amner
16th Jun 2003, 13:51
They check out on Amazon though (or is that stlll part of the deal?).

Anyway, one of the collections costs £70! Seventy!

It's number 678,000 in their sales rank.

Go Rodders!

Evil in Kosovo by a madman called President Milosevic.
This lunatic has no feelings for no-one...
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NottyImp
16th Jun 2003, 14:03
Ah, not sure about that... my sister is listed on Amazon, but through a publisher. Not sure of that's possible if you self-publish, but I suppose you could claim to be an independent imprint, use your ISBN numbers and who would be any the wiser?
Colyngbourne
16th Jun 2003, 14:05
Dashing out so haven't got time to pursue the remarkable poetics of Rodney but it was dead, dead, dead at the weekend. In fact every weekend I have browsed around, no-one is about at Palimpsest (and I'm reluctant to show signs of talking to myself here! :wink: )
NottyImp
16th Jun 2003, 14:16
I wouldn't be suprised to find that Mr Bilson's publishers are in fact imprints owned by... Mr Bilson. A price of £70 smacks of self-publishing to me.
amner
16th Jun 2003, 14:26
Just been having a wander 'round that whole website again. There is a very good 'Net soap called Cauliflower Drove (http://www.ely.org.uk/collie/prologue.html) on there and - ahem - a 12 part Sherlock Holmes story that I did. I can only direct you to Collie (http://www.ely.org.uk/collie/prologue.html) (as we used to call it), but am allowed to reprint the Holmes story. Anyone want to see it?
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NottyImp
16th Jun 2003, 14:38
Hey, there's your Xmas ghost story on there as well. Reprint old Sherlock by all means, although I wouldn't put it in twelve separate strings under "Features".
amner
16th Jun 2003, 14:45
a version of the ghost story...

Yep, OK, I'll bung 'im up.
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NottyImp
16th Jun 2003, 14:54
So long as a city has a cathedral on a hill, it can have one of Al's ghost stories. :wink:
amner
16th Jun 2003, 14:56
Cheeky beggar
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amner
16th Jun 2003, 15:23
First half now up
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amner
16th Jun 2003, 15:33
...and the second half.

Whole thing here (http://palimpsest.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=163)
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wshaw
16th Jun 2003, 23:08
Rodney Bilson!

What a god. Thanks amner. The man is a vers libre McGonagal.

Ely Cathedral...

"Your nearest neighbour is Peterborough Cathedral,
You can see youselves on clear summer days..."

Or Evil in Kosovo's gut-wrenching depiction of ethic cleansing:

"Many have had to move out of Kosovo"
Wavid
17th Jun 2003, 10:11
Bilson truly is a legend. It's his face that makes me laugh the most.

I actually live in Ely, and find it appalling that Bilson is allowed space on the City's website.

Mind you, it's a pretty turd site, apart from Amner's contributions, of course.

it was dead, dead, dead at the weekend. In fact every weekend I have browsed around, no-one is about at Palimpsest

i think most Palimpsesters use the internet at work to access it - I wouldn't spend my own money reading through this rubbish!!!! :wink: