Marketing Poetry -again

[abu nuwas]

Roger McGough seems to be making money from it, apart from TV and radio. What is the consensus about cabbages?

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014...f-comments

[Erthona]

"When I eat cabbage
I compute like Charles Babbage!"

Doesn't take much of a poet to write such lines. The proof? I am not much of a poet and I wrote it.


"It's a joy to be old.
The dog dead and the car sold" -Roger McGough

dale the rhymer

[bena]

meh...if he wants to make money that way, good for him.

I personally wouldn't compromise the art. But that's just my opinion. I don't get paid *often, or well

[abu nuwas]

meh...if he wants to make money that way, good for him.

I personally wouldn't compromise the art. But that's just my opinion. I don't get paid *often, or well

I would compromise anything for a few bob. I thought the comments about the story, betrayed some idea that it was wrong for a writer to succeed -- or envy. Money can achieve a lot. For years, the UK had no chess grandmaster. Then, a banker put up a huge prize -which involved the best of the Brits playing each other. Before long, you couldn't move for grandmasters...well, there have been a few since.

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Dale

Wake up! This is your moment, what you have been born for! Your family and friends will see you in a different light! Just have a go with Walmart --you'll see, I feel it in my bones!

[Erthona]

Sam Walton, no friend I'd rather have instead,
'cept he got to old and now he's dead!


dale the the money maker, cha ching!

[ellajam]

I'd love to see some poetry on the shelves. Years ago when I rode the subways they would put some up with the ads.

Maybe the shopper contributions will raise the level of the poetry, it would be nice if they moved away from "cute."

[Erthona]

Ode to ellajam

We have pears and prunes and yams,
but the best item in stock is ellajam.
Tasty on your fingers, tasty on your toes,
put it in your mouth at night
before your eyelids close.


dale the rhymer

[ellajam]

Ode to ellajam

We have pears and prunes and yams,
but the best item in stock is ellajam.
Tasty on your fingers, tasty on your toes,
put it in your mouth at night
before your eyelids close.


dale the rhymer

Makes me want to bake some yams, see, it works.

[milo]

Roger McGough seems to be making money from it, apart from TV and radio. What is the consensus about cabbages?

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014...f-comments

I wonder how much he has to pay them to put his poetry there. It might be worth it if it wasn't too much.

[billy]

they hired him but you knew that didn't you

i think it could bring a smile to someone's face. and it might get an person or two to find out a little more about poetry.
i'm all for it. that said, there's enough public domain poetry out there that they didn't have to pay one for poetry.

[rayheinrich]

From that Guardian piece:

Waitrose is to unleash an unlikely weapon in the supermarkets'
cut-throat battle for business when it anounces plans to display
poetry throughout its stores as part of a year-long campaign which,
it says, is aimed at reducing the drudgery of the regular shop.

Neither poems nor herds of angels can help a business that thinks
itself an inducer of drudgery.

He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me,
‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in
Capernaum, do also here in your country.’” - Luke 4:23