arcana, canis and the arse

By the way, lest we think the debate over the corrupting democratisation of the blogosphere and its hordes of uneducated oik denizens has gone away, here's a fun snippet:

"Don Paterson 'fucking hates blogs' - in case you were interested..."

Now, why is that? (It strikes me that George Szirtes, for example, doesn't.)

I bet Andy Croft has an idea...

Sorry. I've given you homework. Both poets' essays are really well worth reading, though, and Croft in the New Statesman will raise a laugh. He did in me, anyway. Just what you need on a rainy Sunday.