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Channel Services: Tech support
5th April 2013 News
Getting products onto shelves and into businesses isn't as simple as making something and shipping it out any more. At least, not for those businesses that want to succeed and thrive.
Working with complementary firms can help with staffing, supply costs, ecommerce, education and much more. It can pay to bring in outside help.
From trade associations like CompTIA to channel marketing firms, to merchandising specialists and retail or data analysts, whatever you need, the channel offers.
Here's a handy A-Z guide of some of the finest service companies around:
AVANGATE
www.avangate.com
Contact: www.avangate.com/company/contact.php
Designed for selling software through any channel, using any model, Avangate's commerce integrated solution includes a full-featured, modular eCommerce platform, a Channel Manager system, as well as a global affiliate network that spans 35,000 software affiliates.
The Avangate SkyChannel Manager module delivers a partner order and revenue management solution for partner administration, channel management, commercial terms management, order and customer license management and automation.
It provides software and SaaS vendors with visibility to cross channel performance, fine-grained control of incentives and plans and end- to-end customer management through indirect channels.
Additionally, the SkyChannel Manager makes it easy to add and manage partners through a centralised partner administration console to effectively manage distributors, VARs, OEMs, retailers, as well as service providers. Avangate's Sky Channel Manage helps vendors manage their entire distribution channel efficiently and reduce administration costs.
BRIGANTIA PARTNERS
www.brigantia.com
Contact: +44 (0) 2030 568 030
Formed in 1998, as a traditional IT buying group, Brigantia Partners plc is now a network of IT and communications experts that supply to the small business and consumer markets.
Brigantia exists to add value to its members' businesses either by reducing costs or by increasing sales. Beyond increasing profits, Brigantia aims to add capital value to its members' businesses.
Most IT business owners will probably never unlock the true value of the companies they have spent many years building: Brigantia exists to change this.
Business value is frequently about recurring revenue.
Brigantia provides its members with a range of essential services for the business and consumer markets – Brigantia says this generates recurring revenue at great prices to the end user with healthy margins for its members.
Brigantia has formed strategic partnerships with vendors and distributors which provide its members with prices which allow them to compete directly with etailers and multiples.
This, coupled with the advice that Brigantia members are able to provide, gives members the edge and helps secures their position as the local computer experts.
CHANNEL ASSIST
www.channelassist.co.uk
Contact: +44 23 8000 1120
Channel Assist is a 360° retail agency specialising in consumer electronics, IT and telco.
The company's retail expertise combined with extensive retail relationships at head office, regional and store level means it is well positioned to drive both sell-in and sales out for its partners.
It offers a service mix of channel development, PR and trade marketing that focuses on generating product placement and creative marketing campaigns to maximise sales opportunity whilst Channel Assist's POS design and production services, combined with its comprehensive field marketing solutions, are focused on generating sales from the shop floor.
All activities at the point of sale are supported via communication with retail commercial and planning teams and conversely all sell-in strategies leverage knowledge of the challenges at the point of sale to create impactful retail engagements. This 360° approach is what enables Channel Assist to integrate knowledge and relationships throughout a retail estate and maximise impact for both the vendor and the retailer.
www.comptia.org/uk
As a non-profit trade association advancing the global interests of IT professionals and companies, CompTIA focuses its programmes on four main areas: education, certification, advocacy and philanthropy. It:
– Educates the IT channel: Educational resources, comprising online guides, webinars, market research, business mentoring, open forums and networking events, help members grow businesses to become the 'best in class'.
– Certifies the IT workforce: It provides technology-neutral and vendor-neutral IT certifications.
– Advocates on behalf of the IT industry: It brings the power of small and medium IT businesses together as a united voice.
– Gives back through philanthropy: In addition to its foundation enabling disadvantaged populations to gain the skills they need for employment in the IT industry, CompTIA provides support to IT-based charities chosen by the members.
CompTIA's vision is shaped by more than 2,000 members and more than 2,000 business partners. It's driven by its members and led by an elected board of industry professionals.
COMPUTER 2000
www.computer2000.co.uk
Computer 2000 delivers both retailers and vendors a best-in-class merchandising and management service through in-house category and business management, strategic and tactical field marketing and marketing insight and intelligence.
This service has been developed with the aim of maximising retail sales, minimising costs and delivering the best in-store experience for the customer.
It includes in-store POS setup and maintenance including replenishment, range change management, quarterly performance reviews with store managers and planogram management.
GEM LOGISTICS
www.gem.co.uk/gemlogistics
Gem Logistics provides clients with a complete service in warehousing and supply chain logistics services, looking after vital business-to- business distribution, or taking care of consumers with the prompt, efficient and economic delivery and distribution they expect.
Gem Logistics' main warehouse facility in Raunds, Northamptonshire, is a modern £15m, 250,000 square foot building, with a state-of-the-art security system.
The firm offers a wide range of services that vendors and retailers can pick and choose from, from end user fulfilment to storefront delivery, European or international delivery, import, export, reverse logistics (returns), bespoke packaging, product bundling, container unloading, shrink wrapping, palletising, white label solutions and more.
Frank Ring, business development manager, comments: "One of our major USPs is definitely our flexibility. I think that supply chain in general has become a lot tighter, so stock is going to manufacture later, therefore you only have a short period of time to get it out.
"Our philosophy is 'don't say no'. We'll try and find a solution until we've exhausted every possibility."
GEM CREATIVE
www.gem.co.uk/gemcreative
Gem Creative is Gem Distribution's award-winning in-house creative agency producing bespoke marketing solutions.
Working collaboratively with suppliers and customers, the team produces sophisticated and innovative marketing collateral and retail ready in-store solutions to help maximise product sell- through.
Gem Creative has already built a solid reputation for the quality of design and the breadth of solutions offered and has many projects in place with key vendors to promote products and brands in-store (independent, specialist and chain).
As well as supporting the core sales and logistic functions of Gem UK, Gem Creative also works as a design and PR agency, offering partners the service of a top tier creative agency creating solutions for any objective. It welcomes the opportunity to demonstrate its talents to businesses that might not yet be working with Gem's primary sales and logistics functions.
Gem Creative offers: media buying, trade marketing, PR, retail marketing, in-store solutions, print and digital design services, customised bundles, bespoke packaging, in-house publication 'The Future'.
www.gfk.com/uk
Contact: +44 870 603 8100
GfK is one of the world's leading research companies. Every day, its 12,000+ experts discover new insights into the way people live, think and shop in over 100 countries. It uses the latest technologies and smartest methodologies to help its clients deeply understand the most important people in the world: their customers.
GNR CORPORATION
http://gnr.co.uk
Contact: 0797 6411 467
GNR says helps users make sense of their business' data.
The firm uses your own data and their software to create dashboards, reports and analytics. This essentialy allows firms to organise data into a fabric that can be searched, analysed and visualised whilst adding standardisation and scalability.
GNR believes this frees the IT department from the constant barrage of demands from users who need access to different amounts of data, different data views, ad-hoc reports, and one-off requests for information.
GNR has a pedigree in the channel and is a channel- focussed firm – powered by the following vendors: QlikView, Analyzer from Strategy Companion and Differentia Consulting.
It says its solutions offer the fastest return on investment with clear, accurate reports that replace the static spreadsheet anarchy that exists in too many firms.
Dave Stevinson, vice president, comments: "We specialise in building customised business intelligence and business discovery solutions for the IT channel using industry leading reporting software. These allow the right people to have the right information at the right time in order to make the right decisions."
J2 RETAIL SYSTEMS
www.j2retailsystems.com
J2 Retail Systems is a manufacturer of PC-based touchscreens, LCD touchscreen monitors, point-of-sale hardware and peripherals. It supplies EPoS units to meet all budgets.
With 100,000 units installed worldwide, J2's clients range from leading-brand retailers to hospitality businesses.
J2 says its products stand out for innovation, reliability and long product life, while delivering one of the lowest costs of EPoS ownership achievable today. It controls its own design and manufacture and always strives to improve user experience.
A pioneer of emerging technologies, J2 claims to have had the first EPoS to contain Solid State storage drives as standard and the first system to proactively monitor EPoS hardware and automate fault diagnosis and resolution before a till failure occurs.
J2 Retail Systems' CEO, Moray Boyd comments: "Collaboration with customers is central to our design
strategy. Our policy of component standardisation enables J2 to extend product life and keep reducing cost of ownership. Our newly- launched J2 625 is the culmination of cutting-edge POS innovation." J2 products are marketed through a community of resellers and solutions partners.
KANTAR RETAIL
www.kantarretail.com / www.kantarretailiq.eu
Contact: +44 (0)207 031 0272
Kantar Retail is a worldwide shopper and retail insights and consulting business and is part of the Kantar group of WPP.
The company works with a number of leading branded manufacturers and retailers to help them transform the purchase behaviour of consumers, shoppers and retailers through the use of retail insights, consulting, analytics and organizational development services.
Kantar Retail tracks and forecasts over 1000 retailers globally, has purchase data on over 200m shoppers and among its market-leading reports are the annual PoweRanking survey (USA and China), and Industry Shopper Study Across Retailers.
Kantar Retail works with over 400 clients and has 20 offices in 15 markets around the globe. It says its analysts better understand retailers and shoppers than anybody, while its consultants have line- management experience in leading global companies.
MOREFROM.ME
www.morefrom.biz
MOREFROM.ME is a simple way for IT retailers and resellers to start selling online with minimal risk.
It's also completely free; no set up or monthly fees and no payment gateway or web hosting fees.
Users get a full feature ecommerce website pre- populated with 140,000 IT products from 21 UK distributors and all maintained for them.
Customer order processing, supplier ordering, delivery, tracking and returns are taken care of. Clients can customise stores and a commission is paid on all sales – so there's a guaranteed margin.
The MoreFrom.me solution is aimed at dealers who want to sell online but don't want to invest time and money trying to break into an already crowded market, dominated by big players. It can also work as part of a multichannel solution.
Independent IT business consultant Richard Tubb calls MoreFrom.Me: "A nice way to recommend products to clients, receive some income, yet mitigate the overheads and risk".
The MoreFrom.Me business solution is provided by online selling veterans MoreComputers.com, which has consistently won online retailer and customer service awards.
NETWORK GROUP
www.nbg.co.uk
Contact: info@nbg.co.uk
Network Group is an IT buying organisation. It's owned and run by its members, and all profits are given back to the team, either directly or through the funding of group projects.
The group is led by an executive which is drawn from the membership. The executive carries out the day to day running of the group, but every member has an equal say and is involved in any strategic decision making.
Companies are vetted before they are allowed to become members. This ensures that each member adds to the strength of the group and that their business activities do not conflict with any existing members.
Its approved and preferred vendors and distributors attend regular meetings to present new products and services and to explore new opportunities. Members commit to focus their spend through these preferred channels. This helps to build strong relationships with its partners.
Regular marketing activities from Network Group include but are not limited to a quarterly business and retail publication, Network News magazine; a powerful email marketing tool; and web marketing, events and exclusive point of sale material to assist members in promoting preferred brands.
ORDERWORK
www.orderwork.co.uk
OrderWork is a trusted, channel-only managed services provider which completes support and installation services on behalf of its reseller clients. Its IT professionals represent reseller brands on site, and complete large national support, deployment projects, and installations with measurable results.
IT resellers and solution providers are under pressure to make their customer's IT infrastructure more adaptable and secure, which drives resellers to look at external technical experts to replace or supplement their existing capabilities.
OrderWork engineers have expertise across a broad set of technologies, and its service management technology proactively manages all technical support calls, so that you are always up to date on what is happening onsite with your end user tickets.
Benefits of outsourcing with OrderWork: White labelled to represent your brand; Covers mainland UK, NI and Scotland; 600 IT professionals (Level 1 – 6); Complementary technical skills; Four-hour response on bids.
OrderWork also supports several national retailers. Its engineers deliver a white labelled, in-home B2C service including desktop and router installs, home theatre set-up, and Freesat/aerial installations.
SYNAXON UK
www.synaxon.co.uk
Synaxon is a dealer group for independent retailers, resellers, VARs, MSPs and OP dealers. It has exclusive member terms with over 20 UK distributors and exclusive offers from more than 20 leading vendors.
Synaxon UK also has partnerships that offer cost savings and efficiency services to their membership – including Parcelforce, L&Z (DD), LPI, Autotask, etc.
By using the EGIS channel e- procurement platform, members can look up current pricing and stock availability from all distributor suppliers, automatically pull through their unique account price file and place their orders.
Members can also use Synaxon's iTrends marketing services to send regular e-shots and personalised direct mailers to their own customers. Or, use the Clic2IT e-commerce solution to become an online trader.
Member companies have the support of a dedicated internal account manager as well as regular visits from Synaxon's external BDM team.
Another benefit is the free to attend two-day channel conference that Synaxon organises annually.
"Being a Synaxon partner meant our buying-price was a lot lower and you get a rebate just for using EGIS," says Anthony Lay, AML Midlands.
THE [TECH] CROWD
www.thetechcrowd.co.uk
THE [TECH] CROWD has been helping technology vendors, distributors and resellers to grow UK revenues since 2009.
Although many people industry may not have heard of the name The [Tech] Crowd, thousands of channel businesses in the UK industry will have been affected by its work. For instance, it has been instrumental in the hugely successful TP-Link market growth since 2010.
The [Tech] Crowd immerses itself in its clients' organisations, representing clients as if a member of the in-house team.
Providing a truly strategic end-to-end business development service that ensures significant ROI is central to the company's ethos, as Jamie Plumridge, managing director, explains: "Ever since our inception in 2009, our passion and focus has been to provide a service that ingrains itself within our clients' UK sales strategy. Our services span the complete new business acquisition cycle. We believe that any successful sales strategy should encompass the creation of both supply and demand throughout the channel.
"We have a new iniative called 'Channel Dragons' that will connect new and exciting tech vendors with the UK's most influential channel businesses. Watch this space!"
TRANSMENTUM
www.transmentum.co.uk
Transmentum is a specialist business working with growing IT businesses.
With proven expertise working with companies as they change business model, Transmentum works hard to help their clients to sustain momentum, profitability and growth during transitional periods.
Fast growing businesses and businesses recently merged or acquired face a number of critical business issues whilst embracing change – especially when they are transitioning from one business model to another.
Transmentum is an innovative professional services business developed to meet this need in the IT sector.
With a track record of helping IT businesses to grow business revenues, profits, skills, and people, Transmentum adds value to businesses in the channel who are building a recurring revenue model – including those who aspire to move into the cloud or develop their own managed service propositions.
Businesses that have already made changes successfully, but are looking for faster, more sustained growth are among those who could benefit from working with Transmentum.
TWENTY5EIGHT SOLUTIONS
danny.c@25-8.co.uk
TWENTY5EIGHT Solutions provides field marketing solutions to the technology, mobile and entertainment sectors, working with brands that demand extraordinary service delivery.
The company's portfolio allows brands to tap into industry expertise in dedicated or tactical team solutions, retail staff training, compliance monitoring and correction and consumer experiential projects with emphasis on client business objectives delivery. There is a strong belief and passion for working with people in the field and in the principles of staff engagement which, it is felt, provides an invaluable experience for all stakeholders.
Twenty5Eight has a 'working together' ethos, and says its staff reflect passion, commitment, energy, knowledge, experience and relationship building.
It also boasts a 3,400 sq. ft. warehouse logistics operation; this allows it to manage clients' projects from inception to delivering in- depth reporting solutions and every step in-between.
Sales director Danny Coe says: "We are extremely passionate on working with our partners to deliver not only a fantastic service offering but also a high level of return on investment."
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Molly Moon et le Livre magique de l'hypnose est le premier tome de la série littéraire centrée sur le personnage de Molly Moon créé par Georgia Byng.

Résumé du livre

Dans le premier livre, Molly, jeune orpheline de 11 ans, apprend à hypnotiser des personnes grâce au livre de l'Hypnose du Dr Logan, trouvé un après-midi pluvieux où elle avait abandonné le cross de son école et était partie se réfugier à la bibliothèque de sa commune, Briesville. Là, dans le rayon Z, elle s'était endormie. À son réveil, elle avait trouvé le livre et l'avait emmenée à l'orphelinat où elle se fait porter pâle à son retour. A l'infirmerie, elle avait lu et appris toutes les leçons du Dr Logan sauf celles des chapitres 7 et 8, qui avaient été arrachées.

En utilisant ses nouveaux pouvoirs, elle quitte l'orphelinat en compagnie de Pétula, (la chienne de Miss Adderstone) après avoir hypnotisé Hazel, sa pire ennemie, toute sa bande, la directrice et Edna. Elle s'envole pour New York grâce à l'argent qu'elle a gagné en hypnotisant le public et le jury du concours des jeunes espoirs de Briesville. Elle part pour faire fortune mais aussi pour essayer de retrouver son meilleur ami Rocky Scarlet qui avait été adopté juste avant son départ.

Arrivée sur place, son compte en banque s'épuisant rapidement, elle hypnotise deux imprésarios et vole le rôle de Davina Nuttel dans la comédie musicale "Stars sur Mars" . Elle connait le succès en hypnotisant son public et mène une vie de rêve, jusqu'à l'enlèvement de Pétula par l'ignoble Simon Nockman, escroc de bas étage rêvant de cambrioler la Shoring, une banque de New York spécialisée dans les bijoux.

S'ensuit un horrible chantage où Simon Nockman oblige Molly à cambrioler la banque de ses rêves.
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Ils rentrent ensuite à Hardwick House.

Mais en arrivant à leur ancien orphelinat, le groupe découvre une bâtisse délabrée, qui semble complètement déserte à première vue.
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We will give priority to manufacturing industries: Finance Minister
Published On: November 13, 2021 01:10 PM NPT By: Republica | @RepublicaNepal
KATHMANDU, Nov 13: Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has said that the manufacturing industry is a priority of the government. At an interaction organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pokhara on Friday, he said that his goal is to build a productive economy in the country.
Expressing commitment to provide all the facilities required by the government to the manufacturing industry, he said, "If the industries want customs exemption or electricity or tax exemption, it will be given immediately."
Minister Sharma claimed that the government was working towards creating an environment where electricity generated would be consumed in the country without any waste. Admitting that only 4.7 percent capital expenditure has been a matter of sorrow so far, he said that they are preparing to increase the expenditure by amending the Public Procurement Act.
Stating that a committee has been formed under the coordination of the Minister to amend the Public Procurement Act, Minister Sharma said that discussions were held with the executive directors of 27 commercial banks on Friday to solve the liquidity problem in the market.
Similarly, Central member of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Baburam Giri said that the government should take a tougher decision to break the monopoly imposed by the bank for profit.
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Likewise, President of the Pokhara Tourism Council Gopi Bahadur Bhattarai said that the entrepreneurs affected by the pandemic were forced to pay 12 percent interest and demanded a quick solution to the liquidity problem.
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Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly's interview on ABC, News Breakfast on 8 January 2021
Read the transcript of Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly's interview on ABC, News Breakfast on 8 January 2021 about coronavirus (COVID-19)
ISKHANDAR RAZAK:
Now, for more on the announcement yesterday that Australia's vaccine rollout is likely to begin in the middle of next month, even though we have no COVID-19 vaccines approved in Australia as yet. The Government set an initial target to have four million Australians vaccinated by the end of March. The Commonwealth Chief Health Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, joins us now from Parliament House in Canberra. Good morning to you.
This is an accelerated timeline than what we were told initially, that's great news. But we're still hearing from epidemiologists that it should be even faster. Why not the Pfizer vaccine, if particular? Why not even sooner deploy that in Australia?
PAUL KELLY:
So, we're in a very enviable position here in Australia. There's very few countries in the world that can afford to wait until full approval is given. At the moment, there is no full approval in the UK, the US, and other parts of the world for this vaccine. What's been given is emergency utilisation authority. That might just sound like a bunch of words, but it's actually really important. The full approval looks at everything - looks at the effectiveness of the vaccine; it looks at the safety profile of the vaccine' it looks at the quality of the manufacturing; and, that's what Australians should expect from any [audio skip] or vaccine that comes into Australia, and that's what we're doing in this case. Safety is our first priority and it then it has to have that tick before we go ahead.
I think 1.4 million doses in the first phrase. Just brief us on the timeline? Who gets it first and why?
So, we have been very clear from the beginning, based on the ATAGI advice - that's our key immunisation advisory group - it's been operating for many, many years in Australia and it's stood us in good stead. They advise that the priorities should be based on two key principles - the first one those at most risk of exposure to the virus, and secondly, those at most risk of severe disease. So, let's think about those type of people. At the moment the people that are at highest risk to the exposure are those that are working on our borders. We have a raging pandemic in the rest of the world, anyone that's coming across our borders could have the virus. And so we'll be putting quarantine workers, border [audio skip], et cetera, people at the airports in our priority group at the start. Then there's healthcare workers –
[Interrupts] Does that include cleaners and drivers as well? Cleaners and drivers in the hotel security?
Well, yeah. So, we've seen that they're the ones that, unfortunately, have had that leakage of- out from hotel quarantine in Sydney last month and then in Brisbane as of yesterday. So yes, absolutely. Those people that are closest, closest to people that may have the virus are in our priority group. But so are our front-line healthcare workers, aged care workers, disability workers.
Then, who's at most risk of getting severe disease? That's our aged care people, our elderly people in Australia, particularly those in residential aged care. Some disabled people, others with chronic disease, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders - these are the ones that we want to get in that first, first couple of phases. So, we will be rolling out as quickly as we can, as soon as we have the tick and as soon as the supplies arrive here in Australia a couple of weeks after that.
You mention the fact these are our most important areas to clamp off. It is a vulnerable situation, hotel quarantine. Drivers and cleaners have been the areas where there've been a leak. What kinds of masks and PPE are required for cleaners and drivers in hotel quarantine to stop this leak from happening?
So, we have very clear protocols. We- you know, some time ago Jane Halton did a review right across Australia, except in Victoria at that time, of the hotel quarantine - there was no hotel quarantine at the time in Victoria when she was doing that review. But Victoria has had its own special commission looking at that, the Coates(*) review. So, all those things, and the experiences over the many months we've been doing hotel quarantine, shows us what needs to be done. But we do have to remember that all of these are complicated systems, being [audio skip] and operated by people and there is always that chance for human error, there's always -
[Interrupts] Sorry, Professor. Just on the PPE, is there a requirement, a mandate, that say all cleaners have to have N95 masks, the most secure kind of mask there is? Is there a mandate or requirement for cleaners and drivers, those vulnerable people we're talking about, across the entire nation?
Look, masks are important - they're not the only part of what needs to be done to keep people safe in these circumstances. But there are a range of PPE requirements and guidelines about that. It is all published and so it's the states and territories who are responsible for that.
[Talks over] But are they state by state? Or is it a national - is it a national situation where everyone has to abide by the same level of protocols?
We have national guidance for that and- but the states and territories are the ones that are running the, the hotel quarantine system, and it's up to them to make sure that that's been worked through. This will be one of the things we'll discuss at National Cabinet today.
No. I'm sure it is. Thank you very much for clarifying that. Back to the vaccine, this is the Pfizer vaccine, it's the more difficult to store and distribute. How taxing, how difficult will this entire process be?
Yes. It does have its challenges and we've been working very hard over the last several months to look at those challenges and to make sure we have plans in place - very detailed plans about the logistics of that particular vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine, we have a contract with them to supply that vaccine right throughout 2021, starting as early as a couple of weeks after the regulatory tick is given. And they, as part of that contract, they have taken on the responsibility of safe transport from the place of manufacture to the place of vaccination - so that's them, they've their own deal for that.
We've got, now, two logistic suppliers to assist us with that rollout. And all of these logistic plans, some of them in incredible detail, and are dealing with all of those things. So, we haven't been sitting on our hands; all the way through we've been making those plans, very detailed; talking to the states and territories; looking at ways that we can make this work as quickly as possible and as efficiently as possible.
And what is going to come out of National Cabinet today?
Well, there is a lot of advice going into National Cabinet today. What comes out of National Cabinet, of course, is for them to decide. But we'll be talking about how to keep Australians safe from this very large global pandemic that's happening in other parts of the world. So, there'll be issues discussed there about safe travel for people coming to Australia, and indeed, around Australia.
Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, thank you so much for that and all the information. Great news!
Thank you and it certainly is.
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This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound's aesthetic theory. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding "Treatise on Meter" provides an illuminating essay for anyone aspiring to read and write poetry. The ABC of Reading emphasizes Pound This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound's aesthetic theory. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding "Treatise on Meter" provides an illuminating essay for anyone aspiring to read and write poetry. The ABC of Reading emphasizes Pound's ability to discover neglected and unknown genius, distinguish originals from imitations, and open new avenues in literature for our time. ...more
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May 21, 2013 Mariel rated it liked it
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
I don't know what the hell I'm doing. This was something I started to read in the bookstore because I happened to pick it up. I had been looking for something else. Mostly I didn't want to go home that day and I had read quite a bit of it already. So after reading most of it in the store (jumping around here and there, pulling on my ear reflexively) I may as well have bought it. So I bought it. Cha-ching.
There were times aplenty when he pounded my ears with ringings of "He can't be serious? But I LIKE Wordsworth, or I think I liked him a long time ago. I don't remember now." Edith Sitwell certainly loved him. I was reading her ecstatic descriptions of his merits earlier this day. Everyone is a critic as the saying goes. I'll have to go back and make up my own mind (again). You know what they say about opinions and assholes and what everyone has. I'm sure that I don't like Henry James half as much as Ezra Pound did.
There was a forty-five paged original treatise laying out Mr. Pounds what have yous before this new and expounded on edition came out to stick it to the naysayers. Every now and again he will say why such and such person is wrong. I had the feeling of in-jokes or just-for-this-person notes sometimes. It's mildly amusing or tedious if he stopped writing about something more interesting to say what that person had been wrong. He wasn't writing about novels so it was a silly complaint that his smaller book wasn't about novels. What the reviews say of this being very much a "personality" work is true. The gesticulations leap off the page. He probably would have had a ball posting and commenting on goodreads.
I'm pussyfooting around. I don't know if I know how to read poetry. I never read it aloud. I'll hum it in my head. It isn't unlike the music I hear in my head that I've never heard anywhere else. I will read lines and reread lines and go back. If how it is supposed to sound is how it sounds to me I don't know. I don't want to try so hard. By Pounds standards one should publish poetry before they can critique it. I consider it more attempting to place myself with something else to write my "reviews". Catch Road Runner and Wile Coyote before they run away with what I want. I have never taken long over a sentence. If it doesn't flow naturally I don't want to do it at all. It's the heart's version of the writer's block if I am too worried about how I will sound. This is something I sometimes call my "fly by the seat of my pants" writing or "plane-jumping". It is the freedom feeling I have to have. Later I'll feel miserable over my lack of clarity. If I'm not "reading" correctly I want to at least be able to sense or intuit correctly, or at least honestly. I really want to read with the freedom feeling, like thinking without words. What I want has nothing to do with this book, though. What I do probably doesn't look like anything anyone else does. I don't know what my inside poetry music sounds outside.
According to Pound one should be able to speak and write in multiple languages. Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Chinese (I don't think he liked the Germans. One of the times that made me shake my head was when he pronounced there weren't any good German poets). This is the main criteria of ABC of reading. If you are unwilling to stick the babel fish in your ear then you don't really want to read poetry. The idea is that there aren't any languages capable of expressing all you could want or need to express. There are no languages that encompass everything. I don't know if I want to be able to express everything. Maybe some things are not meant to be said. Maybe you could get something beautiful out of what you can bend the English language to do (English readers only he writes to grudgingly). The what is not said sensed with what is said could be an expression closer to what you truly want. If you are putting together words that no one has ever used together before to express something real that's beautiful to me too. I wish that I could read the Italian poetry. I wish that I could read everything (well, not everything. Some stuff looks wholly without appeal). I don't share his loftier position for the innovators either. I guess coming to so many great books hundreds of years after they have been written and copied speaks more for the truth of why it resonates than how it is said. I guess as far as writing poetry how it is said is a lot. But if you watch someone dance do you want to dance like them and feel their consciousness of form or do you want to feel as free as they seem to feel? What is fresh forever must be something about what is said and not just how it is said. At least that's how it seems to me.
Pound does question the reader if they feel coming out of them what they have just read if they write after reading. In their voice, or whose voice? An exercise suggested to students is to parody a poem they find particularly ridiculous. Do they transcend its foolishness or poke at the superficial weakness in their eyes? I liked this idea to see if the poem survives this persistent treatment. The other exercise I liked was to describe a tree and have that tree be recognizable from any other tree. Flaubert was said to instruct de Maupassant to describe a clerk on the street and he would be distinguishable to Flaubert from any other clerk.
It was interesting (although suspect) what he writes about Chinese pictograms. I liked that he had the "Seafarer" poem translated into Chinese and the pictogram for its story have not been used in any other poem that he knows of. What I liked was having something identifiable in a word. If you were going to describe red without using the color red you could demonstrate with the pictogram a flamingo and other similarly hued objects. That they can suggest something related is intriguing to me and I think again that it is enough to not have to say "red" to mean it. You can feel close and similar and not have to hold the set definition in your hands.
I also didn't know about the changing in inflections (he called them tags. This is all new to me) in languages and how that related to newer translations of the much older poems. Which poets learned their tags and meter from Homer although they didn't write in Greek. I probably won't think about any of this again.
He is kind of infuriating, really. His advice is contradicted on snobby grounds pretty often. For example, poets suffer from not learning musical theory. But they shouldn't bother studying in a conservatory because no one knows how to teach music properly anyway. If I took this seriously I suppose I would have become depressed after some of this stuff. I'm pretty hopeless with language. I have to work every day and it has taken me my whole life to read what I have already read. I'm far from well read and I read every day. But I don't need anyone else to tell me what to read. The how I read has changed so often (Pound had ideas about changing literary taste. I could easily waste precious daydreaming time tracing back my own changing taste. Would I still like this? It gets to where you don't "count" what you've read ten, fifteen years ago and then feel even less well read than you had before). If I'm not doing the books justice I think (at least) I'm coming to them with a fair shake. So none of that stuff about almost only the ancient stuff is any good (Pound was dubious of the old idea that ALL Greeks were better than ALL Latins and still he comes out with similarly fishy things).
Beyond which we will never recover the art of writing to be sung until we begin to pay some attention to the sequence, or scale, of vowels in the line, and of the vowels terminating the group of lines in a series.
I wish I was musical. I wonder how he compared the dramatists to the ancient poets as having a medium that existed in movement. If you charge with meaning through music (inside or outside) that seems to me to also charge words with meaning.
The other day I came across this from Harold Pinter:
"Language, under these conditions, is a highly ambiguous commerce. So often, below the words spoken, is the thing known and unspoken. My characters tell me so much and no more, with reference to their experience, their aspirations, their motives, their history. Between my lack of biographical data about them and the ambiguity of what they say there lies a territory which is not only worthy of exploration but which it is compulsory to explore. You and I, the characters which grow on a page, most of the time we're inexpressive, giving little away, unreliable, elusive, evasive, obstructive, unwilling. But it's out of these attributes that a language arises. A language, I repeat, where, underneath what is said, another thing is being said."
There are so many ways to say that thing underneath and learning how to find that is important to me. I don't know of anywhere that tells you how to do that. I guess reading and taking it seriously what you read. I guess. ...more
Dec 19, 2007 Melissa rated it it was amazing
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Classic. I kind of love how it feels like he's yelling at you, with his fondness for caps and italics. Much wisdom and strong opinion to be found here; makes me want to work hard, read Homer in ancient Greek, etc.
"Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
There are three kinds of melopoeia, that is, verse made to sing; to chant or intone; and to speak.
The older one gets the more one believes in the first."
"And it is my firm conviction that a Classic. I kind of love how it feels like he's yelling at you, with his fondness for caps and italics. Much wisdom and strong opinion to be found here; makes me want to work hard, read Homer in ancient Greek, etc.
"And it is my firm conviction that a man can learn more about poetry by really knowing and examining a few of the best poems than by meandering about among a great many." ...more
Feb 21, 2016 Jonfaith rated it liked it
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The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention — and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.
Predictably didactic and teeming with bombast, this is a sound primer to poetry and an illuminating insight into the turns and shifts Pound was making as the 1930s released a greasy slip into global catastrophe. Intriguing as Cra The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention — and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.
Predictably didactic and teeming with bombast, this is a sound primer to poetry and an illuminating insight into the turns and shifts Pound was making as the 1930s released a greasy slip into global catastrophe. Intriguing as Cranky Ezra proclaims Chaucer the father of European Verse and then picks examples of the subsequent tradition, many of which have since lapsed into obscurity. Prime those shovels, ye exhumers! ...more
Mar 21, 2007 eric j rated it really liked it
At the outset, it's important to note that Mr. Pound offers ABC of Reading as a "text-book that can also be read 'for pleasure as well as profit' by those no longer in school; by those who have not been to school; or by those who in their college days suffered those things which most of my own generation suffered".
We're all duly welcomed to Mr. Pound's class. However, once the door is shut, he throws gut-bucket criticism at snobbishness, poor preparation, and laziness -- especially targeting the At the outset, it's important to note that Mr. Pound offers ABC of Reading as a "text-book that can also be read 'for pleasure as well as profit' by those no longer in school; by those who have not been to school; or by those who in their college days suffered those things which most of my own generation suffered".
We're all duly welcomed to Mr. Pound's class. However, once the door is shut, he throws gut-bucket criticism at snobbishness, poor preparation, and laziness -- especially targeting the teacher who, by any of these vices, would lead any student away from the very personal road of discovery, i.e. away from critical thought that is no respecter of persons, even great persons. Too many jabs to count, but here are a couple of his friendliest (and well-placed) shots:
1. "Anybody who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books for ever."
2. "It would take a bile specialist to discover why the Oxford Book of Verses includes the first five strophes (of John Donne's "The Ecstasy") and then truncates the poem with no indication that anything has been omitted."
On this "no slackers" context he elaborates a simple core message: Look at a work for what it is and for what the author intends; then, learn by comparing it to worthy counterexamples. One example of Pound's guidance on this point: "The way to study Shakespeare is to study it side by side with something different and of equal extent. The proper antagonist is Dante who is of equal size and DIFFERENT. ...You can't judge any chemical's reaction merely by putting it with more of itself."
Pound also dares you to either study languages or remain ignorant to the weight of timeless literature. "There is no use...in my publisher asking me to make English literature as prominent as possible. I mean, not if I am to play fair with the student. You cannot learn to write by reading English." (Also, Read p. 35, par. 2 for the MOST telling and eloquent statement on this fact.)
In sum, Mr. Pound is far from dogmatic as many bill him. No man who issues a fair challenge can be considered so. He told you as much: "My lists (of poems) are a starting-point and a challenge. This challenge has been open for a number of years and no one has yet taken it up. There have been general complaints, but no one has offered a rival list." Calling him dogmatic thus becomes a wimp-out on an invitation to hard study and thought.
That said, it should not be lost on anyone that Pound's invitation is nearly the equivalent of the boxing critic being challenged to a round by Muhammad Ali in his prime.
Nevertheless, as students of literature and life, we should be willing to run Pound's gauntlet long before offering up any dogma on Pound himself or the work in question. Our only recourse, though, is it's own reward since we are free to fearlessly question even Mr. Pound along the way.
As a bonus, I believe any reader will gain even more by taking up the opening invitation to read the book "for pleasure as well as for profit". Do this times over and with a lens much wider than the literary. ABC of Reading then reads as a solid treatise on living and learning.
A Stillmatic move by pound... "You want beef? I hope you got yourself a gun." Pound and Nas agree. Come ready.
Jul 07, 2008 Eric rated it liked it
Shelves: criticism
Contains an advocacy of Chaucer more vehement than I ever heard from the professional Middle Englishers at college. 'You would not be far out if you chose to consider Chaucer as the father of litterae humaniores for Europe.' Huh. The appreciations of Gavin Douglas, Golding and Fielding also caught my mind.
After that, nothing much surprising: Shakespeare isn't a diety...Milton was a blockhead...it is VERY important to know Dante and Cavalcanti...English poetry after Browning is a limp, hazy deca Contains an advocacy of Chaucer more vehement than I ever heard from the professional Middle Englishers at college. 'You would not be far out if you chose to consider Chaucer as the father of litterae humaniores for Europe.' Huh. The appreciations of Gavin Douglas, Golding and Fielding also caught my mind.
After that, nothing much surprising: Shakespeare isn't a diety...Milton was a blockhead...it is VERY important to know Dante and Cavalcanti...English poetry after Browning is a limp, hazy decadence...at some point in history there was an ideal period of poetic homeostasis (Provencal, 1250-to the Renaissance; Tom says it was 17th century England ante Milton) that we--paradoxically called 'modernists' though our passion is an excavating nostalgia, an erudite primitivism--mean to mine for invigorating lessons. ...more
Sep 07, 2013 Frankie rated it really liked it
Shelves: lit-criticism
Despite the pretentious name, this is not really a reading guide per se, more of a poetry appreciation guide. Especially for the first few chapters, where he preaches what he considers to be the canon of poetry classics. The final chapters feature a family tree of poetic samples that illustrate EP's points about writing poetry. There are some dull, pedantic areas of the text, but overall it's a very enlightening read.
Assuming that most readers will be multilingual is a stretch, yet Pound spends Despite the pretentious name, this is not really a reading guide per se, more of a poetry appreciation guide. Especially for the first few chapters, where he preaches what he considers to be the canon of poetry classics. The final chapters feature a family tree of poetic samples that illustrate EP's points about writing poetry. There are some dull, pedantic areas of the text, but overall it's a very enlightening read.
Assuming that most readers will be multilingual is a stretch, yet Pound spends time early on describing the limitations of English-only study. There are some French and Latin phrases that need looking up. For the most part, however, he drops this point and segues to his primary thesis. EP's argument is basically this: Poetry evolved from music, and must remain true to it. "Poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music…" (p14) Later on page 156, he compares earlier times, when aristocratic men were taught both music and poetry together, to modern times when music is treated as a discipline and poetry as a pastime.
Another strong point EP makes is that literary criticism is usually flawed, because it attacks the author's perceived intentions instead of the author's work itself. By this, the critic assumes he is more intelligent than the author and able to perceive the exact reason and motivation for the work. This is both degrading and impossible. The critic should judge the work solely on its own merit. "…You can readily see that a good deal of BAD criticism has been written by men who assume that an author is trying to do what he is NOT trying to do. Incredible as it now seems, the bad critics of Keats' time found his writing 'obscure', which meant that they couldn't understand WHY Keats wrote." (p64)
Pound's critical concept arises again in the Chapter 8 section titled Perception. "The concept of [artistic] genius as akin to madness has been carefully fostered by the inferiority complex of the public…. A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act and merely survives…. Before deciding whether a man is a fool or a good artist, it would be well to ask… 'does he see something we don't?'" (p82-83)
A good summation that embraces the title can be found on page 100: "Men do not understand BOOKS until they have had a certain amount of life….until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. The prejudice against books has grown from observing the stupidity of men who have merely read books." ...more
Dec 25, 2008 Matt rated it liked it
Shelves: lit-crit, underrated-lost-classics
Absolute punk rock book of insights, raves, rants, condemnations, fury and exquisite heft. I really enjoyed his puckish, piquant, I'm-Ezra-Pound-and-you're-not kinda vibe.
"Literature is news that STAYS news"....absolutely gaddamn right.
What I always find is the catch with books like this is that inevitably the writer starts to hymn works which the reader hasn't read or doesn't know thoroughly enough to be able to benefit from the insight. Pound falls victim to that here, albeit willingly. I had Absolute punk rock book of insights, raves, rants, condemnations, fury and exquisite heft. I really enjoyed his puckish, piquant, I'm-Ezra-Pound-and-you're-not kinda vibe.
What I always find is the catch with books like this is that inevitably the writer starts to hymn works which the reader hasn't read or doesn't know thoroughly enough to be able to benefit from the insight. Pound falls victim to that here, albeit willingly. I had it at four stars at first, but I decided that him and his obscene erudition and his frilly named poetical terms have to lose a star, for obscurity and self-importance if nothing else.
But I love the manic energy that one can find all over the place, mostly in the beginning. And I respect his knowledge, uncompromising stances, verve, and sheer chutzpah. ...more
Jan 21, 2009 James Henderson rated it really liked it
Shelves: about-books, philosophy, aphorisms, underrated, books-and-reading
Mount Parnassus in Greek mythology is a mountain in central Greece where the Muses lived; it is known as the mythological home of music and poetry. The ABC of Reading is Ezra Pound's iconoclastic view of stages on the way to Parnassus -- to knowing the nature and meaning of literature. Pound was there at the beginning of the Modernist movement in literature. In fact one could argue that he invented it and he both discovered and encouraged fellow writers, T. S. Eliot is a prominent example, to pe Mount Parnassus in Greek mythology is a mountain in central Greece where the Muses lived; it is known as the mythological home of music and poetry. The ABC of Reading is Ezra Pound's iconoclastic view of stages on the way to Parnassus -- to knowing the nature and meaning of literature. Pound was there at the beginning of the Modernist movement in literature. In fact one could argue that he invented it and he both discovered and encouraged fellow writers, T. S. Eliot is a prominent example, to persevere and "make it new". This spirit permeates this book and I believe it has not diminished over the decades. My beat up copy was obtained in Madison, Wisconsin at a used book store near the University. What an appropriate setting, for this book reads like an extension of the University expanding my education in time and through imagination. There are more ideas packed into just over two hundred pages in this little book than in many much larger tomes. The ideas are at one striking and sublime. Plus there are bon mots like this-- "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."(p 36) --in every chapter.
This classic retains "a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness" that makes it worth reading today; both for the challenge and for the insights into the nature of poetry and literature. ...more
Jul 28, 2007 Jenni rated it it was amazing
Shelves: critical-essays
I give this a 5 because I think this is what Pound was meant to do: teach and be a critic. I'm not crazy about his poems at all. There are some ridiculous demands in this book (like learning several foreign languages) but overall there's a ton of excellent insights. I especially like what he wrote about Chinese ideograms. As with most "craft" books, this one is meant to teach a person how to read, not write. I give this a 5 because I think this is what Pound was meant to do: teach and be a critic. I'm not crazy about his poems at all. There are some ridiculous demands in this book (like learning several foreign languages) but overall there's a ton of excellent insights. I especially like what he wrote about Chinese ideograms. As with most "craft" books, this one is meant to teach a person how to read, not write. ...more
Nov 04, 2007 Tosh rated it it was amazing
You are kicked out of every institution, but you still can get a good introduction to literature via Ezra Pound and this book. I read it as a teenager at the right time and right place. Maybe it will happen to you... as well.
Aug 25, 2008 Kitty rated it really liked it
Pound loves to quote himself -- like Cocteau, "Etonnez-moi" -- surprise me -- is the order of the day to ensure that words are charged with meaning with logo-melo-phano-poetic roots growing deep underneath. (42: phanopoeia: throwing a visual image on the mind; Melopoeia: melodic invention; Charge words with sound (37). relationships, etymologies, etc.) The way to learn the music of verse is to listen to it. (56)
Language and thought -- spoken or written, is about articulating and communicating - Pound loves to quote himself -- like Cocteau, "Etonnez-moi" -- surprise me -- is the order of the day to ensure that words are charged with meaning with logo-melo-phano-poetic roots growing deep underneath. (42: phanopoeia: throwing a visual image on the mind; Melopoeia: melodic invention; Charge words with sound (37). relationships, etymologies, etc.) The way to learn the music of verse is to listen to it. (56)
Language and thought -- spoken or written, is about articulating and communicating --
"Literature is news that STAYS news." (p. 29) As I explore the "sound" of poetry,
his reflections on the emotional correlations of sound and rhythm of speech are useful.
"Incompetence will show in the use of too many words". (63) (Think: The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough.: ) In our 21st century a good poem includes "clarity in making the stakes clear". Pound set the stage, expounding on one definition of beauty: aptness to purpose. (p. 64). His arrogance p. 81: Can you be interested in the writings of men whose general perceptions are below the average?"
Composition as "singing matter" (152): "It has been perceived that French verse went soggy and leaden, and that it tumefied when some literary lump was too dull to finger the lute; too inarticulate in the basic sense of the word. It is not a man's fingers that stop him playing an instrument, but his mind, his inability to grasp mentally the sixty or the twelve or 600 bits of a whole and to perceive their relations. The true imagination, whether visual or acoustic, holds a piece of music as a watchmaker would mentally grasp a watch..." (152) importance of DETAILS.. so each line FITS THE MUSIC. Lots of examples and the well known, short, treatise on prosody at end. ...more
Oct 07, 2008 Mr. rated it really liked it
Ezra pound's cryptic, and often arrogant pamphlet about the principles of successful poetry is an interesting insight into the quality of the artist as a learned reader of classical poetry in the lyric form (primarily). Pound does not value any critics who have not produced works of literature themselves, and he promotes individual taste above all else. Never the less, he establishes a basic canon of great lyric poetry, including (above all else) Shakespeare, Homer, Chaucer, and Dante. Pound doe Ezra pound's cryptic, and often arrogant pamphlet about the principles of successful poetry is an interesting insight into the quality of the artist as a learned reader of classical poetry in the lyric form (primarily). Pound does not value any critics who have not produced works of literature themselves, and he promotes individual taste above all else. Never the less, he establishes a basic canon of great lyric poetry, including (above all else) Shakespeare, Homer, Chaucer, and Dante. Pound does not believe you can understand the nature of poetry without being able to read Latin, Greek, French, and Italian, but of course this guidebook is coming from a true fanatic. It is debatable whether or not this book creates more problems than it solves in the domain of interpreting and reading poetry, but it is clearly the aesthetic of a brilliant writer, and it is an essential facet of the modernist perspective. ...more
May 24, 2011 Jennifer rated it it was ok
This little volume was meant as a guide to students and teachers for how to read literature, poems and novels, in order to, by extension, write literature. He puts in a few interesting exercises on how students should do peer critiques to weed out excess language. He also has compiled a meandering list of required reading for the serious reader. Mmm, I must not be a serious student of literature. Because I sure do enjoy contemporary dross now and again. I was thinking that reading this book migh This little volume was meant as a guide to students and teachers for how to read literature, poems and novels, in order to, by extension, write literature. He puts in a few interesting exercises on how students should do peer critiques to weed out excess language. He also has compiled a meandering list of required reading for the serious reader. Mmm, I must not be a serious student of literature. Because I sure do enjoy contemporary dross now and again. I was thinking that reading this book might be an interesting foundation for the rest of my reading in Malaysia. In any case, I think I will just enjoy what I want to enjoy. Enlightenment through language? Eh, probably not. Some nice relief from the heat. Sure! ...more
Dec 21, 2007 Nathalie rated it liked it · review of another edition
'A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax.
"It concerns the relation of expression to meaning. Abrupt and disordered syntax can be at times very honest, and an elaborately constructed sentence can be at times an elaborate camouflage.'
Ezra Pound in 'A B C of Reading 'A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax.
Ezra Pound in 'A B C of Reading ...more
Aug 24, 2018 Sebastian Radu rated it it was ok
Shelves: non-fiction, essays
I don't know what I expected going into this, but it wasn't too enjoyable a read so after a while I just fast forwarded through it. There are a few good quotes you might get out of it, and there is some decent advice in it, but if you've ever done even a basic creative writing workshop or ever expressed any interest in writing, a lot of this won't be new to you. There are also quite a few examples and exercises for the reader / potential writer, but to me most of the advice boiled down to:
1. Rea I don't know what I expected going into this, but it wasn't too enjoyable a read so after a while I just fast forwarded through it. There are a few good quotes you might get out of it, and there is some decent advice in it, but if you've ever done even a basic creative writing workshop or ever expressed any interest in writing, a lot of this won't be new to you. There are also quite a few examples and exercises for the reader / potential writer, but to me most of the advice boiled down to:
1. Read more.
2. Return to the masters often.
3. Study the techniques and the literary devices.
4. Explore foreign literature, in the original language if possible.
5. Don't waste time with mediocre writers.
6. Be efficient and precise in your writing.
7. Dissect what you read. Analyze it in depth.
8. Write a lot.
9. Read more. ...more
Mar 13, 2020 Slow Reader rated it really liked it
Polemical and exhilarating. A great overflowing fount of literary appreciation best used, first, as a resource, and second, as a stimulant.
Nov 30, 2009 Jenna rated it liked it
Shelves: how-to-books
Here follows a list of the quotable parts, for the benefit of someone who wants to get the gist of this book without reading it:
"Literature is language charged with meaning. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Language is the main means of human communication. If an animal's nervous system does not transmit sensations and stimuli, the anima Here follows a list of the quotable parts, for the benefit of someone who wants to get the gist of this book without reading it:
"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Language is the main means of human communication. If an animal's nervous system does not transmit sensations and stimuli, the animal atrophies. If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. Your legislator can't legislate for the public good, your commander can't command, your populace can't instruct its representatives, save by language."
"Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. There are three kinds of melopoeia: verse made to sing; to chant or intone; and to speak. The older one gets the more one believes in the first."
"Only a long-eared, furry-eared epoch would have thought of printing [lyrics:] apart from their tunes as has been done in our time."
"The sonnet is the DEVIL,...first because of its having all its lines the same length, which was itself a result of divorce from song..." For good measure, Pound goes on to quote a rather vehement W.S.Landor poem that denounces sonnetry in English: "Why should we/Who draw deep seines along the sea,/Cut them in pieces to beset/The shallows with a cabbage-net?"
"Gower was the perfect type of English secondary writer, condemned for all time by Henri Davray with his 'Ils cherchent des sentiments pour les accommoder a leur vocabulaire.' (They hunt for sentiments to fit into their vocabulary.)" ...more
Aug 18, 2008 Gabriel rated it really liked it
It is perhaps the ellipsis of things thought through and taken for granted that lends Pound's writings about writing their didactic tone. It also tends to leave me wanting more-- not necessarily in a good way, because I have come to realize that they are not being hidden in some other book (unless one counts The Cantos, where it all is, in some form or another), they simply haven't been written down. In some ways, this is self-denigration rather than simple belligerence: Pound would rather we go It is perhaps the ellipsis of things thought through and taken for granted that lends Pound's writings about writing their didactic tone. It also tends to leave me wanting more-- not necessarily in a good way, because I have come to realize that they are not being hidden in some other book (unless one counts The Cantos, where it all is, in some form or another), they simply haven't been written down. In some ways, this is self-denigration rather than simple belligerence: Pound would rather we go to the sources, do our own thinking, and then (of course) come to the same conclusion he has, than tell us flat out what it is that led him to his conclusion. But we read to watch the mind at work, and to be denied that time after time becomes bullying.
This is supposed to be an illumination or expansion of "How to Read," which was the highlight of the New Directions collection of Pound's essays for me, and it is, in some ways. But don't come expecting to be satisfied. I suppose all of Pound's essays work in the same way: pointing at and into the Cantos, providing the reader with reading lists that can act as a map of the Cantos, and giving the reader a taste of Pound's attitude and tone to whet the appetite. Consider it whetted. ...more
Aug 13, 2011 Donald rated it it was amazing
I moved halfway across the country (with ~2000 books!), so I'm a little behind on my reading. I jumped back into the fray with the greatest poetic mind of the last Century. Pity he was a fascist...
This is Ezra Pound's textbook/manifesto for reading poetry. He attempts to give the reader a foundation to work from, and it's really fantastic. His vitriol against Milton is amazing, and he introduced me to several poets I didn't know (and made me reconsider my feelings towards Donne).
The glories of H I moved halfway across the country (with ~2000 books!), so I'm a little behind on my reading. I jumped back into the fray with the greatest poetic mind of the last Century. Pity he was a fascist...
The glories of Homer, Chaucer, Villon, Aeschylus, &c. are sung, as they should be. EP actually puts Shakespeare beneath Chaucer, which is interesting. (For me, Shakespeare's sonnets remain the high-point of the English language... they are actually perfect and one of the few credible arguments for 'divine intervention'.)
I wish he'd written more about Rimbaud and also the Provencal poets. I wish I'd read this when I was 16.
So, I'm reminded not only to read poetry but to SING it and LISTEN to it. What a glorious suggestion! ...more
Feb 09, 2014 J. Alfred rated it liked it
The arrogance for which Shapiro (and many others) excoriate Pound is present from the dedication: "The book is not addressed to those who have arrived at full knowledge of the subjects without knowing the facts[.]" (There's no period in Pound's text.) Pound claims that this volume is meant as a textbook. I can't believe it was ever used in that way, or indeed was ever intended that way-- it's part of Pound's lifelong mind games with the rest of the civilized world.
The tone is sort of uniform th The arrogance for which Shapiro (and many others) excoriate Pound is present from the dedication: "The book is not addressed to those who have arrived at full knowledge of the subjects without knowing the facts[.]" (There's no period in Pound's text.) Pound claims that this volume is meant as a textbook. I can't believe it was ever used in that way, or indeed was ever intended that way-- it's part of Pound's lifelong mind games with the rest of the civilized world.
The tone is sort of uniform throughout: acerbic, mocking, earnest. Pound seems to take a positive delight in mixing up the established order of the literary world, but he's such a clear thinker that one hesitates as to whether or not one should be offended or become an immediate and round-eyed disciple. So, if you want an engaging, humbling, and occasionally funny text from one of the great characters of the last century, or if you're a fan of ARBITRARY capitalizations which produce DISCONCERTING EMPHASIS, I suggest you check it out. ...more
Apr 15, 2015 Hális Alves rated it liked it
Shelves: books
I won't compile all the interesting (or not) aspects that made the ABC of Reading a pertinent book. I'd rather say this, and only this: Pound is acid, truthful and well-versed in his several aphorisms, many of which made me close the book and dwell a bit further in what he had just said. He clearly knows his business and gives us fair bits of advice, the most powerful being his approximation of poetry to the music, in pretty much all of its elements. I personally believe that that is beautiful a I won't compile all the interesting (or not) aspects that made the ABC of Reading a pertinent book. I'd rather say this, and only this: Pound is acid, truthful and well-versed in his several aphorisms, many of which made me close the book and dwell a bit further in what he had just said. He clearly knows his business and gives us fair bits of advice, the most powerful being his approximation of poetry to the music, in pretty much all of its elements. I personally believe that that is beautiful and true, though this of course may be paired with more classical notions of poetry. Half of the book, however, seemed uninteresting to me due to its highly technical analysis of old poems, well accordingly to its primary educational purposes, which I did not share. Worth a selected reading, however, and the 3-star rating is but a personal technicality. ...more
Jul 03, 2020 Adrian Alvarez rated it it was amazing
Ezra Pound, you flawed and sassy bitch, I love you.
He's purposely obscure, obstinate, opinionated and not someone you can really ignore. Oh, I rolled my eyes plenty reading this but when you write one of the most significant poetic works of the 20th century I suppose you're afforded a strongly flavored personality. That isn't to say he could do no wrong - the man rooted for Mussolini - but he is an artist I have to reckon with, flaws and all.
The writing style of this book is flamboyant and effec Ezra Pound, you flawed and sassy bitch, I love you.
The writing style of this book is flamboyant and effective. I really heard Pound going off on these ideas, raising his voice to emphasize a point, savoring particular stanzas.
As for a general sum up of the contents here: writing is difficult, necessarily, and one must take responsibility for engaging in the history of one's field personally and directly.
So, egregious as his demands are, his influence over my reading list is unquestionable. ...more
May 12, 2012 Nick rated it really liked it
If Hitler was your Highschool English teacher, his class would be a bit like this book, which suprisingly, works amazingly well. My synopsis of some of the more distinguishing points:
'If you can't fluently speak English, German, French, Latin, Greek and Chinese you shouldn't even be considered literate,'
'Unless you've read every work by Virgil, Ovid, Homer, Chaucer, Shakesphere, etc. and have produced notable works of your own, you are not fit to even so much as critique a book,'
'I'd go gay for If Hitler was your Highschool English teacher, his class would be a bit like this book, which suprisingly, works amazingly well. My synopsis of some of the more distinguishing points:
'I'd go gay for Chaucer if he were still alive.'
It's quite interesting, check it out! ...more
May 17, 2011 Mike Lindgren rated it really liked it
Shelves: nonfiction
This classic work of literary criticism was very amusing to me, with its draconian pronouncements and caustic contempt for the sub-literate and sloppy. Pound has very strong likes and dislikes, and while his enthusiasms are often eccentric (Walter Savage Landor? Fitzgerald's translation of Rubaiyat?), the energy and certainty with which he trumpets them are refreshing. There's a critical worldview in there somewhere, albeit one based on aphorism and epigram rather than systematic analysis. This classic work of literary criticism was very amusing to me, with its draconian pronouncements and caustic contempt for the sub-literate and sloppy. Pound has very strong likes and dislikes, and while his enthusiasms are often eccentric (Walter Savage Landor? Fitzgerald's translation of Rubaiyat?), the energy and certainty with which he trumpets them are refreshing. There's a critical worldview in there somewhere, albeit one based on aphorism and epigram rather than systematic analysis. ...more
Apr 29, 2007 Finbar rated it it was amazing
Shelves: poetry, essential
I wish this book was taught to all high school students. Pound walks the reader through the critical process and teaches the fundamentals of accessing difficult texts. If only I had read this when I was younger--it would have saved me so much time.
Nov 27, 2008 José Gouveia rated it it was amazing
Awesome book! I'm not a big fan of Pound's very dense work of poetry, but these essays explain his philosophies on poetics on several levels and offer points to back up what he is saying from a cultural and language perspective. This book greatly improved my own sensibilities. Awesome book! I'm not a big fan of Pound's very dense work of poetry, but these essays explain his philosophies on poetics on several levels and offer points to back up what he is saying from a cultural and language perspective. This book greatly improved my own sensibilities. ...more
Sep 17, 2007 Meg rated it it was amazing
Shelves: thesis
he really is a shit in this one. but a smart shit.
Jun 09, 2019 Philipp rated it really liked it
Shelves: poetry, non-fiction
Pound wants you to be on fire for poetry as much as he is, if he were a professor at university he'd be the one who would have extremely interesting and tiring lectures, followed by ridiculously hard exams ('Yes, we did not have that directly in the lectures, but I expect you to work on this in your free time! It would have easily appeared to you if you would have an iota of interest in your chosen field!'), and if you would fail he would be personally offended. His style is rambling and aggress Pound wants you to be on fire for poetry as much as he is, if he were a professor at university he'd be the one who would have extremely interesting and tiring lectures, followed by ridiculously hard exams ('Yes, we did not have that directly in the lectures, but I expect you to work on this in your free time! It would have easily appeared to you if you would have an iota of interest in your chosen field!'), and if you would fail he would be personally offended. His style is rambling and aggressive, so much to teach but so little time, but it's not empty posturing, it's because he loves this. There are copious exhibits from English poetry of the last 500 years or so, but very little explanation, he often gets so excited that there's no time to develop thoughts or explain sentences, on a poem by Chaucer:
English lyric, the technique for singing already complete, no augmentation of singability from Chaucer's days to our won. The French fourteenth-century lyric mode, common to all Europe. Idiom has changed, but no greater fitness to be sung has been attained. NOt even by Shakespeare with the aid of later Italian song-books.
If you love your field you may end up having little time for those who just treat it as a hobby, or by a way to make money:
From the time Thos. Jefferson jotted down an amateur's notes on what seemed to be the current practice of English versification, the general knowledge, especially among hacks, appears to be have diminished to zero, and to have passed into infinite negative.
Because he has so much to say there are many fields he touches, and the reader is left to explore on her own time what Pound wanted to include. But he is never unfair:
I think it would be sheer idiocy to try to force this kind of reading [reading all of Pope's long poems] on the general reader, and nothing could dry up the interest of a young student more quickly than telling him he must, should, or ought to BE INTERESTED in such pages. Such reading is not even training for writers. It is a specialized form of archaeology.
There is some overlap with Borges' relatively recently published lectures on English literature, in that both are much more concerned with how it sounds, how it has an impact on you, than with any technicalities. Borges, blind, would let his students read poems aloud, then exclaim how beautiful they sound, and move on to the next poet. Learning technicalities won't teach you inner depth.
Recommended for: friends of poetry, especially in English, especially around 1800
P.S.: Bonus quote:
The chief cause of false writing is economic. Many writers need or want money. These writers could be cured by an application of banknotes.
Dec 14, 2019 Nicholas Zacharewicz rated it really liked it
Despite being from the 1930s, a few points of Pound's literary sensibilities really resonated with me. In particular, his regard for Chaucer as a more accomplished writer than Shakespeare often had me nodding along. Despite this preference for the older, more challenging author, Pound's own writing is not terribly difficult to follow.
If you're looking for a strongly stated perspective on literature and a rundown of a few major writers in English and their influences, then take the time to read Despite being from the 1930s, a few points of Pound's literary sensibilities really resonated with me. In particular, his regard for Chaucer as a more accomplished writer than Shakespeare often had me nodding along. Despite this preference for the older, more challenging author, Pound's own writing is not terribly difficult to follow.
If you're looking for a strongly stated perspective on literature and a rundown of a few major writers in English and their influences, then take the time to read through this book. ...more
Oct 01, 2017 Nico Battersby rated it really liked it
I'm a lover of literature, but have never cared for poetry. Through use of history, etymology and aesthetics the author has given me a deeper appreciation for poetry, language and communication in general.
I didn't care for most of the poetry he references in this book, but everything else is gold. I'm a lover of literature, but have never cared for poetry. Through use of history, etymology and aesthetics the author has given me a deeper appreciation for poetry, language and communication in general.
I didn't care for most of the poetry he references in this book, but everything else is gold. ...more
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About Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to-mid 20th century poetry.
Pound's The Cantos contains music and bears a title that could be translated as The Songs—although it never is. Pound's ear was tuned to the motz et sons of troubadour poetry where, as musicologist John Stevens has noted, "melody and Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to-mid 20th century poetry.
Pound's The Cantos contains music and bears a title that could be translated as The Songs—although it never is. Pound's ear was tuned to the motz et sons of troubadour poetry where, as musicologist John Stevens has noted, "melody and poem existed in a state of the closest symbiosis, obeying the same laws and striving in their different media for the same sound-ideal - armonia."
In his essays, Pound wrote of rhythm as "the hardest quality of a man's style to counterfeit." He challenged young poets to train their ear with translation work to learn how the choice of words and the movement of the words combined. But having translated texts from 10 different languages into English, Pound found that translation did not always serve the poetry: "The grand bogies for young men who want really to learn strophe writing are Catullus and François Villon. I personally have been reduced to setting them to music as I cannot translate them." While he habitually wrote out verse rhythms as musical lines, Pound did not set his own poetry to music.
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This Week in History: 1917 Five brothers fought in the First World War, only three returned
John Mackie
Vancouver soldier Colin Campbell's hand-written will leaving his effects to his mother during the First World War. PNG
The First World War ended 99 years ago, on Nov. 11, 1918.
But a year earlier, the fighting was still raging. Every day, Vancouver's newspapers carried lists of Canadian soldiers that had been killed, gassed, wounded or were missing.
Sometimes there were photos of the dead, along with small stories. On Nov. 10, 1917, the Province carried a composite photo of five brothers.
"Of Five Campbell Brothers, Two Have Been Killed, One Wounded, And Two Still Serve," said a headline.
"Colin Campbell, who died on Oct. 21, aged 27, of wounds received in action in France, is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, 4506 Inverness, to give his life for the Empire in the present war, and is one of five sons who went to the front.
"He was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and had lived in Vancouver for 10 years. The other brother who was killed was Pte. James Campbell, a former grocery clerk, who fell in action on April 13 at Vimy Ridge .
"A third brother, L-Cpl. Peter Campbell, formerly with Wood, Vallance & Leggat, was recently wounded but has recovered, and is an instructor to Canadian troops in Seaford, England."
Nov. 10, 1917. Story in the Vancouver Province about five brothers who fought in the First World War. PNG
You can find all sorts of information on Canadians who fought in the Great War online. The Canada At War website has a list of 63,322 Canadians who died during or just after the war, and can be searched by name, date, and regiment.
James Campbell was with the B.C. Regiment when he was killed at Vimy Ridge on April 13, 1917. Twenty of his regimental comrades fell the same day; 134 Canadians died overall. But that was a fraction of the 2,407 Canadians that died on April 9, the first day of the famous battle.
British Columbians served in other regiments, as well. Colin Campbell was with the Western Ontario regiment when he died on Oct. 21, 1917.
Library and Archives Canada has put the service records of Canada's soldiers from the First World War on its website online. Colin Campbell's record has 43 pages, including the Attestation Paper from when he signed up on Sept. 28, 1915.
Campbell was 5-foot-5, single, had brown hair and blue eyes, and was a sheet metal worker when he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Like many soldiers, he had been wounded earlier in the war, recovered, and was sent back to the front.
His medical record says he suffered a "gun shot wound (in the) spine, severe" at Vimy Ridge on Jan. 13, 1917. He was released from hospital in England on April 16, only to be killed after being shot in the right arm, leg and abdomen Oct. 21.
Colin Campbell's death record.
One of the saddest parts of his file is a handwritten note of his Military Will. "In the event of my death," he wrote in pencil, "I give the whole of my property and effects to my mother, Mrs. Agnes Campbell, 4506 Inverness Street, South Vancouver, B.C., Canada."
James Tait Campbell named his mother the beneficiary in his will, as well. He was 40 years old and single, but the details of his death are scant — it just says he was "killed in action" on April 13, 1917.
It could take days or weeks for families back home to get the news their loved one had died. To be informed someone was "missing" must have been really hard — you really had no idea whether they were dead or alive. Many missing soldiers were never found because they'd been blown to bits by shellfire.
Sometimes the reports got mixed up, as well. At the bottom of the casualty list for Nov. 10, 1917 is a small story with the headline "Men Are Not Missing."
"Through an error in the transmitting of the casualties from Ottawa, the following list appeared yesterday under the heading of 'Missing, Believed Killed.' This should have read 'Wounded.'"
The item then lists 21 men from British Columbia. Some of the names don't appear on the list of the dead on the Canada At War website, but some do, like R.L. Radford of New Westminster.
The initials stood for Ralph Lancelot, and he lived at 305 — 6 th Avenue in New West. He was born in Nottingham, England on March 20, 1895, and died of wounds on Oct. 30, 1917. He was 22 years old.
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Ralph Lancelot Radford's service record. PNG
Story from the Nov. 10, 1917, Vancouver Province stating that there had been an error the day before, and men who had been reported "missing, believed killed" were actually wounded.
Colin Campbell's Attestation Paper from when he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915. PNG
A "War Service Gratuity to Dependents of Deceased Soldiers" document in the James Tait Campbell file. His parents were denied a gratuity after he was killed because they were already receiving a gratuity from the death of another son during the First World War. PNG


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