The Poetaster's Response

The Poetaster's Response is an A5 poetry booklet, published in 2011, compiling over 80 of DS Davidson's cynical and humorous poems previously published in various Atlantean Publishing outlets up to the end of 2008.
Available to order.
===Trivia===
*A poetaster (rhyming with "aster", not "taster") is a contemptuous term historically often applied to inferior, oversentimental, poor-rhyming and just plain bad poets — particularly those thought to harbour unwarranted pretensions to artistic value. The Latin word was coined by Erasmus in 1521, and introduced to the English language by Ben Jonson in 1600. Here, though, DS Davidson reclaims the word as a badge of pride, worn in the face of critics. The original title of the collection was to be 'The Poetaster's Retort' — but Christopher Catt James' cover art inspired an even more to-the-point variation!
*DS Davidson's 'serious' poetry has also been anthologised, in Step Inside My Mind..., by Atlantean.
==Contents==
*The Poetaster's Response
*Crimes Against Poetry
*The Poetic Licence 'suite'
**Poetic Licence
**A letter to The Supplement criticising Poetic Licence, from Cory Harding
**A Poetic Reply to the above by DS Davidson
**Another letter to the same Supplement praising DS Davidson's poetry, from AC Evans
*The Garbajman
*Wasted Life
*Revolution Ad Infinitum!
*I sat down pen in hand, to write a psychedelic, poetic extravaganza (Helps if you recall the songs of Woodstock, although I've misremembered the words)
*Hate You
*Not Quite A Masterwork
*Three-wheeled Wagon
*Recycling
*Going Online
*Silhouettes (2007)
*Same Highway
*Make Your Mind Up
*Haven't We Forgotten Someone?
*Decorate The Tree
*A New Question
*Something Magic
*Light Show
*Real Life
*Why Ask?
*Enjoy
*Famous For Fifteen Minutes
*War On Terror (I)
*War On Terror (II)
*Contradict
*No Cars
*Hypocrite
*Pop Goes The Weasel: A Micro-Rhyme
*Please, we need your kind assistance Or, An Email from Africa
*Junkmail
*Trick-or-Treat
*Quango, Quango
*Now a word from our sponsors...
*A Poem To Keep Your Spirits Up
*A Lesson Still Not Learned
*Brave New World
*Sins Of The Father
*Norm Ality
*Nice Guys
*Tyranny
*Poetry is written with a passion(Thus it sometimes provokes powerful and not always rational responses from the audience)
*Life's Lottery
*Gambling Man
*Da Vinci
*Porton Down
*Left-right-might
*Wonder Boy
*The Milkman's Assistance
*Piano Player: A Real-Life Lesson
*Kill Innocents: Become A Martyr
*Warning
*Technophobe
*Old McDonald's Farm
*English in The Sun
*Female Slaves
*Five brief untitled poems
*Untitled reissian haiku
*Tom (five haiku sequence)
*Communicate (haiku)
*Mid East Mania (haiku)
*Crazy Rain Haiku (haiku)
*Guess (haiku)
*Policed!
*To Be PC
*True Words
*And Now A Word From The National Tenebrous Society...
*Words Of The Sage
*Witness
*Where To Now?
*The Fires of Lewes
===Trivia===
*The Garbajman is written to the 'tune' of The Candy Man, from classic film musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and famously sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and obliquely references DS Davidson's former role as editor of Atlantean's satire/humour/nonsense 'zine Garbaj.
*A Lesson Still Not Learned carries the note: "Wilfred Owen wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est during the First World War — unfortunately we still have yet to learn that it is not a fine and fitting thing to die for your country... DS Davidson's poem recreates the style of the original updated to the events of today. Not much has changed.".
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