Dear Sheenagh,
I don't think many of us know each other personally outside the list (it's
that old separate continents thing), and use the list to begin to discover
stuff -- opinions, poetry. Mostly we get opinions, but there's also the (to
me) fascinating glimpses of the poetry scenes elsewhere. There's also a
great deal of divergence of said opinions on most topics raised, which I for
one appreciate and enjoy. A lot of people who don't know each other very
well and don't agree with each other either -- doesn't sound like a clique
to me, but maybe it takes time to experience what degree of diversity there
is. I suspect 'cliquey' is always going to be the tough way to say 'hello'.
But hello anyway.
As for how often I'm posting: guilty and ashamed. My university term
finished a fortnight ago, since when I've been feverishly 'returning' to my
own work and some projects that have been set aside for rather too long. The
list operates at the moment for me as a frequent refuge from the Wall
(Hadrian's rather than the Floyd's), which I'm variously climbing, banging
my skull off, vaulting over, chucking stuff over, being hit on the head by
stuff someone else who is possibly me is chucking over, and marching up and
down squinting at the shrubbery from. No-one else is nearby, though Jo
Shapcott was at that Temple of Mithras a couple of months back. They didn't
let her in -- cliquey Roman military spectral bastards!
Anyone else want to describe how they're contributing at present?
Best,
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Sheenagh Pugh <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 9:26 AM
Subject: post from R Lumsden I've only just noticed
> As for what I think of the list, I do think there's a
> cliquey feel to some of it, mainly caused by the fact
> that a few people seem to be able to spend all day
> doing little but reading it and writing to it. They
> must have very accommodating bosses! But your response
> of, more or less, "bugger off then", seems illogical -
> if everyone who feels like an outsider did that,
> wouldn't it be even more cliquey?
>
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