ok Hugh I had no idea the Australia Council employed the term 'emergent',
and 21st century poets is one of the best suggestions yet!
regards
deb
(oh cackling one you may have noticed from bc emails with myself that I'm
not usually 'pushy', and I'm rarely brave enough to open my mouth on this
list,
yet when I feel slighted the pushy-puss comes out of hiding to vent her
caterwaul
this black cat is off to the beach for a week to cleanse the edges off her
spikes)
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:10 AM
Subject: tired words/unfortunate hierarchical distinctions
> on Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:04 PM
> Debbie Comerford <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:-
>
>
>
> > offence taken. what would you prefer, dear hugh - since you are one of
> the
> > poets i refer to as 'emergent' - would you prefer 'new' (god help us),
> 'next
> > generation (hardly accurate), a phallic 'rising' (????), some tightly
> wound
> > definite term like the 'post-generation of '68', or the pretentious
> > 'postmodern', perhaps 'immature' or 'amateur' might be applicable to
> certain
> > poets??
> >
> > (for those who don't have any idea what hughy and i are talking about,
my
> > thesis is a study of Australia's 'emergent' poetries (1990-) which
> includes
> > poets who have published their first collection since 1990.)
> >
> >
> >
> > hugh (and anyone interested) - do you have any better suggestions???? i
> am
> > open to different terms
> >
> > i await your gracious reply
> > regards
> > deb
>
>
> Dear Deb
>
>
> Many of my friends are unpublished poets in book
> form because opportunities are scarce and publishing
> a first book in Australia has been encroyably difficult
> for a decade.
>
> Because the Australia Council classes those without
> a published book as 'emerging', these writers are ineligible
> for overseas studios or decent sized grants because
> such is the preserve of 'developing writers' (and to be
> classed as 'developing' - you must be an author). This
> is deeply unfair in my book (and in that of The Australian
> Society of Authors). Some poets only become authors after 10,
> 15, 20 or 25 years of journal/magazine/newspaper contributions.
>
> Your classifications preserve an unfortunate governmental
> distinction, which oppresses my unpublished peers. It also
> sounds like it describes poets who have trouble getting out
> of bed in the mornings...
>
> Why not '21st century poets'?
>
> sincerely
>
> Hugh Tolhurst
>
>
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