>Douglas we published a Mal Morgan essay a couple of years ago, a talk he'd
>given in Wollongong using individual poems to illustrate his points. (I
>guess that's an acceptable context ... addressing an audience on a subject
>and using the work of other writers to make your point?) But reprinting it
>in essay form, it took us ages getting approval from individual poets,
>Jack Gilbert and two or three others to use their work, a couple of months
>anyway. They were kind enough to give it though.
>
>Ralph
>
>>And I do think that when
>>I've discussed the poems of particular authors, I have also been helping to
>>promote that work. If such quotation eventually leads a few readers to the
>>volume from which it came, is that not a good thing?
Ralph
One of the things that can get in the way (I know as both editor & critic)
is the publishers who control the rights so you have to pay the fee to them
rather than dealing directly with the authors... I've usually had less
trouble with the authors (when they control the copywrite).
And I remember a friend writing on soe rather obscure Brit poets as well as
Yeats. The Yeats permissions weren't too bad, but the family of one really
obscure poet demanded incredibly high fees. So it goes...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
My roof was once firm
yet now it cannot even
keep the stars out.
Christopher Dewdney
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