Hang on. I haven't suggested anything. I asked a question.
Sean O'Brien
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From: Ally Kerr <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 11:00 AM
Subject: re query
On the aubject of legal rights in publishing, online
or otherwise, I'd have thought there could only be
a contract if money changed hands. If an editor pays
£10 for a poem on the understanding it doesn't appear
anywhere else, he might have a right to his money back
if it did. Same with competitions; if they award you
£10 on condition your poem doesn't appear anywhere
before their crappy, ill-publicised "competition
anthology" comes out 6 months late (yes, all right,
that's a personal gripe from way back), again if it did
they could claim the moolah back. But if they pay you
the grand sum of sfa, as do most editors online or on
land, I don't see what comeback they have. Don't feel
much sympathy either. There are good editors, I've had
polite letters from editors and I don't even mind rude
ones as much as no reply or none for 6 months. Sean
O'Brien seems to suggest that if we were editors we'd
know what overworked saints they all are. Well I've been
an editor, not of a poetry magazine but a professional
journal. It wasn't my fulltime job, I did it evenings,
but I still managed to answer correspondence in a reasonable
time. Had I not, I would certainly have resigned the job to
someone who had time to do it right.
Ally Kerr
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