Dear All of the One Copyrights,
Sacrifice on the altar of art all your ambitions of money, fame and
authorship.
Poets are made of dust, as all the other humans.
Their art could eventually survive.
But it such a hard pathway. No guarantee is given. So we should not desire
one.
No grandchild's pocket money is secure.
Give up all worries.
(also, think about the dilapidating attitude of heirs).
erminia
(in a Franciscan mood)
----- Original Message -----
From: Sheenagh Pugh <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:20 PM
Subject: re Holy thursday
> Matthew writes about not being able to photocopy poems
> for students "I can't see why this should apply in a
> limited group for educational purposes"
> Too true. An ex-student of ours has just won a major
> literary competition and I wanted, with his
> permission, to put the poem on our Masters in Writing
> web site, which has a target audience of at least
> 90...
> I was told no, not until December when it's first
> appeared in a mag with a circulation, I suspect, of
> not much more (it certainly doesn't deserve one).
> Daft. I don't care who uses my poems for educational
> purposes or for fun amongst friends. I do get aerated
> when the BBC does it without paying, and what about
> the Forward anthologies, which use poems without pay
> and don't even notify the authors or send them free
> copies? Anyway my publisher didn't pay me a halfpenny
> for the last two, and doesn't reply to letters of
> complaint on the subject, so what's a web site here or
> there!
>
>
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> Sheenagh Pugh
> http://www.geocities.com/sheenaghpugh
>
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