Roddy,
When reviewing it I did work out the proportions,
and there were far fewer Melbourne poets than
Sydney poets in Landbridge.
Of course, that's not an exact science, just as London
has lots of Scots poets, Melbourne has lots of New
South Welshmen or Welshwomen. But even on place
of current residence there were less Melbourne poets
than Sydney poets.
cheers
Hugh
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From: Roddy Lumsden <[log in to unmask]>
To: Poetryetc <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 4:36 AM
Subject: Oldthread revisited 2 - centres
I recently bought Landbridge and was interested in what jvk was saying about
'Sydney' in the introduction. It seem to me that 'centres' may have
monopolies on publishing and establishments, but that they don't seem to
produce their fair share of poets. Only a handful of Sydney poets in
Landbridge which seems few, considering it has over a fifth of the
population. This seems true here too - when I was writing my Poetry Lists,
I struggled to get to twenty with contemporary poets born and raised in
London. In Scotland, Glasgow also has a fifth of the population, yet other
than Tom Leonard (who has hardly been setitng the heather on fire in recent
decades) and Frank Kuppner, I can't think of a Glasgow poet of note born
after Morgan in 1920. Dunn, Lochhead, Crawford and others are West Coast,
but not Glaswegian. Is this the same elsewhere?
Roddy
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