Sorry for the delay in replying but I have been away.
This is the debate I was referring to and I have heard
no feedback. It is a bit sad that Rupert LOydell was on
the panel when his grant seems to have been taken away.
But I am told he made a lot of money off his book sale.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Roger Collett wrote:
> Douglas [Clarke]
> Is this the debate you were talking about earlier?
> Has there been any feedback yet?
> Roger
>
>
>
> University of Warwick Researcher Says Poetry Publishing in Crisis -
> "At the major presses, the accountants are in charge and poetry is
> virtually banned"
> Date :18/01/2002
>
> Type : Press
> Release
> University of Warwick researcher David Morley will open a major debate on
> the future of poetry
> on Wednesday 30th January at the University of Warwick by claiming that:
> "These are bleak times to be a new poet. At the major presses, the
> accountants are in
> charge and poetry is virtually banned. When Oxford University Press slammed
> its doors
> on poets last year it signalled the end of a long tradition of publishing.
> And there was
> worse to come. Faber and Cape slimmed their list to a trickle of books.
> Bloodaxe
> announced a three year moratorium on publishing new work. The few presses
> left are
> underfunded and understaffed, yet overwhelmed with new poets clamouring at
> the sacred
> gate".
> David Morley, Director of the University of Warwick's "Warwick Writing
> Programmme" will
> make these remarks as chair of a debate entitled The Crisis in Poetry
> Publishing at the University
> of Warwick's Arts Centre, on Wednesday 30th January at 7.15pm, which will
> bring together for
> the first time five of the key players from the publishing industry to
> discuss the issues involved
> in poetry publishing today. Details on the panellists now follow: As
> chairman of Bloodaxe
> Books, Simon Thirsk has wrestled with their finance/marketing/survival
> problems for 20 years.
> Esther Morgan is the editor of the press Pen&Inc. She lectures in creative
> writing at the
> University of East Anglia and has published her first collection with
> Bloodaxe. Christina
> Patterson is the new Director of The Poetry Society, the poets' equivalent
> of the NUS. Rupert
> Loydell is an acclaimed poet and Arts Council Poetry Fellow at Warwick; he
> edits Stride
> Publications. Matthew Hollis is co-editor of Strong Words: Modern Poets on
> Modern Poetry
> (Bloodaxe), and works first as an editor at Oxford University Press and now
> at Faber as assistant
> poetry editor. David Morley, Director of the Warwick Writing Programme and a
> poet himself,
> chairs the debate, which will be recorded and published.
> For further information please contact:
> David Morley, University of Warwick Tel: 024 76 523346
>
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