> Hi all
>
> so given this parlous 'list'
>
> what does anybody think 'can' be done about it - pragmatically?
>
>
> love and love
> cris
Hi cris
I've meant to come back to you on this for a couple of days but only now am
able to address the question.
I could be tempted to say 'not a lot'. Insofar as what that list represents,
I think, is an instance of the seemingly inexorable 'branding' or
commodification of culture extending even to the financial backwater that is
poetry. I say that without necessarily descrying any of the poets whose
works are on the list (some of them are very able, some even more than able,
Mr Murray for instance, even tho' his politics are, well, 'different')
And this marketing-up of poetry is part of a cultural shift that is on a
huge scale, one in which education becomes a means to ratifying one in one's
consumerdom. But that 'not a lot' can, on one's own tiny scale, be quite a
said lot. For my part, for ten years I've been involved, week in week out,
in workshops here, and though in some ways it's always been a losing battle,
I'll continue to fight that defeat, likewise, in its small way, my magazine,
limited though my resources are, is an attempt to gainsay the nothing-say.
And what I can do others can do, some maybe with far more access to
resources than I have.
And we can continue to talk in places like this.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
A Chide's Alphabet
Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
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From: "cris cheek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Maps and Activists
> Hi all
>
> so given this parlous 'list'
>
> what does anybody think 'can' be done about it - pragmatically?
>
>
> love and love
> cris
>
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