Peter said:
>Ah, that'll be the International Library of Poetry you have there. One
>of those little challenges that can fill an idle few moments is to try
>to write a poem that does *not* get a Special Mention, or become a semi-
>finalist in one of their competitions. I've tried it a few times, and
>never succeeded (and some readers may recall that I can write pretty
>dire verse if I put my mind to it.) Others have sent scribblings from
>their infant offspring or sections copied from the telephone directory
>in unsuccessful attempts to gain that elusive rejection slip from the
>ILP. Occasionally I spot a little article in the local newspaper
>relating that some schoolchild or other has had their poem commended and
>published by this august organisation. And you can bet that Mummy and
>Daddy and Grandad and Granny and Auntie Ethel have all bought copies of
>the book it appeared in. Sure it's for real.
And speaking as a member of an editorial board, I can add that this
publisher does better than most of us in terms of returns against costs.
Guaranteed sales! Huge profits! A dream most publishers can only have, not
live.
But then they play more or less fair. ILP doesn't.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
he said the President said
he would not kill anyone
anymore and the way he would not kill
would be to let the killers kill
and then he would not be a killer
Eli Mandel (circa 1970)
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