Some of the discussions get, shall we say, tedious (even some that I'm a
party to), but the overwhelming value of the list, for me, at any rate, is
the access it has given me and continues to afford to poets and worlds of
poetry it would have been difficult even to know about. As it happens, the
list has brought me into contact with all the principles in the current
noise, all of whom I value, and only one of whom lives in my own timezone.
So, with a lot of patience and a judicious finger on the delete button...
Mark
At 02:06 PM 4/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hiya,
>
>well i've been quiet for a while. in fact i've felt so belaboured with some
>of the ding dong hereabouts that i considered signing off myself lately. But
>I'm still here. Partly because I value the range of people here, partly
>because it has been one list on which there have tended to be more posts by
>women practitioners than on many other poetry lists i have encountered,
>partly for its often energising and provocative projects.
>
>The palette of core posters here does seem to have dwindled in proportion to
>the density of posts over the past weeks in particular. All poetry lists
>have had their mores and rumbles. Sometimes those spats have silenced
>conversation and destroyed the list. I sincerely hope that this will not be
>the case on poetryetc. Above all there are some powerful poets and thinkers
>about poetry here. I value such company hugely.
>
>love and love
>cris
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