That isn't the issue, Peter, I wasn't talking about why Fulcrum published the poem but what the perception of people was about it
being in there, which is a different matter. My reality is that of simultaneously being 'accepted' while also being made to feel
like a second-class, inferior person, as it were, because the class system in Britain is so strong it cannot allow that someone like
me, living in a tower block etc. can actually be a poet.
This isn't special pleading, for every me there must be many others in the same situation, the problem with British poetry is that
it is so irredeemably bourgeois, hence its suppressions of voice, this applies to the so-called avant-garde as well as the
mainstream.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
& Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Coherent traditions (was Re: Performance Poetry)
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David Bircumshaw wrote:
> There were a few things I noticed of
> relevance: one, the most inaccurate reading I gave, full of
> slips and errors, also got the biggest hand of the night,
> because I waved the latest copy of Fulcrum in which the poem
> was in, beforehand, so my presumption is that the response
> wasn't to the poem but to some kind of perception that it had
> 'status'.
It could be, Dave, that Fulcrum published the poem because it was good...
:P
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