David
I'm sorry to hear of the difficulties you're facing with A Chide's Alphabet.
Why not transfer it to a free web space until things improve? Masthead was
on geocities webspace for eight issues because then all it cost me was time.
It is as I recall a fairly simple matter to move the domain name (which if
you've already paid for it would be good for a year or two) to another url.
As for the rankling comment: I did not in fact say that. I said there was a
wellfunded reading circuit in the UK, which in comparison with Australia is
most certainly objectively true, and that Australia seemed to have a better
system than the UK for funding actual writing.
Best
A
On 22/1/04 7:03 PM, "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> A sad note with a bit of an appeal: unless something miraculous happens by
> mid to late March 'A Chide's Alphabet' and its associated materials will
> disappear from the web. This is because the site relies solely on funding by
> me and such funds are now sorely diminished. It is indicative of the true
> state of arts support in the UK that a magazine that has had thousands of
> readers relies entirely for its continuance on my unemployment benefit
> (sorry, here, Alison, but that comment you once made about there being 'a
> well-funded poetry scene in the UK' still rankles, if you only knew the
> truth). Now I don't like the idea of the magazine disappearing into the
> void, it has some fine work in it, including, among others, Trevor Joyce,
> Mark Weiss, Andrew Duncan, Tim Allen, Harriet Zinnes, Emma Lew, Candice
> Ward, Alison Croggon, Jill Jones, Robin Hamilton, Dominic Fox, Kent Johnson,
> Randolph Healy, Philip Nikolayev, Patrick Herron, Angela Gardner and more.
> But go it will, unless that is someone else wants to take it over. Now I am
> willing to hand over all editorial rights and the material to anyone who
> would be willing to take it over, I won't be around on the net to see what
> happens but it does seem sad to me that it should just vanish while I go off
> to work for a pittance in a warehouse. If anyone is interested in taking it
> over please contact me, there is at least eight weeks grace before the
> curtain falls but I'd like to get it sorted out sooner rather than later.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
> & Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://www.chidesalphabet.org.uk
Alison Croggon
Editor, Masthead
http://www.masthead.net.au
Home page
http://www.alisoncroggon.com
Blog
http://alisoncroggon.blogspot.com
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