The thing is, one hand they have Robert Potts promoting poets with
whom I have considerably sympathy, maybe I have narrow tastes. On the
other, they have, uh, a "poet" James Fenton in the same publication.
It's like "head explodes" -> "Good Guardian"||"Bad Guardian"
Isn't JH Prynne a bit main-stream these days? His techniques etc are a
bit conservative aren't they? Enlighten me if you have the
opposite/apposite view!
The marketing of Jeremys poems book is admirable. Certainly an
interesting way of getting people to buy his old poems multiple
times[1]. Mind you I think Pound would have been proud of this
strategy.
Roger
who's now hiding in a bunker Somewhere In England.
[1] Yes, I'm well aware that these poems may have appeared in pamphlet
form elsewhere; but these are of strictly limited circulation, another
interesting marketing ploy.
On 12/21/05, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Right up my street this one Geraldine and Jane.
>
> Jane, hi, remember me, Terrible Work and all that. Welcome to the list. You
> haven't gone back to snooker then? Steve Davis has.
>
> I hope I am not the only one to recognise the overwhelming kick in the head
> irony of your comment - ", if... Robert Potts had hinted anywhere at the
> existence of alternative poetries, it would have been quite wrong of me to
> have criticised the article".
>
> That such a comment can be made here innocently, considering the history of
> this list, is quite amazing. Potts champions certain strands of what are
> still 'alternative poetries', he is trying to balance things up a bit. That
> he should get it in the neck for doing this is not surprising out there in
> the general poetry world where there is still ignorance of the type of work
> he is trying to give a higher profile to and which remains ignorant of the
> history of literary politics that can contextualise the situation; what is
> surprising is that it should come on this list, until of course you consider
> how much this list has changed.
> If you don't know what I am talking about Jane then have a look at the
> archive.
> Tim A.
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