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This is rather long...but it seems there is a bit of a row on the other side
of the Atlantic over how/which poetry/poets should be promoted. Can't we all
just get along?....
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/standrews/stanza/lecture.htm
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This has been somewhat ... violently ... discussed on the British Poetry
list.
(Anyone interested in this singularly parochial UK argument should check the
britpo archives.)
My ball-park guess is that the posts weigh-in at about 20% for Neil Astley
and 80% against.
For this to begin to make sense, you have to remember that Astley runs
Bloodaxe.
It might seem singularly odd that NA delivered this lecture at St. Andrews,
if it wasn't that while St. Andrews is physically located in Scotland, of
the Big Four Scottish universities, it's the only one which is spiritually
English.
Perhaps Prince William attended -- anyone know him well enough to ask?
Hey, I actually know someone who teaches there and might have been
present -- I'll copy this post to him in case.
The Freemartin
(St Andrews does have three rather good golf courses. Though playing the
Old Course can be a right bugger when the wind is blowing the wrong way off
the sea.)
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