As I understand it, you can't submit contributions to poetry or other
literary magazines as one of your four main research items because they're
not peer-reviewed (the exception being New Writing - the journal rather
than the anthology of the same name). Presumably this means that anything
you publish in, eg, The Rialto or Poetry Wales just gets included under
indicators of esteem, ie counts for very little.
This is not just a problem with the RAE. At my university, you aren't
supposed to include these on applications for promotion either, giving the
impression you aren't publishing anything at all between books.
Best wishes
Matthew
> Is anyone on the list close enough to the RAE process to know whether
> there
> is in existence, publicly or privately, a list of current British (and
> other English-language) poetry magazines giving an indication of their
> standing for RAE purposes?
>
> All poets have a sense of there being a hierachy, and follow it
> instinctively in the career-building business, guessing cannily that the
> TLS and Poetry Review will rate higher than evanescent home-produced mags
> with surrealist names. (In practical terms, we know that journals that pay
> you for a poem are worth getting into... not just for the money.)
>
> But does the academic mind at work in the RAE panel use the same
> instinctive list? Are journals with university links, or containing
> scholarly articles, more likely to score than goof poetry-only mags like
> (say) The Rialto? Does anyone have an insight on these things?
>
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