Dear Chopped Rodent
I got my copy of Speaking Words in the post today, I am quite bemused at
that how an anthology with so much financial support manages to look like
the ultimate piece of crap, I was showing it to several European persons
tonight and they were bewildered at the ability of the English to make
rubbish out of something. My own poems haven't suffered too much - one prose
poem has been printed as centered, while another poem has a dropped line
that isn't supposed to be there, but it could be worse. I haven't dared yet
look at yours in case they might have been butchered.
CONGRATULATIONS on your book.
All the Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: Robin Hamilton - Pacts and Conjurations - New and Selected
Poems
> >> Joanna (Boulter) wearing her editor's hat, chopped [rightly] quite a
bit
> >> from it, mostly rhymed poems.
> >
> > You lie! It was only 2 or 3 that I actually chopped
>
> Um ... I beg to differ.
>
> There were the Class Exclusions -- no translations, nothing from the
> Sparrow&Spider ... [Why does bloody +everyone+ loathe the Sparrow and the
> Spider? It has to be the only example of Consensus Judgement I've ever
> encountered. With the exception of the Jimmy Crichton poems, one of which
> [details on demand] has just been published in the +Speaking Words+
> anthology, you rubbished virtually every rhymed poem I ever wrote.
>
> With the exception of (among others) "Hearthside Lullaby".
>
> You were right, and the only reason I didn't dedicate the entire damn book
> to you was that it was pointed out to me that you can't dedicate a book to
> your editor.
>
> So the end result is better than what I submitted.
>
> So sue me.
>
> But I still think "Persuasions to Enjoy" should have stayed.
>
> <grumble>
>
> A Dumb Rodent
>
> (howling in anguish)
>
> > (though that begs the question of whether or not I *ought to have
chopped
> > further.) I fiddled your order about a bit, too. And I'd do it again, if
I
> > had to.
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