To me it sounds like - one of several possible responses - when a publisher
says he/she is full up, and to try again in a year or two.
Indeed - at best - a slight ambiguity. The publisher is in over the
ears/eyes to look at anything, or your work has minimum value to the Press -
a polite - tho it never seems that way - good-bye to your work.
However - in deference to time and patience - there were those folks and
generations who worked for hundreds of years on getting up a Cathedral!
Whoever it was who told Alison to take another five years was - to my ear -
was letting her know (maybe not so politely) that the poem in its present
form was not reading very well and was not going to be currently rescued by
any effort put it into by this list.
Frankly, my brains are so sugared by the season, my ability to read any poem
with a critical eye is much kaput! I suspect its a communal disease.
Stephen V
>> On 29/12/05 4:49 PM, "Janet Jackson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Alison says
>>>> Maybe one for the bin.
>>>
>>> Oh, I hope you don't.
>>> Leave it for 5 years or so and then look at it again.
>>
>> _Another_ five????!!!
>>
>> Alison Croggon
>
> But why not, if that's what it takes?
>
> joanna
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