Fascinating blog with responses, Alison (I couldn't bring myself to
read anything more of his).
I think I mentioned recently that our local paper published a poem a
month on the front page of its Sunday Culture section, by various local
poets, an equal number of men & women. What was really neat was that
the poems were written by chosen poets & then accepted, & ranged from
fairly mainstream to quite experimental, &, perhaps because such a
thing had not happened in the newspaper before, they were read; various
people I would not have expected to mentioned reading mine to me, &
other poets reported the same response. Of course, the poems were
poems.
Doug
On 28-Jan-07, at 7:21 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Thanks, Kaspar. Andrew, in the end, finding this whole thing was
> bothering me deeply, I posted a fairly extended response on
> Sarsaparilla, including some of the disucssion here -
> http://sarsaparillablog.net/?p=483 - no way am I entering the enemy's
> territory on this one.
>
> All the best
>
> Alison
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