Just for the record, you cannot copywrite a title.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:56 am
Subject: Re: anthology title
Sounds more Downstairs than Upstairs to me, I'm afraid.
Can't complain, guv'nor. (Rex Harrison taking notes as one speaks)
Don't think so.
Yrs
We Can Complain
2008/8/12 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> 'Can't Complain' sounds terrific
> It has a wonderful long suffering quality and if that what the poems were
> about -why not?
> P
> Ps it's not copyright is it :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Sally Evans
> Sent: 12 August 2008 16:08
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: anthology title
>
> Hi David,
> apart from the fact that many poetry publishers are publishers because they
> are poets, publishers have experience of what titles work, that's all. We
> had somebody wanted to call their chapbook Can't Complain once...and a duff
> sounding title is a Can't Complain title to us ever since!
> cheers Sally
> Sally Evans
> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: anthology title
>
>
>> Sally, publishers and poets are not the same beasts. There is a
>> symbiotic (kind of) relationship but ...
>>
>> 2008/8/12 Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> Roger and I dont often agree but we are both publishers -
>>> Sally
>>> Sally Evans
>>> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
>>> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Collett"
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:21 AM
>>> Subject: Re: anthology title
>>>
>>>
>>>> I agree with Sally.
>>>> Maybe subtitled:
>>>> Poetry from an international on-line community.
>>>> Roger
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Evans"
>>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:19 AM
>>>> Sub
ject: Re: anthology title
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> POETRY ETC - The Anthology
>>>>>
>>>>> my suggested title (not suggested by me at first of course)
>>>>> . We're getting silly again guys. Having helped choose heading for 100
>>>>> titles, it needs to be clear, sensible, upbeat and tell you exactly
>>>>> what's
>>>>> in the tin.
>>>>> cheers
>>>>> SallyE
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sally Evans
>>>>> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
>>>>> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alison Croggon"
>>>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:15 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: anthology title
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> let's throw the title open.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Um...nobody said it was closed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, as with Keats, so this anthology: we're still reading Keats,
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> what counts more than the title is the contents. And the contents have
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> required oomph. I'm not too worried.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>>>>>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>>>>> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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