Oh dear me Barry, are you asking me to give an opinion on the up-to-
date UK? Hard one this as I've lost track over the last few years,
first through poetry exhaustion and then through illness. More often
than not I find myself on the wrong side of the latest so-called avant
because I got fed-up with techno and cross-media stuff being propelled
into prominence simply because it is techno and cross-media, as though
that is what gives it its value. And I don't like the way the thing is
increasingly tied-in with process-obsessed conceptual practices that
have moved across from the Art Colleges. Poetry is in danger of just
becoming another educational tick-box.
The positives.... will have to wait - dinner's up.
On 9 Apr 2009, at 13:52, Barry Alpert wrote:
> What are the "live ends" in the UK from your perspective?
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> Barry Alpert
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> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:25:14 +0100, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I was just beginning to get into the dead end thing too - a few
>> things
>> 'pricked' my ears up.
>> Tim A.
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