I have to say, and this isn't directed specifically at Heather, that I've
come to feel that grants in poetry have in many respects a corrupting
effect, certainly when it's a matter of grants for writing poetry (where
state money might be of use is in marketing and distribution and printing,
that is to say to publishers)
I don't work these days, because of disability, but I know I wrote more, and
better, when I was working full-time than now.
2009/4/24 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> I also congratulate you, Heather, on your arts council grant. That's
> terrific! Andrew
>
> 2009/4/24 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Congratulations on the grant, heather.
> >
> > I have followed your many-sided takes day by day, & certainly the
> > discipline of it has been rewarding for you.
> >
> > Doug
> > On 23-Apr-09, at 9:31 AM, Heather Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Here's a couple new poems for you as part of the challenge - I also just
> >> got
> >> an Arts Council grant to write my new collection! Hoorah! I may post a
> >> few
> >> pieces up here as I work on it for people's advice...
> >>
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/>
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> >
> > There's the wind and the rain
> > And the mercy of the fallen
> > Who say they have no claim to know what's right
> > Dar Williams
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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David Bircumshaw
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