Tim, That's why I put "mainstream" in quotes. I.e. TLS is not what
many-of-you would mean when you use the term "mainstream". You would
mostly mean certain poets and editors who are in fact incapable of
James Campbell's professional nastiness (though some of them, among
the most successful, are not). The Establishment feeds off the
mainstream rather than is it.
Otherwise, well if you want to believe in this dichotomy, carry on.
Some people are I dare say temperamentally bound to it. But I don't
know how you read certain poets within it, especially some younger
poets (or myself possibly at times not at others) who seem to be
writing outside that entire structure, a move which I'm glad of.
P
On 13 Oct 2009, at 10:20, Tim Allen wrote:
A good post Peter and a good point about certain individuals, but...
how can you make the below comment if you do not know what you mean by
'mainstream'? I'm not going to argue with you over this topic ever
again, but your demarkation between mainstream and what you call the
literary establishment does seem to back me up a little. I've talked
before about the particular nature of the current Brit mainstream and
how it differs from the older and vaguely entrenched establishment.
Ummm, vaguely entrenched, I like that.
All best
Tim A.
On 13 Oct 2009, at 09:48, Peter Riley wrote:
> TLS is not "mainstream", it is the literary establishment, a very
> different thing.
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