It's usually not a list of peer-reviewers, but of advisors who funnel
the work of others to the journal.
At 11:14 AM 10/21/2009, you wrote:
>When you say:
>
>"The people on the editorial board by the way are basically there as
>peer-reviewers"
>
>This means that anonymity will be taken out of the peer-review process-
>-this can't be a good thing surely? For peer review to work properly one
>shouldn't know who is likely to be vetting their contributions. It could
>lead to people being unwilling to submit work, which would detrimental
>to the aims of the journal.
>
>
>
>On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:31:39 +0100, Elizabeth James
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Quite. Consider the possibility that academic discourse might actually
>be as
> >interesting and rewarding, intellectually / creatively, as poetry (reading
> >or writing); and then getting to be allowed to apply that mind, in work
> >time, to the exciting, difficult and intelligent poetry you already love in
> >the evenings ... To me it looks like a coup, rather than a defence.
> >
> >The proclaimed inclusion of 'poetics' will complicate that argument,
> >admittedly.
> >
> >The people on the editorial board by the way are basically there as
> >peer-reviewers, and do'nt run the journal. Well that's how it is for me
> >anyway. I am proud to be among them, furry hoodies and Latin graces
> >notwithstanding ...
> >e
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >Gosh. That seems fairly sweeping. What if, rather than stemming from
> >"insecurity", it's simply that it's interesting and stimulating to
> >think in a disciplined way about practice? (Sorry, praxis...) I
> >certainly find such things interesting to read. And I just don't get
> >this idea that journals of whatever stripe ought to be wholly without
> >agendas, since I don't understand how that would be at all desirable
> >or interesting - surely it would just mean beige all round? I And
> >don't we all, as Borges pointed out, make our own canons?
> >
> >xA
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
Forthcoming in November 2009.
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
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