Jeffrey
this isn't an attack but if you are going to keep sending identical posts to
different lists could you at least vary the titles because it becomes very
confusing otherwise.
2009/10/11 Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]>
> Intemperate comment by Jane Holland:
>
>
> "As an editor, I am open to most things, including this ... type of work.
> As an editor, I have to be open to it, otherwise I wouldn't be doing my
> job properly. But as a poet myself, and as a reader/listener, I have no
> problems in saying that I dislike it intensely.
>
> It makes me suspect utter charlatanism, because it provides no stable
> ground from which to form a measured opinion. Listening to it and
> trying to 1. make sense of it and 2. work out whether it's worth my time
> is like trying to get a spirit level to balance on the wing of a tilting
> airplane at high altitude. If I was going out for an evening of idle
> entertainment, and this only lasted 3 minutes, I might find it amusing
> and exhilarating. But to be asked to look on it as 'serious art' and on
> Keston himself as some kind of Messiah of Poetry makes everything
> inside me rebel.
>
> Re Fiona's remark, I can't particularly criticise her decision to exclude
> that kind of work. I'm reviewing the PR book for Stride, so I won't say
> much here, but it is a book aimed at the mainstream reader, just as
> Poetry Review, frankly, is aimed at the mainstream reader. (Except for
> brief periods of its history, when the red flag was flying above Poetry
> HQ!!!) If Angel Exhaust put out, as an example - and maybe it has, I
> can't recall now - an anthology of its best bits, you can be pretty sure
> you wouldn't find the likes of Seamus Heaney in there."
>
>
> http://z11.invisionfree.com/Poets_On_Fire/index.php?
> showtopic=1701&st=0&
>
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