Well said, Peter. I mentioned something along those lines in relation to
other “minority” poets, here, a few months ago, and not many people
could find an answer.
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:59:43 +0000, Peter Riley
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>Why is someone like Sascha Akhtar (and there are others) not invited
>to something like The Brighton Poetry Festival (and others similar)?
>Why is it almost entirely white? (one exception on current list of 20
>poets) (At the old CCCP Dave Marriott used to be our staple
exception)
>
>Why on the other hand is someone like Sascha Atkhar so welcome and
>rewarded in the "mainstream" area when she doesn't, it seems to me,
>really write like that? But the same people will not invite British
>poets writing in a mode at all similar to hers.
>
>Does it occur to anyone that there is something crazy or stupid going
>on?
>
>PR
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>On 4 Mar 2010, at 12:09, Carrie Etter wrote:
>
>Sascha Akhtar's "The Sufi": http://carrieetter.blogspot.com
>
>Just two more posts before the launch of Infinite Difference: Other
>Poetries by UK Women Poets in London on the tenth of March....
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