I had an answer David.
Tim A.
On 5 Mar 2010, at 13:02, David Lace wrote:
> 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.
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> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:59:43 +0000, Peter Riley
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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:
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>> 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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