I agree. It's an awful title. Though it’s perhaps ironic in that the
majority of the poets included are mostly unknown. Perhaps this
anthology is meant to amend this.
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:36:20 +0000, David Bircumshaw
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>I don't know about anything else in this dispute but has anyone else
here
>ever been on an Identity Parade? I have, and they are drab,
disjunctive,
>mean-and-petty-spirited, depressing, cold, ludicrous, disquieting
affairs
>which leave an unpleasant taste in the mouth and a bad feeling on
the skin.
>And you get paid in small change!!
>I can't think of a less appropriate title for a poetry anthology, it's a
>misfired metaphor that feels like something straight out of an
advertising
>agency's box of cheap triX.
>(I'm over 45 and out of the anthology's age range so I have no
personal
>interest, as it were)
>
>On 13 March 2010 14:36, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Todd Swift's open letter to Roddy Lumsden:
>>
>> http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2010/03/open-letter-to-roddy-
>> lumsden.html
>>
>> and
>>
>> Swift's reply to Lumsden's response:
>>
>> http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2010/03/reply-to-roddy-lumsden.html
>>
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>
>
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