Good point.
Original Message:
Now maybe your idea of a poemy poem is simply one that isn't in your
list below, one that looks like any other poem until you read it. I'm
saying this because over the past 10 years I've encountered an
increasing prejudice against poems that look like ordinary poems from
people who think that just because something is visual, sound,
interactive, conceptual or whatever then it's the dog's bollocks -
which of course is bollocks proper. It has been the excuse for masses
of trivial crap passed off as innovation etc - often it is the poorest
of 'poemy poems' given a bit of a makeover on the computer or placed
within some pointless interactive project. Most of these people don't
read poetry and yet think they know all about it. Those of us who
actually write and read poetry are often stuck in no-man's land
between the two cool extremes of cliched performance poetry on one
side and the arty framing on the other.
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