It mainly means that I can't assume any close knowledge of the field
so have to contextualise a lot of the particulars, which is rather
hard work. I'd like to think I shall bring people to poetry, quite
hard poetry some of it, rather than confirm those who are already
there. But I hardly know how it will go yet.
best,
Peter
On 26 Feb 2012, at 20:42, Jamie McKendrick wrote:
I like this opening salvo - or credo - and look forward to what follows.
(Not sure exactly what a 'poetry audience' would be. I assume it means
the articles won't be addressed to any particular clique or claque or
club. But readers of poetry would surely overlap with "readers
seriously interested in contemporary issues, philosophical, political,
and cultural"? Or at least you'd hope so.)
Jamie
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Riley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:38 AM
Subject: Fortnightly
Some of this company might like to note that I'm now the "poetry
editor" of The Fortnightly Review, which is a website publishing
articles on a variety of cultural matters, specially interested in
exploring corners and transgressing options, named with reference to
Trollope's Fortnightly Review of 1865. In this capacity I shall be
contributing an article each month, which will normally be about newly
published poetry or poetry events in UK. But the first, now up, is a
kind of creed. The site is free; there is a £10 subscription but
that's for those who want to support it.
Also on the site is an article on Nicholas Moore's "pomenvylopes" by
Martin Sorrel, and several items on Vorticism, Pound/Eliot and so
forth, including a reissue of Pound's essay "Vorticism" from the old
Fortnightly.
My articles are not and will not be be addressed to a poetry audience,
but to readers seriously interested in contemporary issues,
philosophical, political, and cultural.
The review: http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/
My article: http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2012/02/poetry-cults-enclaves/
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