It’s understandable that those poets who are not mainstream but who have been published by Salt in the past, would now want to defend Salt’s current approach to poetry publishing, as that is human nature, and a favour given is always returned, so to speak. But I doubt whether Salt’s motivation for their revised approach is based on wanting to “complicate” things, in the way you suggest, Cris. It seems founded more on the economic realities of trying to sell poetry to a largely disinterested wider public, more than anything else.
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surely the point is that Salt is complicating things and that's a good thing
good riddance to cosy notions of a-g and mainstream
that sort of partisan crap was always a hopeless site of moaning and primping on both sides
and what if they (o tutles forbid) actually manage to sell a few books and blur the line between capitalist exploiters and cliquey potlatch - what if they can actually be commercial and still market the Charles Bernstein reader or whatever
maybe, just maybe some people will stumble upon some poetry and if they like it what's so bad about that
when i was leaving school and poking about in bookshops presses like Calder were blurring the boundaries . . we need more such presses, i think, rather than putting undue pressure and blockhead criticism in the path of some trying to get a few books into circulation
Fence, over here, for example is already into its 3rd edition of Ariana Reines' The Cow and there has no more extraordinary and risky and fierce book of poetry published on either side of the atlantic in the past half decade imo
;=)
cris
On Mar 10, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Tim Allen wrote:
Bloody hell Giles don't go complicating things. OK. Come on all of you
out there - own up - who else is in it? Come on, out with it...
On 10 Mar 2012, at 18:08, GILES GOODLAND wrote:
Wait--I'm in this anthology too
--- On Sat, 10/3/12, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Review of Salt's "The Best British Poetry 2011"
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, 10 March, 2012, 17:26
Carrie's work seems to cross a
divide. I know I annoyed her once when I said that in her
live reading she came across as quite mainstream whereas it
didn't read that way on the page. Anyway i think I'll write
a poem called Not On Roddy's Radar.
Cheers
Tim
On 10 Mar 2012, at 15:53, Tony Frazer wrote:
Only Carrie Etter.
A lot of what I do isn't really on Roddy's radar,
although he's been nice enough about the some of the list.
Tony
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