I've been rumbled by that canny Ms Croggon, I shall make an appointment at
the self-effacement clinic tomorrow.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Salt poetry editor Roddy Lumsden’s comments about the BritPo
list.
Come Geraldine, obviously any woman pointing out she was overlooked has no
reason to say so aside from egomania. It's not as if women are routinely
overlooked or anything.
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On 21/07/2013, at 8:50 PM, Geraldine Monk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm sure I meant 'other women' otherwise I wouldn't have written 'other
> women'. Does that answer your question?
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lace" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Salt poetry editor Roddy Lumsden’s comments about the BritPo
> list.
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> Are you sure Geraldine that you do mean all other women or just yourself
> being left out of the list Tony made? Just asking.
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> Aw alright Tony I'll forgive you even though you start off by saying you'd
> forgotten my Selected! But it is a point worth making every so often
> about the way women are so often not included on roll-calls in Britain.
> The accusation of gloating wasn't directed towards you, apologies if I
> gave you that impression but for others who seem extremely harsh and
> cynical towards Chris and Jen who worked their socks off to make Salt what
> it was/is.
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> Aw Randolph - it was inevitable - I couldn't help but laugh!!
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> Gx
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Frazer
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 8:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Salt poetry editor Roddy Lumsden’s comments about the BritPo
> list.
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> Sorry, Geraldine. I'd forgotten the Selected -- only remembered Ghost &
> Other Poems, so I had you down for a single appearance. Mea culpa. It's
> more than likely I've forgotten others too. It was done without a lot of
> research….
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> I certainly don't gloat about it; I've been trying to defend them, while
> not ignoring some of the problems they had. Without Chris' help way back
> when, Shearsman wouldn't have developed quite so quickly.
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> Tony
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> On 20 Jul 2013, at 20:42, Geraldine Monk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> One of Salt's earliest publications was a very substantial Selected Poems
> of mine followed by the Companion (ed by Scott Thurston) and then my
> beautiful Ghost & Other Sonnets. I'm also almost 61 years of age so you'd
> think I'd qualify for Tony's list below more than some he mentions but
> no - it's all blokes.
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> I know you publish and champion loads of women writer's Tony and of course
> you published my Cusp but if I may say so it's always a bit depressing
> when women are dropped off these type of lists because that's how women
> poets (or women movers and shakers in public life in general) disappear
> from view altogether - not by willful exclusion but by a gradual dropping
> off and dropping out of roll-call lists and discussion of writers. I've
> noticed it throughout my writing years and even in a list like one where I
> seem to qualify on all levels I'm not mentioned. Sigh.
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> Obviously Salt and Chris H-E have been good to me and I was dismayed when
> they appointed Roddy Lumsden as poetry editor as he was a man who seemed
> to conduct a rather nasty vendetta against me for some time, ridiculing my
> work in public and the like, which I found deeply distressing. To all
> intent and purposes my contact with Salt all but finished with the
> appointment of him. It's all a bit sad really. Nothing to gloat about for
> sure.
>
> Geraldine
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