H'm. I like what Hall said but wonder whether six years would be better
than six months. Exceptions can be allowed - political poetry perhaps - as
a sub-genre of known lower standards :)
On 21 March 2015 at 08:11, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well there goes poetryetc then, Max! Still, some thoughtful advice which
> would mean more had I the diligence, or, dare I say it, the sincerity.
>
> Bill
>
> On 20/03/2015, at 7:56 AM, Max Richards wrote:
>
> > Never, never, never show a poem to anybody until you have worked on it
> in solitude for at least six months.
> >
> > http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/flying-revisions-flag
>
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