?????? What? 'Animus' - what animus? I simply said that Todd appeared to make it quite clear that he thinks prizes etc are OK. And I said I don't like prizes. How is that animus or a 'general characterising of his blog'? I actually have quite a lot of time for Todd Swift even though there might be more than a few things I might disagree with him about - no big deal. A weird post Jamie.
Cheers
Tim
On 4 Oct 2015, at 16:01, Jamie McKendrick wrote:
> This is all very vague and it's of little interest to make one writer's blog the target of this kind of animus - or at least give some specific examples so we know what's being referred to. I can't say I've followed Todd Swift's Eyewear more than a few times, and those have often been things I disagreed with, but the only reference I've seen there regarding poetry prizes was a negative one in which he was criticising the narrowness of their shortlists. As he's the publisher of a small press, this isn't an unexpected point of view, but it certainly doesn't support David's or Tim's general characterising of his blog.
> You could argue that anyone who complains bitterly about the results of literary prizes attributes an exaggerated importance to them but that would hardly make him unique or worth singling out.
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>> Hi, Tim. Yes that seems to be the case with Todd. He seems too focused on the "trappings" of what he thinks a poet is or should be (winning awards, being published by respectable publishers, giving readings at important festivals etc). I can’t see the point of awards, myself, other than to bolster the egos of publishers and other interested parties, such as various academic institutions and the press, as David (Latane) and Ron touched on. It seems to me that the same "range of names" always appear in the finalist or winner lists for such awards.
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>> Hi David and yes Todd's seeming enthusiasm for awards etc is not something that endears me to his projects. I think he made a decision a while back that such things were part and parcel of the scene and that it was better to go with such things without any qualms. I don't like it, I've got qualms, which sounds like a nasty form of sea sickness that cannot be cured by any medicine of the same name.
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