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.
Cheers
Tim
On 2 Oct 2015, at 17:11, David Lace wrote:
> I’ve just been browsing Todd Swift’s blog and noticed that over the years he’s made a great point of highlighting and promoting poets who’ve won prestigious poetry prizes and awards. He does this to the point that it becomes nauseating after a while. He’s even complied lists of who he thinks are important US and British poets based only (so it seems) on such prizes and awards. I don’t think he’s alone in this sort of enthusiasm for awards. It seems pretty pervasive--at least in mainstream poetry circles.
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> Does anyone have any opinions on this either way?
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