I've read this before - I've read the whole piece. It's really badly argued because quite frankly the argument isn't there. There are two possibilities : she's talking to herself about herself. Fair enough. If she feels guilty about some omission or attitude she has towards the writing of others no one can argue with that. Or, she's talking about something she is determined to import from America with no recognition that it doesn't translate into this country. There are enough real negatives in the world, we don't need to invent them. And that's all I care to say on this.
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Subject: “Professor Andrea Brady criticises “structure of white privilege” in British poetry communities”
She says:
“As a poet and publisher of avant-garde, she said that as long as it remained a “gated community of white privilege, disdainful of more ‘popular’ forms like spoken word”, then it cannot claim to be radical. She concluded: “If white avant-garde poetry is threatened with extinction, it may be because it is on the wrong side of history.”
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/hss/164834.html
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