Being a bit of a devil’s advocate here, but if I wrote poetry and a poem I wrote was plagiarised, it probably wouldn’t bother me all that much. I would just make sure that I could prove I wrote the poem first, and let the plagiariser look like a fool. And if I were a famous poet, everyone would know anyway that I wrote the poem. So I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It’s not like there are any royalties in poetry etc.
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Tim Allen wrote:
Thanks for putting these out Jeffrey - interesting. I must say that Andy Croft really seems to have dug a hole for himself in this debate with Lightman - what Croft says is completely disingenuous, which is a great shame - I used to respect him a lot and he is one of the few genuine UK socialist poets, but with this issue he really seems to have become a bit of a defensive crank. I don't get it. Most of the poetry he's defending is pretty rubbish anyway.
Tim A.
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