I didn't realise that the following presses were funded:
Carcanet Press Ltd
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Anvil Press Poetry Ltd
Faber and Faber Ltd
In my naivete I assumed they made their money from selling poetry books. I think funding for them should be stopped, seeing as they are businesses.
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I wrote of 'pressures' not 'conspiracy'.
Here's a link to a possible breakdown off ACE (fuck it - I'll use their stupid acronym) funding for poetry 'bodies' 2012-18.
http://www.charleswhalley.co.uk/2014/09/16/arts-council-england-poetry-funding/
It is quite clear that Apples & Snakes and the Poetry Society receive the largest support and I think it's likely that support will have an influence.
My use of the muddied, blind and perjured term 'democratic' was in the sense of 'open' and opposed to such meanings as 'secretive, arbitrary, authoritarian'.
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