Jamie, I can’t answer your question about what I mean by “academic poetry” other than repeat what I said before, that I understand it’s meaning in the context of Tim’s article and how it is generally used in the other articles on the Argotist. If you read all the articles on that site about this topic you will know what I mean.
I don’t think you have ‘fully answered’ my question. And as for you saying you’ve ‘given a basic but fairly accurate account of what happens in creative writing courses’, that has nothing to do with my question. Nor does you saying, ‘If you think I am describing creative writing courses inaccurately you should tell me where I’m going wrong, but don’t keep on trying to discover a non-existent sub-text’. This also has nothing to do with the question, which wasn’t about whether you had described creative writing courses accurately or not, or about whether I doubted this or not, or about whether, if I did doubt it—which I don’t, that doubt led to me, in your words, ‘trying to discover a non-existent sub-text’. None of that is relevant to my question about your earlier comments on “practice” and “theory” in academic creative writing courses.
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Jamie McKendrick wrote:
Though you haven’t even tried to answer the one thing I asked you, I’ve fully answered your question twice now and I’ve also given a basic but fairly accurate account of what happens in creative writing courses. I’m not ‘complaining’ or trying ‘to suggest ‘ anything - these are just your strange inferences. I ‘m sure everyone else who has read this can understand my points.
If you think I am describing creative writing courses inaccurately you should tell me where I’m going wrong, but don’t keep on trying to discover a non-existent sub-text.
Jamie
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