Poetry Foundation reaction to the Watts fuss:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2018/01/new-essay-at-pn-review-indicts-an-establishment-that-embraces-the-young-popular
It quotes PN Review's editor:
“Many of our readers seem relieved that literary criticism is at last being applied to writing that has, hitherto, been welcomed with open arms by journalists because it is easy to read, contains few challenges … to insist that it can stand on a sure footing beside poetry in what I have now too often seen described as ‘dusty old books’,”
and quotes McNish:
"McNish herself, who hit back on her website on Monday: “A clever retort using high-register vocabulary is fine, but really it is simply saying that the author thinks I’m a shit poet and fucking stupid, too, and that Picador should not be publishing shite like mine. So why not just bite the bullet and say that.”"
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