Well I'm sure I didn't intend to provoke a response quite like that;
and I accept Robert Sheppard's comments that my sense of British --
US relations reflected the earlier period covered by his talk;
it is interesting that in John Cayley's and cris cheek's two
inspiring messages regarding the use of electronic media that there
is a sense that how the poetry world operates in the US is quite
different;
there is almost a sense that an American poetry grouping sees itself
as having a right to be at the centre, in the way the a British (or
Irish) experimental or innovative (or whatever term is useful)
grouping would not see themselves; thus we can look enviously at
those US writers, but are left with the challenge John Caley has set,
to grasp the potential of the Web, of e-mail etc.;
I am aslo disappointed to see that the archives of PMC will not
continue to be publicly accessible -- can we have some more
information on what the change is? is the MUSE project a pay per use
set up, or is it to do with copyright issues?
Mark
Mark Leahy
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School of English
University of Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
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