Following on from cris on sound and language - my enterprises are aesthetic
dictatorships with a lot of the work shared with a couple of friends who
help for the hoot one of whom has disappeared at present
couldnt do it without them
RWC
the IDEA of RWC was to appear once a month and show work in process - I
couldnt keep up the pace although things being otherwise I might have...
cheap and cheerful was the intention
some poets welcomed the processual attitude - work in progress was what I
was after - others wanted to get things *finished
it remains ambiguous in that regard and as production has slowed has lost
that original sense / rush - cranking it up a bit at present
svp comes nearer to the aims of rwc in its frequency - again, cheap and
cheerful - although sometimes it is so hard to get the material out of the
poets that i think of locations for it other than bookshelves
i wonder if this is because of the cheap and cheerful production.... that
it just isnt important to some
anyway - in both cases the production limits outlets to VERY sympathetic
booksellers, standing orders and the committed, no pun intended
Mainstream started with a much wider brief - to publish texts and stage
gigs and other as yet unfulfilled ambitions. It has gone well BUT though
the production is better it is a long way yet from bookshop acceptability
etc
The imprints manage to turn the same few quid over and over and so keep
afloat and they fulfill one of my primary aims - to make material available
quickly and to provide poets who wish to show work in progress / process a
public scratchpad
It worries me though that so many people who might well be interested in
the material cannot easily get it. There are also those who would be
interested in the work if it were otherwise presented. I don't agree with
them but on the other hand dont want to dismiss them
The about to be relaunched mainstream web site may be the way round that
short of transforming mainstream into a _real_ publisher
i am interested in john c's idea - i am not entirely clear on it but think
it is worth investigating and not just in theory
L
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