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> From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
> But perhaps all those Irish poets would have been just as happy in an
> anthology called the opposite of Other
I find this offensive, tantamount to saying that Trevor Joyce's careful
argument was informed by nothing save a blind urge to be published,
anytime, anywhere, i.e. in Other or its opposite.
And if it's a shame Trevor or Geoffrey Squires etc. aren't in
> this anthology isn't it also a shame if Ciaran Carson isn't in it, or
> Michael Hartnett, or John Montague, or James Liddy, (if they're not)
since
> they're all (obviously) capable of writing interesting poems.
It's not quite the same type of shame. The loss is different when the
poets concerned have been actively blackballed for decades by the
keyholders to the national poetry outlets in their own country. Trevor
Joyce's point about the view of Irish poetry being presented becomes more
pointed in this context.
mais toujours gai
Randolph Healy
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