Hi Ric, Douglas,
absence of representation, even more than misrepresentation is my cry.
But if you want to ask 'em for the blag direct, you want to get a copy
of 'The Policy for Poetry of the English Arts Funding System'.
Ric is right to feel pessimistic on this account. Key recommendations are:
- exploration of the issue of manuscript purchase as means of keeping
'important' works in England and of supporting their progenitors.
- increasing emphases on placements, such as the ones at the London Zoo,
a firm of solicitors (poetry as tool for enhanced courtroom advocacy) whose
name surprisingly eludes me, the one at Barnsley football club (they went
down a division) and so on
- more (a three fold increase) Writers' Awards (and for more money -
recommendation of £15.000)as approaching 'the end of millenium, the
question of support for the individual artist has become a focus of
attention'. Hmmm
For what it's worth, and I do feel it's worth not simply walking away from
such officious exercises in consultation and manufacture, there is report
of 'Live Writing' pending from ACE, for which I'm off as delegate to a bash
in Manchester in November (so more on that then) and I have an advance copy
of another, called 'Live Writing - explorations in training' which is the
result of a research project by Michael McMillan, commissioned by
Manchester Metropolitan University. At least Michael's report has an
oppositional perspective. For those who nothing about him he's a prominent
black live arts practitioner and activist.
woods are perhaps stirring - or are mine eyes deceiving me
love and love
cris
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