I have thought for some time that the future of poetry publishing lies
in the Web. And that would make for `poetry in English'.
The cutback in proper publishers having poetry lists continues worldwide.
And there is an audience on the Web if they like what you do.
Numbered in thousands a year rather than hundreds.
I dont see much point in Chris Emery exploring Englishness. I suppose
I am SCottish but it doesnt really matter. Most of my readers are
American and to them I will just be another European. What matters
is having a sense of `home', wherever that might be, and writing
around it. Like Hardy's Wessex. Or Holderlin's Swabia. THese things
are universal in being understood by outsiders.
[I did look at V F-T's `POetic Artifice' then decided I couldnt
be bothered. Theory has always been instinct in my case.]
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