On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Peter Riley wrote:
> right and left (official poetry and academic poetry).
- OK, I think I know what/who the first is/are, but can you say a bit more
about the successful left/academic poetry in the UK?
> What poet of integrity would want to
> take sides in that meaningless confrontation?
- nope, no disagreement here, from the definitions as given. I'm happy to
report that the undrained and undifferentiated places away from those two
channels are supporting substantial populations of Other UK n Oirish
poetries... we've hardly scraped the topsoil off yet...
Who said we had to take sides? I do think "we" (where "we" is all or any
of the members of a list whose emphases are as given) want to make inroads
on the sneer factor, and the ignorance factor, and the sheer lack of
information factor. But no edifice of equal or opposite proportions has,
as far as I know, been proposed or implied. OK - I'm goping to post a
poem...
RC
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