On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Michael Gardiner wrote:
> Anyone with the vision to close this group's gap between JHP and other
> serious British poetries?
- Michael, in the nature of any e-group is the fact that the dialogue is
only as good as the participants, the time and care they take over their
postings. That's particularly true of an *open* group, which this one sets
out to be. They're also limited from the outset, not just to those who are
interested in an aspect of the subject, but those who have e-mail, and
then those who care to contribute to the process (I get messages from
those who regularly scan the archive without joining - a sort of deep
lurking). So we have, currently, a small, non-representational set, yes?
I've enjoyed greatly some of the prynneposts, particularly Peter Riley's
and John Wilkinson's, wouldn't've missed them for the world, tho I'm in no
way cambrocentric myself.
Like you, I'd like to see a bigger range of britpos covered - but how to
get it? Bark for it? Hardly effective, as you're already finding.
Encourage by example? Well, that's more like it, and if you look back over
the britpo archive you'll find that a few people have, from time to time,
been recording their enthusiasms here and there - it builds up. Everyone
who adds to that process is actually playing a part in building that
"vision" you ask for. It's not, I'd say, a question of linking Prynne or
any other one poet to "other serious British poetries" (henceforth SBPs) -
it's the far more basic task of mapping those poetries. Looking forward to
your contribution to that process -
RC
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