Like John, I don't really see a problem with the two lists. To start with
there's bound to be a bit of flavour blur, and I guess there will always
be some duplication - that's what the delete button's for, no? But I bet
that in a few months they've settled down into related-but-different
niches.
The British-poets list (full name British and Irish Poets, but that
doesn't fit the mailbase format) has a pretty clear scope statement on its
home page: "Discussion and news list for practitioners of current poetry
and poetics, with emphasis on recent postmodern and innovative poetries in
Britain and Ireland." The British n Irish bit is non-exclusive, and we've
benefitted tremendously from the input of listmembers in Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, USA, South America and "mainland Europe" as the UK
Eurosceptics so engagingly call it. If someone wants to discuss
non-innovative poetries, well, I hope they'll make their own list for it.
For further information, including searchable archives, list of members,
and how to join (it's open, and free, and you're welcome), try the website
at:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/british-poets/
PoetryEtc seems great to me, and has, I think, a different flavour
already. It's hardly surprising that some britpo members (Peter Riley
amongst them) up and joined it, since the list owner, John Kinsella (also
a britpo member) invited the list to do so. It hardly constitutes a
"take-over", for heavens' sakes. Let 'em all thrive, sez I.
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Richard Caddel
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"Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write."
- Basil Bunting
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