I can live with bad manners, OK, happens all the time - I just don't like
it passed off as "trying to be honest". I re-read some of Duncan's
criticism (in the latest Angel Exhaust) last night and Peter's description
of it seems very largely accurate to me. And disappointingly, Duncan's
espousing of parts of "that other of the two wings of poetry" (? I was
hoping there were loads more than two wings) seems - to me - to be just
cranky, no better argued or presented than anything else he asserts. Yes,
as Doug says, ultimately these are just pinpricks, though I can't imagine
Andrew being pleased to have them dismissed so.
As I said, I agree with Doug about the poetry though, about its "jump out
from the pageness": that some of its power comes from the same
bile-ladened spring as the criticism seems very likely to me, but it works
better in the poetry for me - I can ride over all the glitches which
Karlien touches on, carried along on the rush of it all. That counts for a
lot more.
You wanna talk about Etruscan Readers, Doug, please do so. I've tried to
encourage Nick to get on the list and plug them himself. But then, my
efforts to encourage folk aboard haven't been an unqualified success...
every time a list member says, why don't women join / contribute to this
list more, I have a go at a few more people, but little seems to change -
of the 295 messages in the archive for this month, there are 7 from women.
I don't know what to do about it, but I remain open to ideas. It seems
especially worth pursuing in that the 7 were bang on target, whereas there
was a proportion of the 288 which was, frankly, pretty waffly. OSISTM...
RC
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