On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:07:58 +0000, you wrote:
>just today or yesterday, as for many here, a position paper from the Arts
>Council of England ('The Policy for Poetry of the English Arts Funding
>System') dropped onto the doormat...
>But I am curious as to how many others here might begin to share this sense
>of unease at such an officiating policy. Is the configurement of opposional
>practices merely surrogate denial of such obviously not wholly
>reprehensible aims as ACE outlines? Or can a more discursive set of
>parameters be mobilised?
- sense of unease shared here, cris, but no shock or surprise... I
feel almost ashamed that when the "consultation process" was taking
place I duly barked and ran for the stick they threw, whizzing off
multipage responses (fairly measured ones, I promise) to regional and
national "debates" (one way process, no response). It's consultation,
Jim, but not as we know it. And the resulting ACE vision of poetry is
also of a one-way process, here's the product, rip open the packet and
swallow whole: does this surprise?
I did not, never did, honest, set out to be oppositional or "Other".
Those of us who find ourselves there do so, I think, more often than
not, simply because of the centralist refusal to acknowledge the
presence of things other than itself. The "vision" of the ACE document
certainly does nothing to change that. Hrmph.
RC
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