At 29/10/98 15:08:35, Roger Day wrote:
# At 29/10/98 14:36:45, "K.M. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
# # Peter's absolutely right, it's the longer book that has no place to
go
# #
# # If people hereabouts were able to pile up some cash for a coordinated
# # project, I would be keen to be involved only if the books to be
# published
# # were pretty substantial - say 60pp.+
# #
# # there are many of these going brown
#
#
# Just to nail this down...a publication of between 60-100pp, right?
# Timescale...next year? Who looks after the kitty? Who gets to choose the
# poetry? What's the reason for choosing the poetry? What's the reason for
# the project in the first place? Do we need to get together and publish
# retrospectives of the long unheeded (as much as they might warrant it)?
#
# Come to think of it, an email list is a lousy place to get such a
venture
# underway; inconclusiveness being one of the problems assoiciated with
# email-lists. What might be an idea, is for someone - keston, say - to
talk
# to a _few_ people, see whats on the list - to come up with a plan, which
# the prospective money donors can look at, see who's willing to hand over
# some dosh, then start publishing or whatever.
Whoops. Just to apologise for these remarks...I posted _before_ RIC's wise
remarks. Somehow, it appeared after :(
I wasn't trying to teach egg grandmothers suck - but then, I didnt know who
was behind it...
Roger
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