Thought I'd add that the latest issue of Perihelion (the only one of those
mentioned that I've looked at) "include[s] some of the people who are
helping to produce `Agnieszka's Dowry' and `The Periodic Table'" because
it's devoted entirely to work by book and periodical editors, with a heavy
leaning towards ezine editors. Along with Dancing Bear's poetry
arecontributions by a handful of active subscribers to this list, including
yours truly and Douglas Clark.
At 04:02 PM 2/11/99 GMT, Douglas Clark wrote:
>This doesnt seem to be going out on Poetry Etc so I will post it
>here. It demonstrates the neanderthal.
>
>from the NB column of the Times Literary Supplement, 12 February 1999,
>by J.C.
>
>The latest issue of `Poetry Review' contains a half-page of tips on
>where to go for poetry on the Internet, so, in our new enthusiasm for
>"literature for all", we decided to check it out. We began at `Agnieszka's
>Dowry' (www.enteract.com/~asgp/agnieszka.html). First up is a hint on
>how to pronounce "Agnieszka" - "uk-NYEZH-ka. Simple. Anyone can do it"
>- followed by a poem by Marek Lugowski, which babbles along in this
>fashion: "romeo void girl is english at its/ gurgliest like a brook cold on a
>hut hut hut late/ september sun day". As Marek is at the helm of
>`Agnieszka's Dowry', you know roughly what else to expect.
>
>At `The Periodic Table of Poetry' (n2o.com/elemental/), the intention
>is to find a poem for each of the elements. The poems are contributed
>by visitors to the site: "Copper" by Emily Therese Cloyd, for example,
>jingles along like this: "Its color is orange, or maybe red/ Until it
>changes to green, when to oxygen it is wed." That second line is only
>a whisper away from a classic McGonagall hobbled hexameter.
>
>Next we surfed to `Perihelion' (webdelsol.com/Perihelion), which is
>edited by "some of the people who are helping to define the Internet
>poetry community". These turn out to include some of the people who
>are helping to produce `Agnieszka's Dowry' and `The Periodic Table'
>(cyberspace is small, when you start to explore it). They include a
>poet called Dancing Bear, who contributes two poems to `Perihelion',
>one about ducks and another about herons. The latter asks what would
>happen if his soul entered a heron's body: "would it still hunger for
>fish/ or would it crave hamburgers".
>
>There is also a "discussion" area, in which several poets discuss the
>efect of the Internet on poetry in general. The participants seem unaware
>that their love of the Net comes out as a sublimated reading difficulty.
>One, "Kucinta", finds that "poetry on books seldom come with pictures,
>unlike web-published poetry. They make dull reading sometimes." Another
>web poet, "Karen", reckons that sometimes "the effect of reading a strong
>immediate poem on the web is amazing. It's not like sitting down with a
>book where there are codes of expectations." Karen believes that "we
>haven't even begun to explore the media of the web as a medium for
>poetry - poetry with links, options, sound, graphics." For Karen, the
>media is the medium.
>
> J.C.
>
>
>[I should add that a few issues ago there was a favourable review
>of `Jacket' and `The Richmond Review' by Hugh Kenner. And I believe
>J.C. to be Scottish from his previous references.]
>
>
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