Surely our criterion are a little more fluid than Dpuglas Clark suggests
- changing under the influence of different things read and experienced
- not just determined once and for all by gender, race, class etc. I'd
like to think I have a little more choice in building and designing my
own criteria for poems than merely choosing a set of rules to judge by
(mmm it's Friday, shall I choose the laddish criteria or the
post-feminist criteria, which goes with these shoes?) Otherwise I'd be
stuck with a set of inherited/imposed criteria and unable to change, or,
even grow.
On the original subject, a brief point.
When I edited SCRATCH magazine, we probably had a ratio of 6:1 male:
female in poets published but 12:1 in poems submitted. Yet: the
overwhelming majority of students in creative writing courses I've
taught have been women.Any suggestions why?
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Mark Robinson
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