Dear All,
It's been instructive being in touch with you for a short while. Unfortunately, 50+ e-mails a time is too much to keep up with so I am unsubscribing.
If you want to keep in touch personally, you have my e-mail address. My interests are:
exchanging poems (I'm not paranoiac about plagiarism);
info about mags and e-zines;
poetics;
translating;
and poets as commentators on their own work.
Although I believe poets have a marginal interest in things like philosophy, criticism and linguistics, I think we do best by gleaning what we need from these fields as we go along and as the need arises.
I found the recent strand comparing words to numbers, and the bit about the 'algebra' of poetry, both pretty fascinating. I have more than a passing interest in mathematics. But there is a limit. The important thing for poets (for this one at least) is to keep writing poetry. So reluctantly I sign off, perhaps to return when I have more time.
All the best,
Alan Marshfield.
