Sheenagh isn't on the list any more - I've tried to persuade her to rejoin, but with no success so far. Maybe I'll try to talk Chris into it when he gets back from the States. He's just coedited a Welsh writing issue of the US magazine The Literary Review and is going there to promote it. Best wishes Matthew -----Original Message----- From: David Kennedy <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 14 February 2001 12:24 Subject: Re: Wales and Welsh Writing >Ho ho ho! :-) Well, they certainly share the same views, don't they. What >your colleague's posting seems to articulates is the classic view that the >Welsh are constantly misidentified by outsiders - my point is that they seem >to do that well enough on their own. I still want to know why the Welsh >don't value their own best writers. Isn't Sheenagh Pugh on the list - >perhaps she can tell us. Or perhaps your colleague could join in again - >I've no problem with that. >cheers >David > >-----Original Message----- >From: Matthew Francis <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >Date: 13 February 2001 22:04 >Subject: Re: Wales and Welsh Writing > > >>This will be a devastating blow when you reveal your proof that Chris >>Meredith and Amy Wack are the same person, David. Unfortunately you seem to >>have left that bit out. >> >>Best wishes >> >>Matthew >>-----Original Message----- >>From: David Kennedy <[log in to unmask]> >>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >>Date: 13 February 2001 11:10 >>Subject: Wales and Welsh Writing >> >> >>>" The insistence that the automatic comparison is with Ireland and >>Scotland >>>is a revealing one." >>> >>>Yeah, like, drrrrrrr, the very comparison made by Amy Wack in her intro to >>>the Seren antho of new poetry from Wales in both languages Oxygen... >>> >>>I give up. >>>cheers >>>David >>> >