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This is quite funny because if you look at the list of poets in the anthology you can see why it's called Smartass and you can see why they are all blokes - so I think Rupert is being slightly disingenuous - 'all male by default', yes, certainly, but because of the conditional nature of that 'default'. I know that a couple of the contributers, at least, don't like the title and don't like the fact of it being all male. Anyway, good luck with the anthology Alec. Cheers Tim A. On 27 May 2011, at 10:23, Tony Frazer wrote: > Rupert Loydell is not on the list but he asked me to forward this > response to Carrie's question. > > Tony > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> hi carrie, >> im not on the list but tony fwded me yr comment about smartarse. >> >> it wasnt conceived as an all-male anthology, and several people >> suggested poets to be included. in the end they weren't doing what >> i envisaged the anthology to be about, so it did become all-male by >> default. >> >> it hasn't been presented as 'all-male' in the way women poet >> anthologies often are, so i don't see a problem unless people want >> to make one. >> >> but then they can do their own anthologies... >> >> best wishes >> rupert >>