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Tim, are you sure you don't have a poem hidden in there somewhere yourself? And this isn't just a ploy to get us to buy the anthology just to see what all the fuss is about?

BTW, I didn't even get offered a complimentary copy by Salt, even though a poem was taken from my mag, although Giles was kind enough to send me his spare copy!

Ian
 

 
 
 
  
 
 

From: Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Review of Salt's "The Best British Poetry 2011"

Phew, thanks for that cris, I was beginning to think I really had committed myself to writing the poem. By the way, I was joking with my 'complicated' comment to Giles, because the situation was funny, then even funnier when Ian said it was a Shadowtrain poem. I am definitely going to read the anthology now given the chance, but I don't think I'll buy it.

Cheers

Tim A.
 
On 10 Mar 2012, at 22:46, cris cheek wrote:

a Confessional : for Tim ;=) with love,


I am not that fiend in the picture but I do like to preach
In the hedges the thorns on my corrected hoodoo perch
Open my eyes to play flushed objections with Roddy
Community begins community ends in niche immunity
 
This bird is an avatar was a fish has been a mishap
A mashup of what in the counter post voiced justified
By the free beer area a musical literalist off the map
The gilded away arena where the bandicoots idea fried  
 
Totally audio and lubricated rhymes in the dining car
Assembling a ticket to eclecticism not on roddy’s radar


xx

cc


On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:30 PM, cris cheek wrote:

hey David,

that companion is still in the works . . robert hampson and i have been doing a transatlantic dance on it since for ever and it's still on its way . .


cc



On Mar 10, 2012, at 4:13 PM, David Lace wrote:

Sorry, Cris, if I implied you were published as a poet by Salt, I was alluding to your having edited “The Salt Companion to Allen Fisher”.



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hehe . whatever . protesteth about what exactly? i want to read that poem called Not On Roddy's Radar . .

i'm not protesting at all . . except at yet another round of pedantic verge-tending . . not so much on your part per se Tim . . as on the part of those moaning that they thought Salt might not be a-g any more . . it has been muttered here very recently ;=)

i'm not a Salt author and Chris did turn me down as unmarketable a few years ago having asked for a m/s . . i have no investment . in fact based upon that xp i might have been expected to poo poo them but i don't and i'm not

i wish nothing but more presses and more magazines and more e-zines and more collections for brit-po . . more reading series et cetera; more people putting energy and time and even money into promoting diversities of approaches

yes i agree Tim eclecticism is positive . i just find the sniping and the moaning (a more general trait on both sides) boring and boorish when there are such better things to spend all of our time on and having made the tone all lumpy i'll shut up and let others put Salt onto the open sores . erm, for a change


cris