To explain the Faulty Towers analogy by saying the content is looking increasingly out of date is calling a rose a rose. Yes I know there are many topics and things going on in poetry that are not addressed or referred to here and I presume that is because those people are not on the list - a list is only what it is because of those who are on it who wish to contribute. I wouldn't argue with the fact that there is a lot more going on out there than you would know about by looking at this list. There are a lot of younger poets currently active that I find really interesting and read and see when I can but I would be the first to admIt that I am not in the loop in the same way as I was 10 years ago. I don't see how anybody here can help being who they are and how old they are. Or maybe we could accuse someone of being agist - I'm not being funny. 

OK, on the issue of stuff which doesn't crop up here (most times nothing crops up here but no matter for the moment) - recently following some of the Kate Tempest thread exchanges Peter Riley said "There is also a more serious or even intellectual niveau of performance poetry, tho whether these qualities are there on the stage or extrapolated by theorists after the event I don't know". There wasn't any reply. I know that most of the younger people involved in the more, what can I call it? post-Dartington performative (how's that?) are not on this list, or if they are they don't say so. I wish they were though. I recently took the example of the issue of Kate Tempest that arose on Facebook and pointed out how the issue could not be developed on that particular forum. To me both Twitter and Facebook, as far as discussion is involved, are only suitable for fawning or insulting. There is a lack of discussion about poetry across the board - not healthy.

Cheers

Tim