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You’re welcome Gerard. I've also come across this interesting piece about academia and experimental poetry connections here: http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/The%20Academisation%20of%20Avant-Garde%20Poetry.htm ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gerard Greenway <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:00:51 +0000 Subject: Re: Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (Feb. 27, 2016) Thanks for those quotes. I'd better get that book. Gerard ------------------------------------------------------- From: David Lace <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, 23 November 2015, 17:37 Subject: Re: Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (Feb. 27, 2016) And another Cusp quote: “That “mission” fills me with dread and foreboding as it demonstrates the success of the theorists’ gambit to destroy the “author” and usurp the crown of creativity. I can see why some academics might endorse this, but to see poets buying into it is disheartening. Maybe it is a passing fashion but it is a fashion that is also infecting the art colleges. If there was any evidence that this love-in with theory was producing better poetry or visual art I’d be all for it but I don’t see that evidence anywhere.”