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Yes, Tim, Michael, but isn't the salient point that it doesn't matter whether this poetry is read or heard or experienced or not: the economic point of poetry now is to have status of recognised poet - thereby qualifying you to teach, lecture, perform, give courses, workshops, hold residencies, receive grants, awards, judge competitions and if you're really lucky get a contract for a novel or a niche somewhere in broadcasting or a prominent online or magazine platform and winter holidays somewhere with a better climate than home??


On 2 July 2018 at 12:13, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Yep! Trying to work out the difference between those who know about stuff and those who pretend to know about stuff or sound as if they know about stuff is very difficult at the best of times but when people have letters after their name it makes it even more difficult because of cultural rules and perceptions.

Sorry haven't been posting much - too hot, too busy doing other stuff.

Cheers

Tim

On 2 Jul 2018, at 02:47, Luke wrote:

I don't think it should ever really matter that people are writing bad poetry. I suppose a worry is that the universities are churning out "experts" in poetry that aren't anything of the sort, and this encourages stupidity, not just in taste but in other matters

Luke


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