Yes a fishbowl or fishbowel?? Look I will do a competition and give you all
joint first prize if that helps -
print poems why should anyone want to do that are we all so insecure needing
praise??we know that our work is brilliant (another glass of plonk?!!
P plonked P

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poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennifer Compton
Sent: 18 March 2007 18:50
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Subject: Re: Duemer's Contingency Rule for Poetry Contests

uk poetry is a fishbowl? but it is so big

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Subject: Re: Duemer's Contingency Rule for Poetry Contests
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:47:24 +0000

Yes, it's a good name. Sharp sand, otherwise known as builder's sand
is used for loosening clay soil.

http://gardens.com/terms/index.php?tid=805

I've never judged a poetry competition - and I don't want to - but it
seems to me that the judges must at least recognise  the style of most
of the entrants, particularly in the fish-bowl that is UK poetry. How
can judges not be influenced by this knowledge? Or am I being too
bitter and cynical?

Roger

On 3/18/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I'm with you on contests, Joe. And btw I love the name
>of your blog, though you could go one better and make
>it sound like a place name: Sharp Sand Flats.
>
>Hal
>
>"He's the kind of guy who can brighten
>   a room by leaving it."
>                 --Milton Berle
>
>Halvard Johnson
>================
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>
>On Mar 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>
> > Avoiding the work I should be doing, I wrote this last night
> > <http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/03/17/poetry-contest/>on my blog.
> > May be of
> > interest.
> >
> > jd
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
>


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