On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:03:35 +0000, david wheatley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It's just bows and arrows in the long grass, David. I don't mind. And
perhaps these discussions - sorry, Peter, I know they bore you - are
necessary if an understanding is ever to be reached. It certainly won't be
reached without them, that's for sure. Though for some, an understanding is
a consummation devoutly to be avoided.
J.
>Is there not something almost McCarthyite about this thread? Why should
Jane Holland like what you or I like? Why should she have to give the time
of day in her magazine to writing she patently doesn't care for? If she was
editing Poetry Review, then perhaps we could argue about her duty to
represent a broad range of poetries etc, but she's not. I just don't get it.
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>DW
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