David, sorry. I'll not do it next time
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:23:46 +0100, David Bircumshaw
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>Jeffrey
>
>this isn't an attack but if you are going to keep sending identical
posts to
>different lists could you at least vary the titles because it becomes
very
>confusing otherwise.
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>2009/10/11 Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Intemperate comment by Jane Holland:
>>
>>
>> "As an editor, I am open to most things, including this ... type of
work.
>> As an editor, I have to be open to it, otherwise I wouldn't be doing
my
>> job properly. But as a poet myself, and as a reader/listener, I have
no
>> problems in saying that I dislike it intensely.
>>
>> It makes me suspect utter charlatanism, because it provides no
stable
>> ground from which to form a measured opinion. Listening to it and
>> trying to 1. make sense of it and 2. work out whether it's worth my
time
>> is like trying to get a spirit level to balance on the wing of a tilting
>> airplane at high altitude. If I was going out for an evening of idle
>> entertainment, and this only lasted 3 minutes, I might find it
amusing
>> and exhilarating. But to be asked to look on it as 'serious art' and on
>> Keston himself as some kind of Messiah of Poetry makes everything
>> inside me rebel.
>>
>> Re Fiona's remark, I can't particularly criticise her decision to exclude
>> that kind of work. I'm reviewing the PR book for Stride, so I won't
say
>> much here, but it is a book aimed at the mainstream reader, just as
>> Poetry Review, frankly, is aimed at the mainstream reader. (Except
for
>> brief periods of its history, when the red flag was flying above Poetry
>> HQ!!!) If Angel Exhaust put out, as an example - and maybe it has, I
>> can't recall now - an anthology of its best bits, you can be pretty
sure
>> you wouldn't find the likes of Seamus Heaney in there."
>>
>>
>> http://z11.invisionfree.com/Poets_On_Fire/index.php?
>> showtopic=1701&st=0&
>>
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