I just realised that yes I thought it was a more recent one.
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:32:17 -0000, Geraldine Monk
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>In any case this is a very old review written almost as soon as the
book was out. I wonder David (hello) if you are misreading 2001 for
2010?
>G.
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> In fact there's a mention of it at the end of Tuma's intro to the
Anthology itself.
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> On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:06 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> Yes, Cris, that's it ...
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> On 1 February 2010 20:03, cris cheek <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi David,
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> that is my understanding of what happened too. In fact i
remember being told that there had been extensive correspondence
trying to persuade Jeremy to have his work represented but that Jeremy
had said (at that time) that he was tired of anthologies . . . or
something along those lines.
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> On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:54 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> I might be wrong on this, but I vaguely recall Keith Tuma (then
on this list) saying that Prynne declined an invitation for inclusion.
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> On 1 February 2010 14:26, David Lace <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Provocative Amazon customer review of Keith Tuma's
Anthology of
> Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Paperback)
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> "This isn't "critical pluralism". It's an attempt to canonize a
postmodern
> clique by juxtaposing their work with the likes of Seamus
Heaney.
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> Moreover, it isn't even a believeable anthology from a
postmodern
> standpoint. Where's J. H. Prynne? Excluding him is like leaving
John
> Ashbery out of an anthology of modern American poetry."
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> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthology-Twentieth-Century-British-
Irish-
> Poetry/dp/019512894X
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