So it looks that Prynne made a wise move in not being included in it.
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:53:01 +0000, Peter Riley
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>JHP circulated a letter to a senior editor at OUP (NY) at the time,
>explaining his reasons for not wishing to be in the anthology. He
>spoke first of his dislike of educational anthologies as such,
>"because of the enrollment of a poet's work into a teaching
>apparatus" [i.e., a programmed presentation] which "must interfere
>with a vital aspect of personally free reading and discovery...."
>He went on:
>
>"But overriding each and every such consideration in this case is the
>aspect that this book is to be published by Oxford University Press. I
>know very well that the American branch of this imprint is virtually
>an independent operation, but it carries and trades under an
>illustrious name. That name must now in the field of contemporary
>British poetry and its publication by considered infamous."....
>
>PR
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>On 2 Feb 2010, at 09:26, GILES GOODLAND wrote:
>
>I very much doubt that can be true. I have been in meetings with
>senior OUP staff who have never even heard of Bloodaxe or Carcanet.
>Whether Prynne appeared in an anthology or not, would not appear on
>their radar--a fact which I am sure Prynne would foresee.
>
>From: John Goodby <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Tuesday, 2 February, 2010 9:19:56
>Subject: Re: Provocative Amazon customer review of Keith Tuma's
>Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
>
>Wasn't Jeremy Prynne's refusal to be included something to do with
the
>fact that Oxford UP, the publishers of the anthology, had recently
>abolished their poetry list en bloc? I was under the impression that
>it was a protest against their act of vandalism.
>
>All best,
>
>JOhn
>---- Geraldine Monk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: cris cheek
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 10:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: Provocative Amazon customer review of Keith Tuma's
>Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
> >
> >
> > In fact there's a mention of it at the end of Tuma's intro to the
>Anthology itself.
> >
> >
> > xx
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> > cris
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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,
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > xxx
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> > cris
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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.
> >
> >
> > On 1 February 2010 14:26, David Lace <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> >
> > Provocative Amazon customer review of Keith Tuma's
>Anthology of
> > Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Paperback)
> >
> >
> > Quote:
> >
> > "This isn't "critical pluralism". It's an attempt to
>canonize a postmodern
> > clique by juxtaposing their work with the likes of Seamus
>Heaney.
> >
> > 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."
> >
> >
> > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthology-Twentieth-Century-
British-Irish-
> > Poetry/dp/019512894X
> >
> >
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> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
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> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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