Jamie, thanks for your fuller reasoning on that matter. My apologies for saying “crap”. I won’t in future.
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Jamie McKendrick wrote:
Just a brief remark, David. I have raised this issue several times on the list, and not just with you. Clearly to no avail. So it really should be considered an impersonal point. I'm not getting at you in particular or anyone else. You should be able to understand this, as you've criticised other posters for being 'subjective'. There is obviously no crime in 'simply' not liking Muldoon's poetry or McNeish's or Prynne's poetry for that matter. But dismissing any of them as 'crap' gets a discussion nowhere. If, as Luke suggested, you were to say 'I don't like Muldoon's poetry because...' there might be something for others to engage with. This is a discussion group about poetry, not just an opportunity to slag off poets whose work we don't happen to like. A list owner came on about a year ago to remind us that the list "was created in order to promote the healthy, rigorous and POSITIVE discussion of British contemporary poetry". Well, a discussion of poetry isn't necessarily healthy, nor is it obliged to be 'positive', nor does it have to be promotional but it surely shouldn't just be a dognmatic statement of personal taste or distaste.Jami
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