On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, David Kennedy wrote:
> Yes, thanks very much Ric for appointing me as copyright administrator of
> the collaborative poem! But I accept and please everybody get writing. I'd
> not thought about publication and would suggest that we all see how it
> progresses in terms of quality and quantity. And anyway can't it just be a
> kind of fun research thing or a collective on-line performance?
- Yes, let's leave publication till it wants to be published (see question
on "completion"). Anyway, what happened to the collaborative poem? If I
were the last person to contribute to it I'd worry what I'd done to it...
My ideal scenario for the poem is that it starts to split (first typing:
spit: that too of course) at some stage, with two or more versions doing
the rounds and folk adding to different threads at different points: like
a multiple organic conga. My fear is that for all the evident expertise
out there, Britpos Don't Play: it would be a staggering reinforcement of a
stereotype were this true.
RC
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