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>Don't laugh, Peter. Is it that the poet is a woman, is 91, is an ex-teacher, >that's funny? Or that she is from Buckinghamshire? With the >exception of the Buckinghamshire bit, which is admittedly hilarious, I'd >like something similar to be written about me, in about 50 years. >Or maybe it's United Press that's funny and I just don't get it because >of cultural distance and a personal inability to consider publishers >as other than tragic. >Mairead > I don't actually find any of it amusing, except the word Champion, but if anything rather sad.It's some kind of market, some profit-making exercise, concealed behind a lot of hype, and rather sadly people are taken in by it, and believe that real experts have recognised their worth. It goes on everywhere: poetry competitions, awards, magazine editing, invitations to avant-garde conferences..... /Peter %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%