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Do you need to 'believe' anyone? Poetry as a myriad of expressions with myriads of ways of apprehending it and I'm enjoying my snippet. Tilla Tilla Brading On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > this strangulated feeling people get because there are too many poets > and standards must be upheld etc... I mean natter way as much as you like > > That's not what I meant, am not trying to educate. I dislike e.g. like not > knowing who to believe, as it makes for more much more work. > > Luke > > > On 2 July 2018 at 12:55, Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> How quaint to see this business arising yet again, this strangulated >> feeling people get because there are too many poets and standards must be >> upheld etc. We are back in the 1930s. More pertinently I remember Eric >> Mottram going on about this at a Cambridge Poetry Festival late 1970s and >> Douglas Olive getting angry with him — if you believe in poetry how can >> you want to restrict its production? >> >> So if you’re on about this at present I offer to send to anyone who asks >> (backchannel) for it an essay, expanded version of a talk given in >> Huddersfield in May, called “What happened to poetry?” I can’t invite >> discussion about this - - it’s big (28pp) and important parts of its >> coverage are unsettled. I mean natter way as much as you like but I shall >> be in the cellar. >> >> PR >> >> >> >> >> On 2 Jul 2018, at 12:13 pm, Tim Allen <0000002899e7d020-dmarc-reques >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Yep! Trying to work out the difference between those who know about stuff >> and those who pretend to know about stuff or sound as if they know about >> stuff is very difficult at the best of times but when people have letters >> after their name it makes it even more difficult because of cultural rules >> and perceptions. >> >> Sorry haven't been posting much - too hot, too busy doing other stuff. >> >> Cheers >> >> Tim >> >> On 2 Jul 2018, at 02:47, Luke wrote: >> >> I don't think it should ever really matter that people are writing bad >> poetry. I suppose a worry is that the universities are churning out >> "experts" in poetry that aren't anything of the sort, and this encourages >> stupidity, not just in taste but in other matters >> >> Luke >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >> link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH- >> IRISH-POETS&A=1 >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >> link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH- >> IRISH-POETS&A=1 >> > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1