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DavidFloyd @ 12-11-09 13:00
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Jaybird @ 12-7-09 11:44
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Matt @ 12-4-09 13:55
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 Closed to Submissions |
| Posted by R Lumsden - 12-8-09 17:00 - 24 comments |
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I've recently been teaching a course on publishing a pamphlet for The Poetry School. As part of this, class members and myself have been investigating the list of presses published by The Poetry Library. It seems the majority of small presses are currently in a state of not considering any submissions, for pamphlets or books. It's the same with some bigger independent presses too.
Some have overstretched themselves and have a backlog, or have already chosen their new poets f ...read more |
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| Hand + Star |
| Posted by Tom Chivers - 12-7-09 17:13 - 4 comments |
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Hi everyone (Jane - sorry if this is in the wrong place)
Some of you may have already spotted this, but today I officially launched the new online literary review Hand + Star
http://www.handandstar.co.uk
I'd really appreciate it if you paid a visit, left a comment or two, and spread the word to your friends.
The context to this project is the diminishing space for reviews of poetry and non ...read more |
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| Diaries |
| Posted by Matt - 12-3-09 13:11 - 3 comments |
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I've been thinking for a while about keeping a diary next year. I kept one pretty religiously for about five years when I was a teenager (needless to say they're painfully hilarious reading now) but then gave up, but I thought it might be a good idea as a way of storing stuff that later comes in useful in poems. Obviously I already keep various poetry notebooks, but I suppose they tend to get used when I'm consciously thinking about poetry, whereas I thought this might be a better w ...read more |
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| If Poets Were Footballs Teams |
| Posted by David Wheatley - 12-2-09 23:42 - 5 comments |
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If poets were football teams (or their managers), which poet would be who?
Manchester United -- sour Scottish git, mumbling away incomprehensibly to himself, everyone else unfathomably terrified of him...
Hull City -- comedy northerner, has inexplilcably broken into the big time, everyone else silently hoping he'll go away soon, likes to refer to himself in the third person...
Sorry, these are descriptions of football teams, not poets (really), but perhaps ...read more |
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| Poems about Museums |
| Posted by meryl - 12-2-09 13:28 - 28 comments |
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A request from a non-poetic friend. Are there any poems about Museums out there? I reassured her there were, but could only come up with:
Peter Redgrove, Into the Rothko Installation
W H Auden Musee des Beaux Arts
Louis MacNeice, The British Museum Reading Room
There must be more, surely. And...have you written any? Happy to pass on details... 
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| Reading Rates |
| Posted by David Wheatley - 12-1-09 20:52 - 40 comments |
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What is the standard (minimum standard) going rate for a reading these days? I have a memory of a page on the Poetry Society site offering guidelines on this, but can't find any sign of it now. Any advice on this topic would be welcome.
The maximum standard going rate would be interesting to learn too, of course. Like everyone else I've heard the tales of what various American poets charge, with some of the highest fees allegedly going to people I would consider soporific rea ...read more |
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| Blindspots |
| Posted by TimLove - 11-29-09 10:59 - 31 comments |
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Here are some jottings that I'm trying to put into shape.
"I don't like it" vs "I don't get it"
Can the distinction be made? Sometimes surely, but it depends on the context.- Social situation - In the tutor/pupil situation perhaps it's easier for the tutor to say "I don't like it" and the pupil to say "I don't get it". In judges' reports you might not often see lines quoted that the judge admits to ...read more
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