Some women poet friends (well-known) have commented to me how a woman writer has to publish twice as much to get similar recognition a man enjoys, perhaps analogous point to one often made that women have to work twice as hard to get half as much.
Could it be (gulp, cringer, cower) because they're working harder? I suppose one could follow the thinking that THIS disparity isn't worth being concerned about. "One hopes it won't be the fault of women!)
Admittedly, I'm not keen on cricket but would take on anyone at pool. (Except someone like Jane, who I understand was a pro.) Hell, I'd play her too, to learn something. Love watching football (not the Yank kind), basketball, sports in general and baseball, which English friends who love cricket often claim they can't understand, which I find really funny. Can understand cricket and not baseball! Crinkle away, and grump about free verse. There's a lot of bad free verse around. But then again there's a lot of bad poetry around (grump, crinkle)
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