Hi Dave,
Yes, that's the point exactly. John and I aren't regarding this thread as a sort of preview of entries - I'm not even reading the poems now, only addressing comments such as yours. Thanks, btw.
Maryann kindly offered to run it as a workshop site if people wanted to get their poems looked at by the other spherians before they submit them. There's big money at stake after all. (I've cursed my haste on several occasions when I've already emailed a poem for a Speccie comp, say, then posted the poem on the thread and had some excellent tips on improving it - too late to use them!)
This thread is here simply to advertise the comp, too. We sincerely hope that lots of you will enter; we know the standard of work will be high. (As John mentioned, we know we'll get mountains of total crap as well; you always do.)
So whether people use the thread for workshopping or not doesn't matter - as long as they remember to enter. It'll get bumped up occasionally to jog the er... what's it called again?... oh yes, the memory.
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