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Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett
I've done my share of lamenting the dearth of form in this sort of anthology. But I think we benefit from paying attention to the full range of work that gets published and not sounding as though we don't like anything that doesn't mete and rhyme.
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I can respect this call for moderation, Maryann, but I find myself strongly disagreeing with you. Our protests at the domination of FV will perhaps be seen by some as merely self-serving, but that should not make us hesitate to protest. Dim anthologies like this one are a
insert-a-particularly-foul-swearword-here outrage! I like a lot of FV, but as a staple diet it gets very, very dull. We're not doing FV any favours by tolerating its unjustified predominance.
We've recently seen a fair bit of campaigning for women being fairly represented in the poetry world. Surely it's soon time for us to crawl out from our bunkers and assert the rights of metricists and rhymists!
Duncan