Hi Tim, winter, John et al.
Thank you all for the thoughts about
The Best British Poetry 2011 edited by Roddy Lumsden and also about the current British poetry scene. I am leaving for the UK tomorrow for two weeks and will seek out a copy while I am in Blighty.
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Originally Posted by Jayne Osborn
Anyway, the thought has just occurred to me, bringing the talk back to the original premise - i.e. this book - isn't it a bit early to name it like this? There's still a quarter of 2011 left yet!!!
There will be some brilliant poems written in the next three months, I'm sure.  |
Isn't the title of the book and the timing of its appearance a publisher's marketing decision? Sorry to bring up financial issues here among us artistes/craftsmen/aesthetes/bohemians but the publisher knows a book dated "2011" will probably sell well this year but might not do as well in 2012 when it might
appear dated with last year's date on the cover. Silly I know, but. . . .
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Originally Posted by Duncan Gillies MacLaurin
Hopkins was a Catholic, which in late Victorian England was synonymous with being an outsider.
Duncan
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More correctly, Gerard Manley Hopkins was a convert to Catholicism. Maybe as a writer and a priest he
liked being an outsider.
Cheers
Chris
