It would seem Timmo, if Poetry's submission policy is to be observed,
a) you shouldn't have submitted any poems that you had workshopped on line
b) they wouldn't have accepted any that you had workshopped on line.
However, as you acknowledge that the poems they have accepted wouldn't have been up to the standard if they hadn't been workshopped, one wonders what their objective is in maintaining what appears, on the surface at least , to be such a very restrictive stance?
One, which we are all, as is evident on other threads on this forum, going to great lengths to circumvent.
For the record I rather agree with the observation made elsewhere that the benefit conferred by the on-going conversation process inherent in workshopping outweighs the advantages of occasional publication. However, when one reads a copy of Poetry, one can't help but note how very few poems one recognises, ergo, not so many of the big guys or gals workship, it doth appear.
At least not on-line.
Last edited by Jim Hayes; 02-03-2009 at 04:49 PM.
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