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Unread 10-27-2011, 12:42 PM
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Oh, I don't now. It's the chip on my shoulder keeps me writing just to show 'em.
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Unread 12-25-2011, 06:29 AM
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Two reviews in Stride Magazine:

here and here.

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Unread 12-25-2011, 06:57 AM
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Interesting discussion, so I've ordered the book.
Good of Roddy to pop in. He's a poet I admire.
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Unread 12-25-2011, 09:01 AM
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I bought the book, and I think it was very good. I meant to say so earlier, but it slipped my mind.
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Unread 12-27-2011, 01:05 PM
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I have ordered it too. Looking forward to receiving it.

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Unread 12-27-2011, 03:01 PM
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Read and liked it well myself. Kona Macphee seems interesting.
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Unread 12-27-2011, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Rory Waterman View Post
It seems to me that there are more good free verse poems being written than formal poems, though I find the splitting into two camps - us and them - depressing and inimical and, as it happens, more reductive than using the word 'Best' in the title of an anthology.
The thought ending in the comma has my total agreement; general agreement with the latter. Nothing more radical (in the formalista Sphere) has been stated about poems in years and years.

Just noticed that post--well said, Rory!

The problem is you have to plow through such numbers of poems, whether fv or form, to get to what's good--in most journals. Not all. Best to ignore the moronic rift and those who perpetrate it.

I have not seen a copy of Best British Poetry 2011, though I'd like to. Anyone have a copy they don't want and would trade for US journals? If so, pm me.

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Hi all

I received this book several days ago and have been reading through it. I was surprised first of all to find that the actual poetry is only 112 pages long, most of the rest of the book (pp. 115-155) taken up with contributors' comments and notes. I will be reviewing the book for Loch Raven Review but am so far less than impressed after looking forward to the book and expecting to be dazzled. I note that David Anthony has expressed a liking for Roddy Lumsden's poetry and I wonder if someone could point me to some examples of his work?

All the best

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Unread 01-06-2012, 08:19 AM
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Chris, a Google will give you a whole lot of links to Roddy's work.

As regards notes etc., that is par for the course. I have before me the Best of American 2007 in which the contributor notes etc. take up pages 121 to to 169. The actual poetry pages are 1 to 120. Before that we have a foreword and an introduction.

The BAP 2001 ditto has contributor pages, acknowledgements, etc.233 to 287.


BAP 1998 gives ditto pages at 283-332.

The Best of the Best American Poetry: 1988 to 1997 edited by Harold Bloom has those pages 303-383.

It should soon be time for the Best of the Best of the Best.
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Unread 01-06-2012, 08:31 AM
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Seeing as you mention the American "best of", Janice, here's a review of it I stumbled across.

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