"I'd like to know more about the motivation" - Maryann
All I know is that they say "we need to have a public framework against which the judgements we make about which living writers we should devote most attention to can be justified". I guess they couldn't get away with merely reading the poets' work.
I think docs like this can be useful to [budding] poets who don't know how the poetry biz works. And for poets who want to be read there are reminders that there's more to it than writing poems. For UK/Welsh people it gives a list of mags worth submitting to.
"... the explosion in the number of magazines, and the expanding number of little publishers, self-publishers, and e-pubs." - these aren't easy to assess though, partly because longevity is a factor in their significance. Some worthwhile e-pubs have already disappeared.
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