tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post7610443400522696826..comments2023-11-03T15:50:56.001+01:00Comments on POET IN RESIDENCE : Is Seamus Heaney the most expensive poet?Gwil Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-357376388406709702008-02-25T07:41:00.000+01:002008-02-25T07:41:00.000+01:00Hi Robert, I should have pointed out, if I failed ...Hi Robert, I should have pointed out, if I failed to, that the District & Circle I speak about is a paperback. Hardback price maybe!Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-91517037171780900572008-02-25T04:35:00.000+01:002008-02-25T04:35:00.000+01:00Though I am generally suspicious of slim, hard-bou...Though I am generally suspicious of slim, hard-bound volumes put out by poets after much success, I am still looking forward to /District And Circle/, despite the printer's math. Kinnell's slim hardbound left me cold; but Hass's proves he's still got it. Hopefully Heaney also falls in the latter camp. We'll see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-48989683482201500342008-02-22T09:21:00.000+01:002008-02-22T09:21:00.000+01:00The most recent poetry book that P-i-R has had the...The most recent poetry book that P-i-R has had the pleasure of reviewing iss 'In the beginning was the song' by Glenys Jones ISBN 978 1905886 975 pub. 2007 by Matador (Troubador imprint). This book is comparable in length and quality to Seamus Heaney's book. It may be even better quality for it has a glossy cover, slightly larger pages and contains 2 photograps. The book is priced at two pounds less, more than 25% less, than Heaney's. So what's going on?<BR/>As far as P-i-R's poetry credentials are concerned, since the matter has been raised, his latest poem 'Haircut' has been accepted by Pulsar and should appear in the next issue - due out in March. Why not send for a copy and judge for yourselves?Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-63077783712909385322008-02-22T07:16:00.000+01:002008-02-22T07:16:00.000+01:00Hello ms baroque and welcome. I'll take your quest...Hello ms baroque and welcome. <BR/>I'll take your questions in the order you asked them. <BR/>Q.1 - Like many others, I was expecting something new from a poet of Heaney's class -a Nobel Prize winner! This book was not A 'Collected Works' or a 'Selected Works' but a slim volume. <BR/>Q. 2 - I have lots of magazines - much more than 20 - and I subscribe to several - iota, poetry monthly, pulsar, poetry salzburg review and others - I also buy photocopied poetry sold in single sheets and chapbooks by student poets in cafes. <BR/>Q. 3 - I send to magazines on a very irregular basis. About 50% of what I send to magazines in published. <BR/>Q. 4 - Yes and No - it really depends on the quality of the poems...and if I have 'moved on' poetic-wise in the intervening 3 years - in which case probably, Yes I won't. <BR/>Q - 5, Yes, I read a lot<BR/>of 'current stuff'. I also review poetry magazines and journals. There are many 'current stuff' poets on P-i-R - people like R K Singh, Geoff Stevens, Michael Newman, David Pike etc. You can't get much more 'current' than that.<BR/><BR/>Your interest is very much appreciated and I hope you stay with us and enjoy the rest of the blog. There's much of interest.<BR/><BR/>For a defintion of what I 'claim to be' and the 'Raison d'etre' for P-i-R, the definition of what's going on here if you like, please see the top of the page.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-80963366025802528492008-02-22T03:40:00.000+01:002008-02-22T03:40:00.000+01:00What, you don't want to buy a book containing poem...What, you don't want to buy a book containing poems that were published in magazines? Are they secondhand now, or something? Do you already own the 20 magazines? Putting things in magazines prior to book publication is in any case standard practice, and always has been, certainly in our lifetimes. Don't you send to magazines? <BR/><BR/>And if your ms was then accepted by a publisher, would you really leave out anything that had appeared, say, three years earlier in a small mag?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I'd part with with 12p for a poem. It seems cheap.<BR/><BR/>If you'll pardon my saying, P-i-R, you seem rather unused to what poetry books are <I>like</I>, for someone who claims to be a poet... do you not read much current stuff?Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.com