[New-Poetry] vacancy for a Junior Lecturer in English Studies

[Halvard Johnson]

Vagrancy for Junior Lecturers in English Studies

Hal

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On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:36 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:

> Hi Anny, Suzanne etc
>
> reality check, I subsist on just over 300 pounds a month, often ,  
> if it wasn't for my friends, I would go without food, I haven't got  
> any argument with you Anny, you're a good poet and do great work to  
> support other poets, ok?, but the cultural situation we live in is  
> a nightmare, and I don't believe in accepting it.
> this morning I had to see my little vicky trembling with fear  
> because of this exploitative tosser - that is never going to happen  
> again - her whole body was shaking from top to toe. Pace my dear  
> Rob, I didn't misread the amount, was delighted tonight to meet my  
> Russian mate Eugene's wife Olga, he's been working as a researcher  
> at De Montfort Uni for the last 5 years but is only now he could  
> afford to bring her over
>
> Ramble, ramble
>
> Care
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anny Ballardini
> To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] vacancy for a Junior Lecturer in English  
> Studies
>
> This message was sent to me and I thought it would be of interest  
> to someone on this list. The times are what they are Dave, and I do  
> wish you will find a good job able to support you and to pay you  
> back of all what you have done. Society as a whole is not just,  
> within this unjustice I am happy when one of my cultural group  
> finds a better position or better opportunities. I therefore agree  
> with Suzanne's and Mill's comments.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Suzanne Burns
> To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] vacancy for a Junior Lecturer in English  
> Studies
>
>
>
> On 8/2/06, millb at aol.com <millb at aol.com> wrote:
> This salary seems in line with the ranges that I have seen.  Our  
> neice just got hired for a junior tenure track position at Sarah  
> Lawrence and her offer was $40,000.
>
>
> Which in this economy (and especially given where she will have to  
> live) is a very, very modest salary.  (Btw, Limerick is also now a  
> fairly expensive place to live-- the days of living in Ireland on a  
> shestring are past.  At the risk of sounding like a bad, bad hippy,  
> the Irish are generally happy with this development.)
>
> It takes a very long time to get a Ph.D, and those junior positions  
> are hard work.  Add in the pressures of achieving tenure (or  
> figuring out what the hell you will do if you don't get tenure) and  
> I would say any offer lower than this would be outrageous.
>
> I really would love to know where people got this idea that  
> writers, scholars, poets, etc.  somehow should be required to live  
> outside of reality.  It sort of goes with that idea that scholars  
> have lots and lots of leisure time. Please.
>
> Suzanne Burns
>
>
>
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