[New-Poetry] Big Bucks and Income from Sales of Plath's Work

[David Bircumshaw]

Occasionally the 'system', if that's the right word for it, forgets to 
keep the curtains closed and one obtains a partial view of what happens, 
whatever that is, as when the English Poetry Review 'discovered' Glyn 
Maxwell as an unemployed unknown in the sticks who wrote poetry, 
unconnected to any literary links,  and continually trumpeted the fact 
as an example of openness, an encouragement to all, the same Glyn 
Maxwell who was a prize pupil of Derek Walcott in the States and had 
just returned to the UK after having completed his studies under Walcott 
and others, his credentials a-ready.

One could get cynical but there's far worse fiddles beyond all this faddle.

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David Bircumshaw
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