tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post3534391633907884126..comments2024-01-19T21:33:09.716+00:00Comments on E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK: Facebook Poets?EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-21411698591223122632011-05-23T07:00:07.560+01:002011-05-23T07:00:07.560+01:00Thank you for your valiant post on blogger,
For y...Thank you for your valiant post on blogger,<br /><br />For you<br />have touched<br />Much Faces <br />Many Few Favorites <br />Flow-ets of Facebook <br /><br />and with a rough slap <br />you gave to the crowd:<br />"mostly reps mediocre poetry"<br />it phases<br />it resents<br />it hates<br />Full-on lavishes, in spite of what it cannot to be.<br />The full expansiveness of "mediocre poetry."Nighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17612699485130261513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-3672770578478339092009-04-14T16:33:00.000+01:002009-04-14T16:33:00.000+01:00I can’t help being cynical at these press initiati...I can’t help being cynical at these press initiatives to herald the next “this” or “that” in poetry. This sounds to me like the similar hype we had with the New Generation poets in the 90s. Nothing came of it, with most of the poets who were lionized fading back into obscurity.Jeffrey Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16735826917584494107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-79521491124992296862009-04-14T14:25:00.000+01:002009-04-14T14:25:00.000+01:00Ah, tags -- what would journalism do without them?...Ah, tags -- what would journalism do without them? And of course "future historians" have the lovely task of qualifying them or dismissing them. Thus does the culture mill go round.Donald Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391024449222256377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-68438474968078058442009-04-14T12:05:00.000+01:002009-04-14T12:05:00.000+01:00ADVANCE READER COPY
COMMENT PUB. DATE: 09/09
Eyew...ADVANCE READER COPY<br />COMMENT PUB. DATE: 09/09<br /><br />Eyew, what do you mean "; few real poets post work online"? <br /><br />Do you mean, the article is implying some kind of *exodus* of the poetry to the INTERNET, a kind of renunciation of material existence? Whereas *really* the Net's significance is in fuelling and shaping what goes on in the material world -- increasing its energy and visibility, a population explosion and a diaspora, not an exodus?<br /><br />& do you mean that however well-intentioned, the hype is actually vaguely toxic, since it instead makes poetry seem like something youffs do up in their rooms when they should be studying for their GCSEs? & meanwhile Scary Facebook is humanised a touch, a nod to the doddery: "what are they getting up to?, bless them, they're trying to be the next Ted Hughes, NOT," (as we know is ACTUALLY the case) "Twittering tactics for the knitting of 10,000 semi-eviscerated paedophiles's back flesh into a 3D 'diddle-laager' which will simply ROLL invincibly across London city crushing its childrens' chastity, powered from within by teams of sportsweared chavs, listening to their music, like one of those hamster balls"? Even so this doesn't add up to "few real poets post work online." Many do, right?<br /><br />Also "typically shy of announcing their poetic proclivities to anyone?" ha ha haJo Lindsay Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-85774702824900020312009-04-14T11:20:00.000+01:002009-04-14T11:20:00.000+01:00agreed, a silly tag, especially as the article goe...agreed, a silly tag, especially as the article goes on to comment chirpily that at least one of the poets is not on Facebook.chantnoreply@blogger.com