Tuesday
Dec042007
Atlas Shrugged
Tuesday 4 December, 2007
'Is everything great? how great is everything? Survey on resentment
Angel Exhaust publishes only good poetry - and so obscures the ghastly truth about the poetry scene in which almost everyone is Deeply Irritated most of the time. In issue 20, we intend to redress the balance by covering the Dark Stuff. In the cause of public health, AE is gathering survey material on What is Really Wrong with This Great Scene of Ours.
What is wrong with the poetry scene? what irritates you most about it? down-dumbed cultural managers acting up? idiotic sociological theories? a Jurassic machine park of obsolete techniques? fundamentalist progress theories? space cadet spam surges? Donny Osmond figures who think they’re Rimbaud? pious veneration of paranoid Dead Masters? enthusiastic hops of Anglican shamanism? Would the poetry world be different if the 500 most unpleasant people inside it were somewhere outside it, say on Venus? Should the song change from time to time?
This is your invitation to participate in a special Angel Exhaust survey on the failings of the scene.
We expect the most rigorous objectivity. Only malice can free you from rage.
Reply in 10-500 words and in total confidence to aduncan@pinko.org. Please indicate if you wish your views to remain anonymous. Deadline is 15 January 2008. Results will be published in issue 20.'
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Angel Exhaust publishes only good poetry - and so obscures the ghastly truth about the poetry scene in which almost everyone is Deeply Irritated most of the time. In issue 20, we intend to redress the balance by covering the Dark Stuff. In the cause of public health, AE is gathering survey material on What is Really Wrong with This Great Scene of Ours.
What is wrong with the poetry scene? what irritates you most about it? down-dumbed cultural managers acting up? idiotic sociological theories? a Jurassic machine park of obsolete techniques? fundamentalist progress theories? space cadet spam surges? Donny Osmond figures who think they’re Rimbaud? pious veneration of paranoid Dead Masters? enthusiastic hops of Anglican shamanism? Would the poetry world be different if the 500 most unpleasant people inside it were somewhere outside it, say on Venus? Should the song change from time to time?
This is your invitation to participate in a special Angel Exhaust survey on the failings of the scene.
We expect the most rigorous objectivity. Only malice can free you from rage.
Reply in 10-500 words and in total confidence to aduncan@pinko.org. Please indicate if you wish your views to remain anonymous. Deadline is 15 January 2008. Results will be published in issue 20.'
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