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there?Good to hear from you again by the way.Jamie McKendrickJaime not Jamie-but I see it’s just a typo.Tim AllenSorry. Yes a typo. Sorry Jaime Sorry Jamie.Jeffrey SideThanks Philip. I’ll check that link out.I didn’t realise you were in Japan. Do you know Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, by any chance? She’s an American poet whohas lived in Japan for many years. She’s written a few articles for me, and I’ve published, as an ebook, a monographshe wrote.Philip RowlandHi Jeffrey-yes, I know Jane Joritz-Nakagawa-not very well, but we’ve met at events now and again, and readtogether in Kyoto several years ago. I think she has an anthology of poetry by expatriate women poets coming outsoon.Another Japan-based poet (and translator of modernist and avant-garde Japanese poetry) you might find interestingis Eric Selland: seehttp://isobarpress.com/?page_id=161where there’s also a link to a conversation between him and Jane, from 2012.Incidentally, having mentioned The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we think, read and remember(2010) earlier in this thread, and now dug it out, here’s a paragraph which sums up the author’s view on the Kindle:‘When a printed book - whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old novel-istransferred to an electronic device connected to the Internet, it turns into something very like a Web site. Its wordsbecome wrapped in all the distractions of the networked computer. Its links and other digital enhancements propelthe reader hither and yon. It loses what the late John Updike called its ‘edges’ and dissolves into the vast, roilingwaters of the Net. The linearity of the printed book is shattered, along with the calm attentiveness it encourages inthe reader. The high-tech features of devices like the Kindle and Apple’s new iPad may make it more likely that we’llread e-books, but the way we read them will be very different from the way we read printed editions’.Jeffrey SidePhilip thanks for that link. It looks interesting.I heard Jane was not well. I emailed her yesterday to see how she was, but have had no reply. I hope she is ok.Thanks for the quote from the book. I can see how such a reading experience could occur with some presentations ofebooks. Some could, indeed, be designed to be like websites etc. At the level I operate on, though, my ebooks arepresented in a PDF format, so look exactly like printed books.I think that an ebook’s presentation largely depends on the device you are reading it on. Some people read ebooks ontheir mobile phones. In such cases, an ePub format is more suitable than a PDF format, because mobile phones have asmaller screen (or reading area) than bespoke reading devices such as an iPad or kindle. The ePub format is not an120
ideal way to view poetry though, at least not to my taste. But I realise that we live in an age where technology rules,and so I will start converting my ebooks to an ePub format-or to be more accurate, offer both an ePub and a PDFversion of them.I don’t know how much longer the ePub format will last, though, as mobile phone screens are getting larger andmore suited to a PDF format.[The discussion ended at this point]A discussion in the British and Irish Poets Listserve about where poetry sits in relation to academia, and viceversaLuke LemmettDecember 2017 to January 2018Where does poetry sit in relation to academia, or vice versa? Obviously, it’s difficult to make a living from it withoutbeing an academic, and that there’s no point in snobbery.I hope the question is not too broad, I have little experience of these things. I mean sitting a PhD sounds kinda fun,and very motivating, but far too expensive, especially.Jamie McKendrickAuden suggested learning a trade to keep as far from academia as possible. I took that seriously and worked as aplasterer through my twenties. Not really complaining but if I’d kept on I’d be earning nearly 7 or 8 times what I donow as a translator.Luke LemmettIs there a poetry underground outside academia? I mean, I think there isDon’t get me wrong, I’m not anti academia, though I’ve known a couple of punks who seemed to be. I’d just bereassured, if the “underground” didn’t reduce to the authority of academia. Not just for me!Jeffrey SideLuke, you might find this interesting regarding the “underground” aspect:http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/The%20Academisation%20of%20Avant-Garde%20Poetry.htmAnd Tim Allen’s response to it:http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Allen%20essay.htmLuke LemmettThanks.I supposed the original article by Berry [referring to Jake Berry’s article that was part of the feature about academicpoetry at The Argotist Online, that was linked to in the first link in Jeffrey Side’s comment] was going the otherdirection, that academic sanctioning isn’t necessary, rather than sufficient. The latter seems difficult to take seriously,at least deliberately so. I mean I’ll never be part of any academy, but then for similar reasons I won’t be entirely“knowing” either, so probably more useful to think about how opposition to an ‘otherstream’ impinges on theacademy itself.121
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