tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post4415647004579650176..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: PBS: Halleluyah! It's a gold!George Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-26553679332094344952011-04-06T23:00:43.584+01:002011-04-06T23:00:43.584+01:00"Haiku, haiku, it's off to Riot we Gew*&q..."Haiku, haiku, it's off to Riot we Gew*"<br /><br />* this banner says: Made in Norfolk<br /><br />*tittersA. N. Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00605112552228814421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-58720328483958260212011-04-06T19:54:07.345+01:002011-04-06T19:54:07.345+01:00Is not the starving of PBS of funds a cynical assu...Is not the starving of PBS of funds a cynical assumption by the powers that be that Mrs T S Eliot will step into the breach and save at least the Prize if not the whole caboodle which her late husband founded. Meanwhile she will also doubtless be expected to save East Coker from becoming a ribbon development called South Yeovil. This is what the Government and ACE and the Culture Secretary are now expecting of philanthropists - to fund the Arts and let everyone else off the hook. One cannot help feeling that Eliot as a most courageous and unstinting public intellectual must be turning in his unquiet East Coker churchyard.<br />RETAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-89252831731776874652011-04-06T17:41:57.342+01:002011-04-06T17:41:57.342+01:00Sonnet to 'em!!Sonnet to 'em!!Dafydd Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00805522795225835335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-48625274559808136072011-04-06T11:31:01.600+01:002011-04-06T11:31:01.600+01:00IAMB4PBS etc, ad naus. [collapses}IAMB4PBS etc, ad naus. [collapses}George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-65423118930086076052011-04-06T10:18:40.611+01:002011-04-06T10:18:40.611+01:00IAMB for PBS!IAMB for PBS!George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-32321556678139221522011-04-06T09:09:14.511+01:002011-04-06T09:09:14.511+01:00You should organise a march, George. Poets carryin...You should organise a march, George. Poets carrying poetic banners would be just about the best protest group ever.<br /><br />"Stanza Up for Your Writes!"<br /><br />*joins in the frivolity*Wingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-69001641584752584422011-04-05T22:05:13.604+01:002011-04-05T22:05:13.604+01:00I am rather hoping Michael Schmidt has friends in ...I am rather hoping Michael Schmidt has friends in high places. I can't see them from down here.<br /><br />I have not yet seen the headline 'Anvil get Hammered'.<br /><br />Forgive me, I am so tired I can only speak in frivolities.<br /><br />When I wake up I will be sensible again. PEN is pretty London bound, that is true. It's like the Royal Society of Literature which I can never get to despite being a Fellow of it. Perhaps if Moniza is one, or becomes one, we could found a Wymondham branch.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-14522505918223019292011-04-05T18:48:30.191+01:002011-04-05T18:48:30.191+01:00By the by, I'm also not convinced that English...By the by, I'm also not convinced that English PEN should have had their funding from the Arts Council TRIPLED this year. Yes, they do great work with translators and yes, they advocate for many writers in prison round the world (I write to two such writers), but in this age of austerity I don't think ANY organization should get their funding tripled.<br /><br /> And as for reach and scope, English PEN for all its virtues might as well be re-named London PEN. They hardly ever have an event outside the Big Smoke. If they have 2 events per month, say, then that's 24 in the year. Maybe 2 of those will be Somewhere English That Is Not London. They do charge slightly less per subscription to us benighted souls who inhabit the provinces, but it is only slightly less. <br /><br /> Friends in high places is the phrase that comes to mind. Michael Schmidt at Carcanet has had his funding cut but only a bit, whereas Anvil have had their funding cut by 42%. Which leads me to suspect that Michael Schmidt has friends in high places and that the folk at Anvil have friends in rather lower places.panthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-16193965199994609862011-04-05T12:28:29.669+01:002011-04-05T12:28:29.669+01:00I suspect the Olympics taradiddle is similar to th...I suspect the Olympics taradiddle is similar to the AHRB knowing that they're only going to get government money if they agree to fund research projects that accord with government priorities ('the big society'). Murky waters.charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16580118367334638930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-63559383872982436332011-04-05T11:05:01.421+01:002011-04-05T11:05:01.421+01:00How can an intelligent person agree to abase herse...How can an intelligent person agree to abase herself like that? It's degrading to everyone involved. I hope they publish a rebuttal from someone who still has a degree of independence of mind.Cliff Lainenoreply@blogger.com