Consensus?
Consensus? The files have gone to the publisher and we have chosen this moment to send parts of the same files to the poets, for checking. This includes the biographical snippets and this was inherently likely to provoke the poets. To recall, the project didn’t have these and the initial editor didn’t think they were helpful. More like a DJ talking over a record, so why not get straight into the poems. He was overruled by the other editor and the publisher, so we now have Bios, but it turned out that the person who thought they were a bad idea had to write them all. Mysterious. Anyway, we expect the files to go to the designer/ typesetter soon. Correspondence about the proofs has produced some interesting material, of which we give some excerpts below. “as for huddersfield, there was indeed a period there of synergy, or perhaps synergies, plural, would be more accurate, when we made a lot of noise in an effort to get attention for poets in the area, and in the north more generally,...