Despite the fact that blogs are “written by fools to be read by imbeciles”, as the Wall Street Journal would have us believe, as reported by Ms. Baroque, I can still point all willing imbeciles to three foolish blogs that somehow happen to make excellent reading:
First, it’s good to see that Geoff has a new poetry blog, and that he’s begun with a pretty good poem inspired by something I wrote unwittingly on this blog.
Second, Todd Swift’s Eyewear features Sheffield-based poet, Ben Wilkinson. Well worth taking a look at.
Third, Smoog has started blogging again, and if that wasn’t enough, she’s made the final shortlist for the CBC/Canada Council for the Arts 2006 National Literary Award, one of 31 from an initial 1,100 entries. Good luck, Rachel!
Not bad going. Especially for fools and imbeciles.
4 comments:
Many thanks for that, Rob.
The Wall Street Journal clearly failed to do any meaningful research in making such a comment about the diverse blog community: even the regular contributors to the esteemed Times Lit Sup indulge in meaningful blogging from time to time...
This reminds me of the blog-spat (or should that read splat) that Rachel Cooke caused with her article in the Guardian on pretty much the same thing
Deliver us from these latter-day Pooters
Bloggers are convenient for blaming the world's ills on, betimes.
Yes, I saw the Cooke piece, and I reckon the Wall Street Journal did too - if you see what I mean. If it causes controversy and sells papers...
You're dead right there Rob, it goes around and around, doesn's it?
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