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Profile of Emily Berry
Review in Under the Radar 16: Mark Rutter’s ‘Bashō in Acadia’; Siegfried Baber’s ‘When Love Came To The Cartoon Kid’
Mark Rutter’s Bashō in Acadia; Siegfried Baber’s When Love Came To The Cartoon Kid
RETURNS
Between 2003 and 2015, Arts Council England awarded £13,229,179 for poetry projects under the Grants for the Arts scheme.
My pamphlet RETURNS is published by If a Leaf Falls Press, in a run of 30. Apparently now sold out, copies are available from me if you want one: charleswhalley at gmail dot com.
— Charles Whalley (@charleswhalley) February 17, 2016
@charleswhalley pic.twitter.com/hpn9mJ5zIU
— Charles Whalley (@charleswhalley) February 17, 2016
Contributor fees for poetry book reviews
After a discussion on Twitter, I recently asked for responses to a survey on what writers had been paid, if anything, for reviewing poetry books in magazines. At time of writing, I’ve received two dozen responses. Some results:
Contributor fees for poetry book reviews — survey
I tweeted recently about which situations poetry critics could reasonably asked to be paid for their writing, and how much. As part of this discussion, it seemed clear that an easy way by which we could help would be to establish a minimum rate that critics/reviewers could expect, and an idea of which publications it would be reasonable to expect payment from.
In first conversations, a few people mentioned that all publications with some funding and/or national circulation should be able to pay, and at ~£100 per 1,000 words at minimum. However, this felt like it was arrived at somewhat arbitrarily.
Therefore, I’m collecting submissions on how much (if anything) writers have been paid for book reviews/criticism/essays by poetry magazines or websites in the past. This will only ever be published anonymously (if at all).
Please follow this link to submit a form on how much you’ve been paid for your writing. Please fill in the form and send once for each fee you’d like to record. If you don’t like forms or this form in particular, or if you’ve any other comments, or if you just want to send me an email, you can do that instead: charleswhalley@gmail.com.
“I can say these things, I say”
jesus wept this is fucking grim pic.twitter.com/7hnAbpuib4
— Charles Whalley (@charleswhalley) June 3, 2015
Last week, Craig Raine was “trending alongside Andy Coulson and Rafael Benitez”, after his poem in the London Review of Books was ridiculed on Twitter. The poet Andrea Brady, for instance, tweeted: “Not content merely to underrepresent women authors, @LRB wants to repulse those who read it”. I tweeted the photo that I took on my morning train, and was being asked for comment by a journalist after lunch.
Review in Under the Radar 14: Michael Conley’s Aquarium; Richard Moorhead’s The Word Museum
Michael Conley’s Aquarium; Richard Moorhead’s The Word Museum
(First appeared in Issue 14 of Under the Radar.)