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More Bloody Critical Feedback Please!
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I personally think the level of critical feedback on this site is dropping badly. Yes it is important to be supportive of the new or young poets, but this is not a mutual admiration society (to use a polite phrase for it). It is a poetry workshop. We are here to help each other grow and develop, and that can be a painful process. I say if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen!
How many of the poems posted are perfect? Look through the comments, how many practical, constructive suggestions are made?
I am sometimes tempted to post crits of my own poems! I bloody well know for a start that my work is too prosaic and needs more attention to prosodic values and would like some help with that.
Some poems really are crap and I think there are grounds for saying that too, as long as it is carefully expressed as one's own opinion and not a statement of fact.
What? Are people afraid that if they post a crit they might get one? If so why are you here? There are plenty of totally uncritical "posting holes" online, with pretty pictures of stars, fairies and dolphins too!
Come on! Let's get real!
cheers
Jess