tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269595.post4490931509742793101..comments2023-07-30T19:22:53.810+09:30Comments on Ruby Street: Best Australian poetry 2011Jill Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11239553936363212721noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269595.post-17488209272768692892011-10-18T09:24:48.124+10:302011-10-18T09:24:48.124+10:30Thanks for this post Jill, nice to mix ideas about...Thanks for this post Jill, nice to mix ideas about. <br /><br />In 2004/6 when I was still living in central coastal Queensland, I tried to float the idea (with some other poets) to develop a regional anthology. An anthology which gathered up poets who wrote from outside of the mainstream of cities and support structures. <br /><br />So many poets in Australia who are not connected by the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269595.post-35205237285544461802011-10-06T00:15:32.446+10:302011-10-06T00:15:32.446+10:30Thanks Davey. I think this is the important point ...Thanks Davey. I think this is the important point - that editors present what is good, new, interesting, surprising, fresh, etc. The old model doesn't work. Four of these kinds of conservative anthologies in as many years - please, let's move on. Rather projects like OOTB, your work on OzKo, the Motherlode anthology, also what Kit Kelen is doing with translation, and other projects that IJill Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11239553936363212721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269595.post-69694713958402876802011-10-05T18:03:43.312+10:302011-10-05T18:03:43.312+10:30Nice post Jill, I wrote something similar yesterda...Nice post Jill, I wrote something similar yesterday but it lacked the real gist of what you're saying here. I agree that the whole 'Best' concept does wear thin after a while - anthologies like Out of the Box or the recent Australia/Ukraine project (or even, dare I say, Oz-Ko) seem more interesting and vital models to me, mostly because they're not trying to present themselves as David Praterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350389597303897854noreply@blogger.com