Comments on: Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’ http://otherroom.org/2009/12/21/guardian-reveals-top-ten-poetry-of-the-noughties/ Experimental poetry in Manchester Sat, 19 May 2012 16:33:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: theotherroom http://otherroom.org/2009/12/21/guardian-reveals-top-ten-poetry-of-the-noughties/#comment-1094 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:15:06 +0000 http://otherroom.org/?p=2115#comment-1094 Sorry if it’s messed any of your friends about searching for the article. It was posted to raise discussion over the books and the terrible state of newspaper literature sections (not just poetry in the UK).

Yes it is a hoax. I wish it were not; that’s why I posted it just like the Bernstein hoax. The link in the feature takes you to http://www.marcelduchamp.com which I thought was red herring enough to make out this was a joke: a website which doesn’t exist but yet does – A weird paradox with such a title. I do believe in the list tho a hell of a lot although the Guardian would never publish such a thing as it has no notion of contemporary poetry. This article incidentally got connected in our traffic http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/jan/02/noughtiessofarthebook . It makes this Other Room feature even more poignant since I don’t believe in lists but were I to then I had a another load of books up my sleeve, so I’m glad I wrote it.

JD

]]> By: Ron Silliman http://otherroom.org/2009/12/21/guardian-reveals-top-ten-poetry-of-the-noughties/#comment-982 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:19:05 +0000 http://otherroom.org/?p=2115#comment-982 Do you have a URL for this? Or is this like Charles Bernstein unilaterally awarding me the Pulitzer Prize, a source of confusion that lasted for a month among well-wishers?

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