letters
Norman Hidden, Workshop Press Ltd, 2 Culham Ct, Granville Rd, N4
Dear Peter,
Here with belated but none the less hearty and totally unsolicited congratulations on your Second Aeon issue no.14. I read it with envy. It contains a fine selection of poetry, and - more significantly - it shows what can be done when a little magazine editor has the financial backing to be able to go ahead with his ideas. This issue of Second Aeon has in it everything I would like to have had in Workshop, but am not able to for lack of money. The situation for little mags is today parlous. I've been preaching their cause for years, both to live audiences and in articles (see for instance my article in Books & Bookmen Dec. 1970) For the first time I am no longer optimistic about the future; there is a receding tide, reflected in the closure of bookshops and their hardening attitudes towards poetry mags. I've worked on the Arts Council and have been promised that they will call a conference of little mag editors sometime in the New Year. I told the Arts Council to bring along their shields and steel helmets! But if it comes off it might be useful. It's not money I want mainly, but a proper recognition of what we are doing and its value to literature as a whole. It was the T.L.S. that mentioned (I haven't the exact reference to hand) that 90% of our established authors first began life in little magazines.
Best Wishes,
Norman.
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