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<p class="byline">James Rimmer </p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I must say publishing poetry was not the direction I expected when the <em>Baird’s Tale</em> was launched. Surveying my circle of friends I’d assumed I’d be overwhelmed with opinionated blog posts, educated treatises and a smattering of fiction. I expected heavy analysis, ploddy academic writing and debates over the Editor’s privilege to cut whole paragraphs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I did not expect the lithe, cutting, moving poetry to fill the submission box. It was a wonderful and delightful surprise - and hearty challenge, pushing my skills as an editor. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The works in this collection have been chosen because I think they capture the best of the poetry I’ve seen. Carter’s ability to capture a conversation in verse I have always found compelling. Kylie’s works were selected for their painting quality - she sets a whole tableau, a vivid image with her verse. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I do agree with Karissa that we all write bad poetry - my own contribution of accounting verse a strong testament to that - but, like her, I think that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t write poetry. In fact, finding bad poetry in the world around me was my goal in my piece. The poetic is more than rhyming lyrics, it is in life itself - from a well timed bus transfer to a piece of bureaucratic jargon laying down on the meaning of life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The <em>Baird’s Tale Poetry Special</em> is to bring together and celebrate the poetic - in all its forms - in the life the Baird. </span></p>
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