U-turns by two magazines as poets’ work is rejected over social media posts
The editor of a poetry magazine has drawn attention to the way another literary journal first published a review of a poet’s book, then withdrew it on the grounds that social media posts by the poet, Polly Clark, ran the risk of causing offence. Gerry Cambridge, long-standing founder and editor of The Dark Horse, said on social media that the move by Gutter, which describes itself as Scotland’s leading literary magazine, to wi...
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