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Issue 15: November 2009
The perceptive reader will soon notice that all the poets with new writing in this issue appear to be male. This is largely, but not wholly, an accidental circumstance. I had received by the point at which I was beginning to put the issue together, only one or two contributions by women (and I had been relying heavily on submitted material). It occurred to me to improvise on this circumstance, and rather than maintain what might appear a mere token female presence, see what an all male issue would appear like — with a subsequent issue of course to be all female. And beyond that, future issues of Great Works (if it continues) to change to be much more solicited and constructed in their assemblages of texts.
So please take this all-male issue as pragmatic, not programmatic. This isn't "male writing" or "men's poems" — it is poetry by people who happen to be able to be labelled as male (whatever that may mean). Please approach on that basis. You are free to make whatever analyses or observations you wish; but it's probably pretty flimsy evidence: something I've done to manoeuvre out of a position I was unhappy with, and just to see what the result would be. The poets included have been informed after the fact of the nature of the issue. That is the sole extent of any common project — beyond that inherent in Great Works of publishing innovative poetry in modernist/postmodernist modes. This is is a site for innovative writing: modernist, postmodernist, archaic. It proclaims the need to let a thousand flowers bloom, and rejects any single definition of what writing is. It welcomes alternative poetries and other writing. It proudly offers no retrieval of coherence at a higher interpretative level.
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