We were checking the net when we found a little bit of creative editing by “Jen” posted on the venerable Salt Publishing website. She does a little creative editing of the end of a light Andrew Duncan piece which appeared at the end of the magazine. I’ll give the last lines from Duncan and then the last lines from “Jen” as they appear on Saline.

Ducan (pg. 142 of issue 19):

Duncan: Methan: So what’s the poetry like?
Manly: It is full of wonderfully sibilant s and amazingly lateral l sounds. Let me expand on that if you will. Corcoran is like Corcoran. Glass is like Glass. Holman is like Holman. Holman is more like Holman than like Morris.
Methan: I’ve never heard of them.
Manly: Maybe you should read Angel Exhaust.

Jen’s version today on the Saline site:

Methan: Could we just describe the individual poets?
Manly: Poets like Philpott and Nolan are too overwhelming and intricate to be described in a few words.
Methan: I’ve never heard of them.
Manly: Maybe you should read Angel Exhaust.

http://saltpublishing.com/saline/index.php?topic=235.0 is the lnk.

As you can see, this is a blatant fib.

I personally have nothing against philpott or Nolan, but notice that Duncan did not choose to point these writers out. It was quite other writers, myself included!

I’ve written a note to Chris Emery and posted this same note on the Buffalo list and the British poets list. I’ve also notfied Andrew Duncan about this. Maybe “Jen” felt it necessary to talk up Philpott and Nolan because they were personal favorites, but she had no right to misrepresent what Andrew Duncan wrote and post it. That indeed is a perversion of the truth and–sad to say–a lie.