Chan Tah Wei, who was instrumental in this effort, was openly critical in an article: "Conservatively speaking, ECM poetry has a history of 70 years, but I have no interest in what came before 1970.
主其事的陳大為就坦白地寫文章批評：「馬華的詩史少說也有七十年，我對一九七○年以前的不感興趣，那些大多是粗糙的吶喊… …，『爛詩』與『非詩』佔了九成。」