--- david bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Mairead wrote:
>
> 'There was nothing
> shiny or inventive about this poetry and the
> literati spat on it. For
> some reason, he didn't mind being truly awful --'
>
> Now that is exactly why and where Kavanagh is more
> than say Heaney, no,
> sorry, no, say many, whatever the inflation of his
> self-opinion. He was
> good enough to risk writing badly . . . .
>
> david
>
Indeed, indeed. There is nothing like the despair of
writing competently.
Best
Alison
>
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