Yeah, Nate
I'm a Haslamite confessed, and was amazed at the un-balloo for the Bauble.
As for the MacGriefTalk that's been on, well, the Hitler likeness was as
reported, not from me, and perhaps the Mosley comparison's a little closer a
resonance, or, at least, on a scale more manageable and British.
But I would stress I'm keen-eared on his Lallansry, even if it sidelined the
urban of the Clydeside most-folk, and his English poems flash out from time
and again. The Personality of the Author? hoots, man, Does He Exist?
cheers
david dot bircumshaw
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To: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>; brit poets
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Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: RF Langley's Collected Poems
> David: glad the review/sample quotes from Langley seemed convincing. It's
> an important book, & Carcanet's to be commended for taking it on. (Same
> goes for their publication of Michael Haslam's _A Whole Bauble_, a book
that
> deserved a little more hullaballoo; it's not as pared-down as Langley's
> _Collected Poems_, the later sections being to my eye rather over-the-top,
> but at its core is _Continual Song_, one of the best books to appear in
the
> 1980s. Fans of Michael Corless-Smith should take a look at it.)
>
> I should clarify that I don't myself find it easy or necessarily desirable
> to cordon off my sense of an author's personality or behaviour from their
> work; but it's a complex matter, which has nothing to do with casual
> image-blackening ("he reminds me of Hitler"). Attendees at CCCP this year
> will recall Kevin Nolan's blast at similar one-line dismissals of Ed Dorn.
>
> all best --N
>
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