From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
> And just to add that I have never thought anything of FRancis
Berry
> since I picked up a book of his in Leeds over thirty years ago.
> But Philip Hobsbaum still champions him vigorously.
I think it depends on the particular Berry poems -- I'm not
terribly keen on the work before +Morant Bay+ (which is my
favourite Berry poem, partly because it was the first one of his
I encountered). That, or "Hvalsey", or "Punitive Expedition" (an
addendum to +Morant Bay+) are good places to start, I think.
Philip Hobsbaum wrote the foreword, and edited, Berry's COLLECTED
POEMS (Redcliffe, 1994), so he's still championing vigorously, as
Douglas says.
Robin Hamilton
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