Before my e-mail system collapses (it's staggering round the room groaning
and holding its head) I was going to attempt to respond to Ric's
interesting challenges to David Kennedy before I get to see what he says,
if he does. Unfortunately I've erased them (or something did) and can only
remember one. Which went roughly--
Name two non-Mainstream poets whose reputations have been blown up like SH
and TH.... is that right?
Er, Robert Creeley. John Ashbery.
And in a very different way, JH Prynne. Not on the same scale of course,
but he does get regarded as a sanctified asset, and as with Heaney some
people would be very glad of an electricity bill or some
fingernail-clippings....
Well that should stir up some porridge while I put my feet up for the
weekend and listen to Ross Daly's new CD.
/PR
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