Eat your heart out, David! I've got the series from No. 1 (Durrell,
Jennings, R. S. Thomas) - 1967 reprint, cost 60 cents - to No. 15 (Bold,
Brathwaite, Morgan) 1969, cost 75 cents. But, then, I bought them "back
then" as they were issued. But will take your advice and "snap up" others in
the series post-15.
Thanks for this thread. I've taken them from the bookshelves and put them on
the bedside table to re-read.
Cheers,
Viv
David Kennedy wrote:
> Yes, I have this volume which is a gem. If you see any of the old PMPs in
> secondhand shops then snap'em up. Another goodie would be no 19 which is
> Ashbery, Harwood and Raworth which I found recently for 1.5 Blair pounds.
> With very few exceptions - the Denise Riley one - the new series just
> doesn't seem as good.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lovely <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>;
> [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 04 July 2000 22:04
> Subject: New Directions Paperbacks (Koch)
>
>
> >No, Steve, but I remember the poem! It was in a Penguin Modern Poets
> >volume, the first series thereof: (Kenward) Elmslie, (Kenneth) Koch,
> >(James) Schuyler - I think PMP #24 - that made a tremendous impression
> >on
> >me as a callow youth. From thinking all poems had to go dee-da dee-da
> >dee-da dee-da dee-da/ line-break/with maybe the occasional da-dee
> >somewhere, my horizons were opened. Unfortunately somewhere in the
> >intervening years I seem to have contrived to misplace it.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >PS I see William Herbert remembers this volume too..
> >
>
>
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