Douglas Clark wrote:
>
> I am glad Dave enjoyed his reading but I must confess
> I have never seen anything in his poetry. I remember
> asking Peter Dale why Agenda had devoted a special issue
> to him and Peter said he had no idea and he didnt like
> Tomlinson's work either but William Cookson had gone
> ahead. (They were both editors of Agenda at the time
> but Cookson owns the magazine which nowadays seems to
> have run out of funds after the withdrawal of its funding.)
>
> I thought very highly of Tomlinson's translations of
> Bertolucci and if I ever see his Ungaretti I must buy
> it. Tomlinson is a visual artist as well as a poet.
> But to me he is a very bad poet.
>
>
Well I for one disagree. I admit I find him dry and don't read him
often - but when I do I'm always impressed, and used to be intimidated,
by his precise observation and rhetorical restraint. Someone once
described T as a great French poet lost in English.
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