David Bircumshaw writes,
"It was interesting in Astely's list of the luckless
un Guardian
reviewed ethnic minorities whose culture is ignored
that he chose
David Dabyadeen, Fred D'Aguiar and Eddie Markham, I've
met all three,
great guys all, but they are professional wordsmith
academic
based poets who are as far from the slums as you can
get - DD has a
good line in blank verse, D'Aguiar redoes Yeats with a
Guyanan
slant and is esteemed by the local government."
To which it might also be added that the Tuma
anthology Astley ridicules introduced these guys to
American readers.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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