Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Thanks, Stephen -- I'm looking forward to seeing it myself (tomorrow).
>
It looks really good, Roger and I are pretty pleased with it.
> I'm not even quite sure what's in it.
>
> Joanna (Boulter) wearing her editor's hat, chopped [rightly] quite a bit
> from it, mostly rhymed poems.
You lie! It was only 2 or 3 that I actually chopped (though that begs the
question of whether or not I *ought to have chopped further.) I fiddled your
order about a bit, too. And I'd do it again, if I had to.
>
> The only one I (sulkily) regret losing was "Persuasions to Enjoy".
>
> So it was Marvell-lite, but it was *good* Marvell-lite.
>
> I *mean*, how can you write a rhymed octosyllabic quatrain poem +without+
> sounding like Marvell?
> :-(
> Robin
>
Well, quite -- that was precisely my point. We wanted poems that sounded
like Robin. Marvell-lite sounds like a brand of powdered skimmed milk ....
Anyway, Dormouse, I think and hope that you'll be pleased with the final
result.
joanna
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 5:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Robin Hamilton - Pacts and Conjurations - New and Selected
> Poems
>
>
> Congratulations, Robin.
>
> Stephen V
>
>> Robin Hamilton - Pacts and Conjurations - New and Selected Poems
>> 1982-2004
>>
>> This book of just under 200 pages of poetry is now available
>
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