http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/26/poetry
I like Sharon Olds, which slightly surprises me. I think she just goes
that little bit further: it's not self-congratulatory, it's not
telling itself how terribly virtuous and brave it is to be saying such
things, just saying what wants saying, even to (and past) the point of
self-embarrassment.
There is a terribly funny irony in her saying that she thinks the best
bits, poetically speaking, of her poems are like something Seamus
Heaney would have written on an off-day. I like Seamus Heaney, used to
think he was the business and would still pick up a new collection
with interest, but there's no way he'd ever write like Sharon Olds.
Dominic
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