Faber has become a rubbish publisher, Robin, rubbish binding, editing,
paper, print - nowadays (if I have any money) I always look for the
infinitely better produced American editions, which are often cheaper too.
What do you expect from the U(ndead) K(weendom)?
mj
And the globe keeps rolling towards a pocket without a bottom although on
the way the green cloth field is smooth. - Louis MacNeice
----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Hamilton
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Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Desert island poetry books
> Philip Larkin Collected Poems (ed. Thwaite 1989)
Isn't this the clusterfuck Larkin editon?
Whether or not you like Larkin, he went to a hell of a lot of trouble to
arrange the poems in book form. which Thwaite tediously deconstructed into
chronological form.
Didn't Faber recant (my copy has the publication date as 1988, not 1989) and
reissue this with the poems grouped -- North Ship, etc. -- in the form
Larkin intended?
There are problems with Collecteds -- Berryman's Lise of the Berryman
Sonnets gets retro-edited to is it Nora or Jane? in (yet again) the Faber
Collected Berryman.
<sigh>
R.
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