Having never even heard of Wanting or Jackson, & not much about
Nuttall, I cant say much in reply. But I suspect things are as they
always have been: worse, & better....
Doug
On 28-Aug-10, at 3:28 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I bought a copy of Penguin Modern Poets 12 second-hand today (£3):
> from
> 1968 it stars William Wantling, Jeff Nuttall and Alan Jackson. Do
> you ever
> get this feeling that somehow things have gone terribly wrong in the
> years
> since?
>
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