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|Fred Beake has just been visiting me to collect his email and
|he considers my poetry to be rubbish, although we very much enjoy
|discussing poetry together. Poetry is all to do with personal taste
|and I tend to have strident views but am always prepared to view
|the other side. Fred's view of it is that Peter Dale (ex-co-editor
|of Agenda) is rubbish, whereas I would term Peter minor (like myself)
|but Fred has some appreciation of Charles Tomlinson so I bow to him.
|Perhaps it is in the area of the quality of Charles' language.
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|What I am saying is that everybody disagrees and it comes down to
|concensus over the generations as to what endures. I would like
|Lawrence to say what he sees as the positive features of Charles T.
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