I agree with Peter about the big book problem. Once Anthony Barnett's
valuable enterprise folded, and that strange Paladin interlude was over,
there was no obvious place for the retrospective view of some of the
middle-generation poets whose work we should know. I've mentioned this in
Shearsman 37 (being distributed next week, much too hard on the heels of
its predecessor - sorry) a propos David Chaloner and, in passing, John
James, but it most assuredly applies to Peter himself. The kind of book
that we need would not be 60pp-plus as I think Keston mentioned (I actually
do books of about this size anyway from time to time) but 120pp-plus -
actually about the size of the new Cape edition of Michael Longley's
Selected Poems, which I've just received for review.....
Tony Frazer
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