Fred Beake to Ric Caddell
1. As regards your last paragraph, no I am NOT being
invidious towards anyone. As to the idea that I should be being unpleasant
in some unspecified way towards Bill Griffiths, or Maggie O'Sullivan, both
of whose work I have loved for twenty years, and premoted whenever I have
had the chance, the least said probably the better.
2. You clearly don't like my ideas, which is fair enough,
but what are yours? I notice with wearisome regularity that poets of
whatever persuasion will not discuss rhythm, as if it were some great
taboo. This is getting about as silly as its inversion, the obsession of
the 18th century with the heroic couplet, and it will kill Free Verse dead
before we are finished. It was not how the great Modernists worked. Right
down to Ginsberg writing out all the Greek feet in his journal in the
Fifties they were obsessed with how what they did worked, Bunting of course
not least (as you perfectly rightly observe). So, what are YOUR views?
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