>Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:28:32 +0000
>To:"Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
>From:[log in to unmask] (Peter Riley)
>Subject:Re: Prynne Book
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>>Incidentally, did anyone see the `review' of this, by
>>Vernon Scannell, in The Sunday Telegraph three
>>weeks ago? Apart from a bit of intro, the review
>>consisted entirely of Scannell saying the poems
>>didn't make any sense. He quoted a whole poem to
>>demonstrate this point, making no other comment.
>>A hostile review is one thing, but would any other
>>sort of book - a science book, say, or an economics
>>book - get this sort of treatment from a national press
>>reviewer?
>>
>>Richard Kerridge
V. Scannell is well known for this sort of thing. His review of Conductors
of Chaos was the same. He's a regular newspaper reviewer of poetry and I
don't think he's ever been known to say anything about any poetry, whether
he likes it or not, except that he likes it or not, which concerns or
interests us, or not, as we see fit. It may not be entirely irrelevant
that he was at one time a professional boxer.
/PR
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