P.S>
Re the unanimous agreement on these pages that Andrea Brady's was the
"best" reading and Lisa Robertson's "second best" -- this is being made
largely by people who don't normally get up before 1 o'clock, and so missed
Michael Ayres' reading, which I thought was incredibly eloquent (and was
also the first reading he's ever given). Absolutely measured and calm and
distinct. It was impossible to distinguish the reading from the poetry.
The only thing wrong with Robert Adamson's reading was that he was too
close to the mike.
If people really want CCCP to be treated as a horse race we could in future
issue form cards and bets could be placed on who comes first or "best"
(profits to CCCP). Don't people realise that these Cambridge ex-Leavisite
attitudes are crude echoes of product publicity terminology?
Robert Walker's reading/talk seems to have stirred up a lot of animus, I'm
not sure why. I felt rather lukewarm about it but apparently Andrew Duncan
detested it fiercely, which makes one think one aught to consider it more
generously.
/PR
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