What a relief - I was beginning to think I was the only person who thought
the BL were bad. They just repeat in a longwinded documentary fashion themes
that Plath made into real poetry in her own work. When he can't think of an
ending for one, he just does something on the lines of 'now here you are,
cold and dead in your coffin' - fine for the end of a book, but not for poem
after poem. And what about 'girlfriend like a loaded crossbow' (=highly
strung?)? But of course you can't criticize the poems because they were both
such glamorous, newsworthy people.
Best wishes,
Matthew Francis
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PS. Hi. First posting. There aren't any initiation rites, I hope.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Upton. <[log in to unmask]>
To: british-poets <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 27 January 1999 20:25
Subject: Re: prize money
>Not at all. I read the birthday letters and thought they were bad. I
>listened to tales from Ovid on the radio and thought them very good.
>"the fuss" is about the creation of celebrity - there's a web zine running
a
>competition for euphemisms for masturbation. I think I shall enter that.
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