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Thanks, Matthew. I was misremembering re: Graham. Here's an excerpt from an interview he did with John Haffenden (a very faded faxed copy of which sits in my sadly incomplete Collected Poems) which I'm sure you know but anyway for the list: Haffenden: Do you still have a high regard for the poems you wrote much earlier in life? Graham: One has to watch not to take it as a natural thing that the poems should get better and better through one's career. They change. Of course I'm tempted to say I liek my later poems more than earlier ones, but I couldn't add a page to my early books. They have a quality which is no longer in me: one is no longer made of the same stuff, one can't put out the same cloth. I wouldn't like it to be easily accepted that those are boyish balloons and effervescence. No, I get a certain kick out of early poems that I don't get out of later work. Speaking about my father, for example. In a _kind_ of way maybe I get less worse, but it's not just like that. Certain things occurred in the early poems which couldn't occur now, and make not just a random shape out of ignorance but something else. / / / / / / / / / / / / Flat 59 room 2 Albany Park St Andrews KY16 8BP Scotland (00 44) + 1334 427862 (internal university number 7862)