Peter

 

I’m sorry to hear of the death of Pete Bland, who I knew for a brief time in Ipswich when he arrived there around 1978. Very quickly he alienated himself from those of us on the ‘edge’ – John Row (once of Stereo Graffiti), KM Dersley, Martin Stannard, Dave of Globe Bookshop, Pete Brown (a local poet and photgrapher) and others. I don’t know if you had contact with him during his Ipswich years but he seemed to want to live beyond society; beyond those who would have supported him. Sad indeed.

 

Rupert Mallin

Those interested in lost souls of 1960s poetry might like to know that the poet Peter Bland died two or three years ago in Ipswich, having lived there alone for about 30 years. (He shouldn't be confused with another poet of the same name, a New Zealander published by London Magazine Editions and Carcanet).