Chris was my first mentor in poetry as we lived in the same village I would go to his cobweb-strewn house at Glynmercher Isaf and sit in front of the turn-of-the century range and talk and be talked at about names that would later be more familiar to me Cobbing, Lee Harwood, Jeremy Prynne, drink whisky and hear annecdotes of the British Poetry Revival and Barry MacSweeney's eyes. Certainly a model with regards integrity - sticking to his personal contacts as outlets for poetry - rarely making an unsolicited submission, everything typed on an old noisy brother ax typwriter (cartidges for which were traded and obtained by walking miles to Glynneath or further). He's talked about PATH as a complete to-date magic-door cycle volume for a few years now and his lyric via Olsonian poetic / beat poetry would be a welcome piece of the puzzle to be brought to a wider audience.