John, Very many thanks for your recit which has just arrived - oh, what it is to be a real writer and be able to charge straight down the avenue. I think i remain a sort of Thomas Gray amateur. Thanks also for Salt's new Hejinian. I look forward to reading them both, though it may have to be after that review. No response to your Gr7 so far from the list. I will download it tonight and take it home with me. Might be able to prompt something tomorrow. I must admit admit I have spent the morning sketching out the first section of a new poem of mine, "Whitefield in Wild Wheel" - not so much a sparse clump of trees this time as what wheels round it, the dynamics of desertification and reassertion. I've got behind with it and it needs to happen now before it goes off the boil. I'll send you the new book I mentioned the other day. Best w Peter Peter Larkin Philosophy & Literature Librarian University of Warwick Library Coventry CV4 7AL UK Tel: 01203 528151 Fax: 01203 524211 Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%