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So: we'd like to be in a world where books were asigned to reviewers on the basis of their aptness to respond - regardless, one might add, of age, status or career niche. But, it hardly needs to be said, this ain't the case! There's many another british poet with no more than "a book or two of POEMS" to their - uh - credit, sometimes even less, who'd have made a good response to the critical/theoretical lucky bag Maxwell gasped at. But the TLS wouldn't dream of asking them, because to do so wd've been to take poetry out of the anyone-can-do-it section, and raise it to something where a degree of professionalism is involved. And this is not on the agendas of many of the "major reviewing journals". Or so it seems to me. RC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%