One of the calmest human beings I know is a friend of Alan Ross - he's a
'weekend' poet and retired gardener and cricketer called Norman, the sort of
person you always wish had been your uncle.
I have just heard on the radio that a Review of the Fleet planned for the
Queen's whatever-it-is Jubilee next year has been cancelled. Because the
Royal Navy no longer has enough ships.
I dedicate this overhearing to Kent.
david
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From: kent johnson <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Alan Ross(anecdote)
> This is sad news, though I never knew Alan Ross. I spoke to him once on
the
> phone, calling him to ask when a couple poems from the Yasusada manuscript
> he had accepted months previous (a short but nice handwritten letter along
> with brochures of the mag and a copy of one with a picture of Hitler on
the
> cover, no less) might be coming out. He was very nice, said "soon," that
he
> was (this was interesting) "delighted to have them, whatever their nature"
> and that I would get copies of the magazine. That's my memory, more or
> less-- years back. I wish I would have known he was a cricket devotee-- my
> uncle played professionally.
>
> But I never received any copy of LM or heard from him again, so don't know
> for sure if the poems ever did appear. I wonder if Ross had a change of
> heart, as this was not too long before articles appeared in Poetry Review,
> Stand, Manchester Guardian, and London FT, and a couple other places over
> there, and perhaps he felt the context was too different. But if by some
> chance anyone remembers seeing these, could you please let me know? One of
> them, I remember was "Drunk Man with Shoes." This would have been ca.
95-96.
>
> Kent
>
>
> >From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Alan Ross
> >Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:40:40 -0000
> >
> >Alan Ross, editor of _London Magazine_, has recently died. There's an
obit
> >at The Guardian website:
> >
> >http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4137017,00.html
> >
> >Robin
>
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