Doug
I remember buying the very same out-of-date Padraic Fallon when I was about
nineteen, I think. His poems struck me, very uneven but full of texture, of
charges of rhythm and sound, very unlike the boring stuff that is mostly
produced today, they took risks, but when people are writing poems not from
an inner need but to an eye to grants, winning competitions, being invited
to read, status in the the literary community, as it were, the result is
utter dullness. I could say more but I'd better not.
Best
Dave
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:39 PM
Subject: Padraic Fallon
Just to say that I got the new Carcanet catalogue in this
morning and see that in Autumn 2003 they intend issuing a
new Padraic Fallon Selected POems to replace the out-of-print
book that I have. I think it is the only book in the catalogue
that I will buy as basically I part company with keeping
up-to-date with poetry.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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