Do a search of the british & irish poets archive. Peter Riley - ever
the 18th century gent - gives a counterbalancing view of those events.
BTW, JHP would probably deny the labels obscurantist, Marxist and
Cambridge. In that order. As for the laughable tag "sons of prynne"
... I suspect no one involved would even recognise that distortion.
Roger
On 10/30/06, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This HAS to be apocryphal! -
>
> 'after the Cambridge Marxist-obscurantist poet Jeremy Prynne told the Newcastle
> poet Tom Pickard to keep his young son quiet during a reading, Pickard went
> outside and smashed his Land Rover into Prynne's half-timbered Morris Oxford
> saloon.'
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