There is an important difference between Walcott and Padel - Walcott
is a good poet while Padel is a very average one.
Tim A.
On 27 May 2009, at 10:13, Dominic Fox wrote:
> I get the impression that Padel is one of those people who thinks,
> more or less, that all's fair in love and war: that there are
> certain situations where people's basic interests are in conflict
> where it's no use worrying about common decency and reasonableness
> because you'll just get walked all over. Lots of people do think
> that; I think I don't, but I may be fooling myself. She's also one
> of those poets for whom "being a poet" entails a certain
> shamelessness and egotism, not terribly admirable in themselves but
> necessary to the profession as she conceives it. I'm not sure
> Walcott is much different. Good luck finding a poet with a high
> public profile who has a different notion of what it is to be a
> poet, or a human being.
>
> Dominic
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