I think I would agree. They werent my kind of poetry, but some had a
bite.
Doug
On 21-Apr-10, at 8:00 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
> I would challenge that. Her poems have never done much for me except
> irritate but nevertheless there is a case to be made for the
> stringent quality of her earlier work, it had an edge. Now that edge
> is gone.
>
> Tim A.
>
> On 21 Apr 2010, at 14:50, Dominic Fox wrote:
>
>> CAD may be the first holder of the post whose laureate poems are no
>> worse than
>> her pre-laureate output.
>>
>> Dominic
>
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