Speaking as someone who has `Poetic Artifice' and the Allardyce, Barnett
Collected Poems upstairs in my book room let me say that I do not rate
her. Fred Beake says that her poetry came good towards the end but I see
it getting more prosey and weaker. In fact it becomes very ordinary and
less experimental. Of the prose book I remember nothing. Perhaps I
should go explore in my cardboard boxes and dig these out.
I will think about it. If I can find them.
And my feelings on Veronica's work have nothing to do with the fact that
she beat me for the Leeds Prize around 1970.
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