On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Peter Riley wrote:
> R.F.Langley, Jack. Equipage. £2.50 from me.
> RFL is
> typical of the many excellent poets who don't get referred to by Br.-Poets
> persons cataloguing their favourites.
- there's a chance here for you, Peter, to refer to him in more detail
yourself, to correct the imbalance you've very properly identified. I'd
welcome that.
> I could make a list of about ten worthy poets who are neglected WITHIN and
> BY the anti-mainstream zone in which we are said to be operating.
- Only 10? Bet I could list 10 without crossing over your 10. Here's a few
off the top of my head who wrote well when last I came across them, are
still writing well as far as I know, don't get triffic'ly much attention,
and don't appear in Other: Simon Cutts, Jeremy Hilton, Bill Martin,
g.f.dutton, Koef Nielsen, Alasdair Paterson, Tim Longville (I suspect he's
stopped writing actually), Paul Gogarty, Steve Oldfield, Philip Jenkins
(Oh, he's in State of Independence)...
Big sea. Small boats. Only so many messages in bottles each one of us can
bring to shore. Nobody claims to catch everyone.
RC
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