Coincidentally, I've just been re-reading Landing Light, and trying to persuade myself to like it more than I did first time - and failing. I like it less. In general, I find it hard to like the facile couplets he's so fond of. They make me wish I was reading Pope - which isn't an easy thing to make me want.
Still, he's better than his late chum, Michael Donaghy, who I really can't stand. And he wrote a beautiful essay about prosody in Poetry Review a while back. For me, he's like Zadie Smith - better at writing about his art than doing it.
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