Mine arrived a while ago. I always look forward to it, though the sentence that's made me pause for thought the most in this issue is the perhaps atypical "Gay men growing up in the mid-century in Scotland necessarily found tricks of concealment, and the 'avant-garde' offered an environment in which creativity could be engaged in without too much awkward self-revelation and without having to decide exactly how serious one was about what one was writing" (D.M.Black).
I'm interested in how character traits might relate to poetry styles (though I guess Formalists are rather fed up with that issue). I've been described as a concealer, and I guess I've dabbled a bit with avant-garde stuff. But I've only spent a weekend in Scotland - so far.
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