I actually met Jaspistos at a Speccie do many years ago. He was in the company of a very drunk Scots cartoonist and was charming. In the flesh he was James Michie who translated Latin poetry and also wrote poetry of his own. Hs 'Arizona Nature Myth' is his best, and bloody good it is too. In those days the Poetry Editor was P.J. Kavanagh, still with us and judging the 'Adlestrop' competition where I was a runner-up. Fings ain't what they used to be, but then they never were.
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