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Have you read Crow, that is a wonderful book, it clawed me into love with it.
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I have a colleague who has A2 facsimiles of Baskin's illustrations to Crow - an early edition, I think, or a limited print-run - I'd have to ask them -
either way, they are extraordinary. One of the reasons I love broadsides. I wonder if Hughes was hate-able, and if hate-able is the opposite to urbane.
The Dymock poets are what they are, but personally I like it best when they overspill into different worlds, or where they are allowed critically to stray.
I love Robert Graves, though - their elan, their stupid-loveliness.
And then there's Ivor Gurney, whose work I always feel that I should like, but I still can't make myself like it.
Sarah-Jane