[R. S. Gwynn]

http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/books-and-aut...et-who-forgot/

This is a good and poignant book. I had some correspondence with Alec in the late 70s and 80s, and I earlier heard him read in 1968, which occasioned a lifelong love affair with his work. He was a great poet, of course, but a great man as well. I would hate to see his works vanish into obscurity. He is part of the great tradition but, like Clive James (to a lesser degree), has suffered from being Antipodean. This sonnet should prove the peer of any in English. Any.