We were friends for the better part of ten years. I'm proud to have brought him to the states for the first time. We went to a baseball game in Houston (John was big on cricket), and he met with my students over a week. I knew he'd be a big hit at West Chester. It's a shame that his books are so hard to get in the U.S.
I like what Orwn says about John's poetry being "conceptual." Most of his poems turn on an unusual conceit, in a very special sense of the term, and he is equally a poet for eye and ear. He was the real thing.
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