Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Derek Walcott: A Cockup: An Addendum

Poetry, evidently, touches every reader (mostly critics) differently. Oxford nominally accepts la différence; however, the latest edition of Oxford Poetry, edited by Hamid Khanbhai and Tom Richards, contains as an addendum an anonymous poem by a 'high-profile poet' about the campaign which led Walcott to resign. The full text is here: I think it's quite good. We're off to Conil on Friday; guessing at who wrote it will be an amusing game by the beach.

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