poetandknowit17 Dec 2002

Actually, I think when you focus your images on what you know the poems are quite good. And even some of the political poems work - "The Left Book Club" etc. It is when you write overwhelmingly generic poems either designed to be reactionary or not that I think you wander off the path. But the poem where you are learning your father's language. That was good stuff as is the West Sands poem. You live in beautiful country and evoke it well, so those are the poems I find most compelling. And you like good films. So that is a plus. What or whom is the dissertation on?