I was talking to a Creative Writing student from a nearby university yesterday about his course. We were comparing poetry and I noticed a greater variety of styles in his than in my own. Puzzled and with the molten pangs of jealousy I asked him about this. Throughout his course he had been reading, “Poems for the Millenium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Vol: 2)” ed. by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris.

This book is now open on my desk and I can’t put it down. It covers so much that I wish I’d known throughout university.

You must own this book! My friend will have to prise his copy from my rigoured fingers…