Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 34, Number 15. August 4, 1971
John Hales Replies
John Hales Replies
1. | See my letter. |
2. | When I read through the volume some few poets stood out from the rest, either because they were different (Doyle, Brunton, List) or because they were doing the old thing in a better way (Smithyman, Wedde, Glover, Pasley). The poets mentioned in Alistair Campbell's letter have the same single characteristic: they were young. |
3. | This proves how out-of-date the volume is. |
4. | I did not intend it so. |
5. | James Baxter wrote three mediocre poems. |
6. | I was not a rejected contributor; I was not a contributor; I would have been rejected if I had been a contributor: I am not a poet; I have no intentions of becoming a poet; I am nothing but a poor anonymous public servant. |
Would you please correct your mistake and publish the name of the reviewer of Frank Mackay's "Poetry Yearbook"? I am presuming of course, that you would not accept, nor publish intentionally unsigned reviews.
Jack Lasenby