Simon Kövesi is a professor of English and Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow.
‘It was not very manly of you to evade telling me what you had been up to when we met today,’ the late Eric Robinson wrote to me on 10 July 1999. What I’d ‘been up to’ was editing and publishing a paperback edition of John Clare’s Love Poems with a small outfit in Bangkok.
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