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“... against these older generations, but he is not yet a strong enough poet to spurn their lessons. Colin Falck’s Memorabilia ranges over death, loss, love, children, poetry, travel, history, politics, the echoes of religion. He has a supple, resourceful line, conversational but able to encompass both the lyrical and the abstract. Like John Burnside, he ...”

“... In the past, I have been persuaded by those like Colin Falck who have thought Thom Gunn’s distinctive and great achievement was to have re-established creative connections with at least one aspect of Shakespeare, and with some of Shakespeare’s great contemporaries, notably Marlowe and Donne. Gunn, I believe, liked this notion, and Clive Wilmer endorses it in his excellent and too brief Introduction to The Occasions of Poetry ...”

“... I was the editor. We had a committee consisting of John Fuller, Francis Hope, Martin Dodsworth, Colin Falck, Michael Fried and Gabriel Pearson. We never had meetings or anything like that. There was a lot of correspondence, because John went to Buffalo for a year. So he wrote to me a lot from there. And Michael and ...”