One word says to its mate
Claire Harman: W.S. Graham, 4 October 2001
The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham
edited by Michael Snow and Margaret Snow.
Carcanet, 401 pp., £12.95, November 1999,1 85754 445 5 Show More
edited by Michael Snow and Margaret Snow.
Carcanet, 401 pp., £12.95, November 1999,
“... US and Canada were marked by depression and drunken bad behaviour. Graham’s asceticism and what Donald Davie called ‘the hieratic solemnity’ with which he took his own poetic vocation could be both romantic and manipulative. The editors of these letters tell us that when Graham moved from Gurnard’s Head in 1962, he simply walked out of the ... ”