In the Graveyard of Verse
William Wootten: Vernon Watkins, 9 August 2001
“... of a poet who had inspired them by exhortation and example. With Dylan Thomas dead, it was left to George Barker, that other bad boy-genius of New Romanticism, to add a dash of tastelessness to the proceedings: How she must have horrified you there at the far side of the tennis net the coldblooded female who killed you with her first glance. What on ... ”