NICHOLSON

(born 1934, Author) thanking him for sending him a copy of your poems... I've not yet read them all - though Andrew Young used to say that you should never thank anyone for a book until you'd read it! - but I've sampled enough to enjoy their precision and shapeliness, often indeed, elegance. They show, one again, Carcanet's sense for the real thing... I've visited Norfolk a number of times - the last, five years ago, in the Buxton-North Walsham area, on what was to be the last holiday with my wife. She fell ill just after our return, and died a year later, of cancer, so that East Anglia has a poignancy... which seems to suit its landscape... with a postscript about gatecrashing a party at George Macbeth's Old Vicarage with Anthony Thwaite, 2 sides oblong 8vo., 14 St George's Tce, Millon, 24th February