| Could Beatrice write with Dante’s passion, Or Laura have glorified love’s pain? Women poets – I set the fashion . . . Lord, how to shut them up again! by Anna Akhmatova: 1960 |
Someday we may understand why the blatant copying of Ted Hughes’ & Heaney’s inspiration is acceptable to the Irish Poetry Editors who publish and award it as if it were something new ? |
Chris Murray 