further on Lee Harwood

For those interested there is a three-part post on Lee Harwood by Ian Brinton here.

And relating to this, here are a few lines from my long poem Crab & Winkle evidencing Lee's thoughtfulness: 

June 1958: The Hotel Wentley Poems

received in today’s post

from Lee Harwood. Who wouldn’t want

to have written these? In 1958,

year of the Little Chef,

so why am I &c.

                                 Buy underwear, socks,

Pan Am (the building) is a colossal

collection of minimums, so

Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Times, 1965

(relayed by Sebastian). But I am not American,

my poems contain no wild beestes, no

lady of the lake, I am

down the road (apiece) from the theatre

where crowds queued in 1963

for Cliff Richard’s Summer Holiday.