“... sought a quiet perfection, which was remarkable at a time when her contemporaries like Lowell and Berryman were writing unending and imperfect sequences. But the tone of the third poem, in which Lowell had quoted from a letter, was strange, a dramatic, personal and highly-charged tone which had never entered into Bishop’s poetry; it suggested that Bishop ...”

“... contemporaneously. But the three officers connected with these documents – Vernon Attwell, John Donaldson and Thomas Style – had signed witness statements in December 1974 stating that the manuscript notes were contemporaneous, and they had repeated this on oath in the trial in 1975. If the rough typed notes were indeed a draft from which the ...”

“... poets often are. There was this competitiveness, this obsession with how he rated compared to Berryman. All that shit I couldn’t stand – and there was so much of it. Also I hated all the mania, because I’d been through all that for many many years, albeit at second hand.You didn’t need to go looking for yet more of it.Absolutely not. All in all he ...”