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Saturday, April 10, 2010

I Won't Let You Down

One of my favourite songs from the eighties, Ph.D's I Won't Let You Down was a Top 10 UK hit in April 1982, when I was a highly suggestible fifteen year old.

Thankfully, I'm still pretty suggestible. Just not fifteen anymore.

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Poetry Pleases! said...: Dear Jane

Congratulations on your Anker monument. (No money changed hands I presume!) Most poets are seeking immortality and you seem to have achieved it whilst still incarnate. I remove my battered beret in awe and reverence.

Best wishes from Simon; 1:07 PM, April 14, 2010
Poetry Pleases! said...: Dear Jane

Congratulations on your Anker monument. (No money changed hands I presume!) Most poets are seeking immortality and you seem to have achieved it whilst still incarnate. I remove my battered beret in awe and reverence.

Best wishes from Simon; 1:09 PM, April 14, 2010

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'Jane Holland's Boudicca & Co is a book of adventurous, resonant inventions. As the title suggests, it offers a new view from the interior - of both country and psyche - in which history and geography are co-opted in effortless interplay. It's a work of synthesis, and of poetic and emotional maturity, in which Holland emerges as a true craftswoman, a supple and graceful thinker with an effortless grasp of line, at the heart of the English lyric tradition.'

Fiona Sampson, Editor of Poetry Review

'... we need only compare Holland's work with the anti-war 'poetry' of Harold Pinter to gain some indication of how rich and rewarding her response to modern conflict is - by shifting methods towards the imaginative and narrative elements of poetry, rather than the rhetorical and political. In this sense, the 'Boudicca' sequence has a great deal in common with David Harsent's Legion, which represents a similar attempt by a non-combatant poet to engage intelligently with the realities of war. This is, frankly, an outstanding collection, and Holland, as a result, can now count herself amongst the front rank of contemporary British poets.'

Simon Turner, Gists and Piths, 2007

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I Won't Let You Down

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