Postbox



Following an initiative from Stephen Colley, an idea embraced by Bonchance and others, I open here my own Mailbox here for further discussion of reviews &c. But being a Brit., I call it a Postbox.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

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Lindsay George Hall

British born and brought up, classically educated.Apart from the Greek and Latin Classics, my special enthusiasms are English and German romantic poetry, but also (outwith that loop) the spare New Englander Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins. My own stuff here is largely 'retro', but I make no apology for that. Poetry, to be poetry, needs discipline.I am happy to review (or preview) poems by request (lindsayxix@gmail.com). more…

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