[New-Poetry] Re: laureate

[Roger Day]

and Stephen Spender was the dupe in charge of Encounter at the time.

Yeah. I heard that about Blair. Morrison is another safe pair of
hands. Unlikely to be tricky in any way. Safe. Very safe.

Roger

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Bircumshaw
<david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > There's a wonderful story in Stonor Saunders book "Who pays the piper"
> > about Lowell (drunk of course) in an open-top car with driver
> > careering through the Buenos Aires night. Lowell is standing up giving
> > Nazi salutes and shouting nazi slogans.
> >
> > Lowell, like all the rest of the puppets, was paid through the
> > Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA front organisation. I believe
> > they paid off a UK mag as well.
> >
> >
>  The magazine was Encounter, Roger. They also used to sponsor the Australian
> magazine Quadrant to some extent. It's really hard to know what to make of
> all these things (Stephen Spender was involved in Encounter, Les Murray with
> Quadrant) except that clearly some of the Spooks have a taste for poetry.
>  With our current, very active, Laureate it is a matter of public record
> that Blair (favourite poem 'The Soldier') took 'a personal interest' in his
> appointment.
>
>  Best
>
>  Dave
>
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