[New-Poetry] Fwd: Poem-a-Day: Ruth Padel's "Like Giving toaBlindMan Eyes"

Bob Grumman bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Sun Apr 5 13:14:25 EDT 2009


David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I strongly suspect she was somehow involved in interviews, 45 minute 
> radio programmes, soundbites etc, unless of course someone was 
> impersonating her.
Sure.  Was she demanding interviews?  Should she have turned them down 
unless no mention was made of her ancestry?  I sympathize as a member of 
the public, but blame it on the media much more than on the poet.

--Bob






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