NEW ZEALAND ERN MALLEY
Sir,-I found the letters of "Specta-. tor" and "Observer" very disturbing. I am not a reader of poetry: apart from poems I cut and transcribe from periodicals I have been reading the same four poems for 20 years; but do find these four essential. I am not proud of this lack of poetic sense and religiously read modern poetry when it comes my way; I have even bought a volume occasionally. I suspect I have found a fifth poem in one of them. Now here I am trying to do my duty by modern poets. "Spectator" says we have an Ern Malley in our midst. Certainly "Observer," who can evidently read "Spectator’s" thoughts, denies the charge; but till the matter is cleared up
I shall certainly not read or buy a book of New Zealand poetry. What a risk! I might discover a sixth poem, only to find the author had written it with his tongue in his cheek.
CA CANNY
(Dunedin),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 5
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166NEW ZEALAND ERN MALLEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 5
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