POEMS FOR U.S.A.
Sir,-I read with genuine alarm that A. R, D. Fairburn was proposing to hand over to Mr. Harold Vinal the best work of our women poets. Is there any assurance that America will not use these for her own ends? I know, from personal experience, that America does not recognise World Copyright. There are many in New Zealand who do not know this! After the abominable hash they have made of many of our beautiful old traditional songs and ballads we would do well to look ahead and safeguard ourselves; Has Mr. Fairburn read the latest American effort, i.e., the Bible in comic strip? Has he heard that glorious
Chopin’s Etude in G Minor swung overt the air and made into a cheap lovesong? I sincerely hope that af: ihe women poets are not strictly covered by a genuine assurance that we &re not to have our best work stolen;°mauled, or mutilated that our answer to Mr. Fairburn will be No.
VIVIENNE
DOWLING
(Timaru),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 431, 26 September 1947, Page 5
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167POEMS FOR U.S.A. New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 431, 26 September 1947, Page 5
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