"DIVIDING SEAS"
Sir,-I_ would like to cry "bravissimo" to Rita. Atkinson, after reading her letter (Listener, October 24). I completely agree with her. I lately read as much as I could of a New Zealand anthology of verse, and my comment on most of it was "God help us, is that the best we can do!" As to prose, what can be wrong with young or youngish writers in this new, brave, and lovely land who must write of the sordid and the ugly? If it is "realism" they seek, is not happiness and goodness real, too? Perhaps it was the "smell" that took That Summer to France-rotten ensilage. Well, well-let us have some "new mown hay." We might like it better in this country and some good wind might waft it across the Tasman. :
P. R.
MILLS
(Eli Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 15
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140"DIVIDING SEAS" New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 15
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