On Poetry
HE most persuasive speaker I have heard for a long time is Enrica Garnier, who, discussed three English women poets from 4YA recently. With her slow, soft and exact speech, Miss Garnier radiates a charm that is almost hypnotic, "Just read poetry," she said, "don’t think, or analyse-just read it, and read it again." She approaches poetry in a spirit of humility. "You must remember that you are being presented with the results of someone’s living and labour. When you garden, you are prepared to turn more than one spadefulyou are prepared to dig and work and wait perhaps months. Why should you
expect to gather the harvest of poetry more easily than that?" The poets she discussed, with brief well-chosen extracts from their works, were Edith Sitwell, Kathleen Raine and Anne Ridler. Such a talk, lasting less than fifteen minutes, could be only the briefest of intreductions, but it was perfect of its
kind,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 10
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158On Poetry New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 10
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