KAPELL PLAYING MOZART
Sir,-"Myrrha’s" letter on the poem by Colin Newbury causes me to reflect, once agaiti, that your readers don’t like poetry: The: subject crops. up in correspondefice with some regularity-to express only dislike! I can’t recalla letter yet having reached print in four pages which expresses approval of a poem you have. published. You seem to print two kinds of, poem-that which arouses active dislike, and that which offetids no one. Do you think the fault lies with yourself, the reader, or the poets? Is "free speech" in New Zéaland only capable of expressing itself in terms. of "I know what I don’t like"? A solution may be to turn the poets’ cornér into a kind of request sessionor to reject future works by known poets and print the versifications of readers.
RECEIVER
Lower Hutt).
(there..is no.fault. It is quite usual for péople to ignore what does not interest them, to express pleasure privately, and to be angry publicly.-Ed. ) ¢
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 5
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161KAPELL PLAYING MOZART New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 5
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