HUNTING POETS
Sir,-I feel I must express my amazement at "Rustic’s" uncalled for attack on the superlative verse featured in this journal, Surely our budding poets need some encouragement, and if The Listener with its abundance of intellectual readers did not nobly undertake to supply’this, then who would? The first requirement in art is sincerity-what nonsense! That may have been so in earlier times, but standards have changed. It doesn’t require ang special ability or sincerity to write pgétry nowadays, Anyone can do it. Just choose a subject (any old theme will do, but the more incongruous, the better), worry it around for a while, dig deep into your
subconscious mind and eventually you'll come up with something totally incomprehensible to yourself or your readers -if any. The idea is not to reveal your feelings, but instead make them as abstruse as possible, I myself followed these instructions and in no time at all produced this effort:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 5
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157HUNTING POETS New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 5
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