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ENJOYED James Bertram’s selection from the Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Verse moré than any poetry programme for a long time. For one thing, it’s always a pleasure to listen to Mr. Bertram himself; for another, most of the poems he chose were particular favourites of my ownand I don’t mention that merely to praise his taste, or mine. Hearing a poem for the first time on the air you're often busy tfying to catch the sense to hear the sotind, or vice versa; but a memory of the poem helps you to absorb what only a voice can add to it. I thought hé gave a balanced view of the book, which is much more various, and at the same time and possibly for the same reason, rathet less powérful than Mr. Curnow’s anthology. The variety was splendidly shown by the readers. I had a few doubts-I thought the reader of M. K. Joseph’s Secular Litany took far too literally what Mr. Bertram said about the hate in it. But every reading had been individually thought out; and we got right away from the poetic drone. Except, possibly, with the younger writers, and that may have been because Mr. Bertram’s selection from them was moré monotonous than that part of the book réally is.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 30
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217ELEGANT EXTRACTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 30
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