[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford316","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford316","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Publisher, New Poetry","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford316","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford316.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n11 Oct 77\nreplied. 14th Oct\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 8th.\n\nAgree with you about the need for very\noccasional self-pity. Still on reduced diet\nbut it will prob take some weeks before my\nmasochism produces a fall in avoirdupois.\n\nNote what your say about Kimber\u2019s and hope\nyou get good news from them. Also yr idea for\na novella. Can understand you don\u2019t want to do\na hell of a lot of work without some initial\nencouragement from a publisher. That may be\nwhy poetry writing is more popular. However much\none works on a poem, the time/energy doesn\u2019t\ncompare with working on even a short book.\n\n|\nKay very kindly sent me x paperback and\nhardback copies of THEY. A most interesting\npiece xxxxof work. She of course took the hard way\nof full-time writing which must be enough to\ndrive even the well-balanced near to suicide.\nSo glad that things are now working out for her.\nPrize from S.E.Arts as well as simultaneous\npubn of the 2 edns. Let\u2019s hope reviewers are\nenthusiastic.\n\nJust been asked for permission to have my\n\"Fox Visits the New China\" read by an actor at\nMatchlight Poetry (\"Black Bull\" ,Fulham Rd.) on\nthis coming Thursday. Eileen Warren,who runs\nthis venture,saw xxthe poem in NEW POETRY. I\u2019ve\nbeen to one Matchlight evening and it had a\npacked house. She runs it in a different way xxx\nfrom most poetry readings \u2014 actors mainly do the\nreading and she has a duplicated programme.\n","Type":"Text"}}]