<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1977 Oct 11th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford316 Letter Publisher, New Poetry English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford316 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford316.jpg LHL Archive No. 27 P.C. 11 Oct 77 replied. 14th Oct My dear Derek, Thanks for yrs of 8th. Agree with you about the need for very occasional self-pity. Still on reduced diet but it will prob take some weeks before my masochism produces a fall in avoirdupois. Note what your say about Kimber’s and hope you get good news from them. Also yr idea for a novella. Can understand you don’t want to do a hell of a lot of work without some initial encouragement from a publisher. That may be why poetry writing is more popular. However much one works on a poem, the time/energy doesn’t compare with working on even a short book. | Kay very kindly sent me x paperback and hardback copies of THEY. A most interesting piece xxxxof work. She of course took the hard way of full-time writing which must be enough to drive even the well-balanced near to suicide. So glad that things are now working out for her. Prize from S.E.Arts as well as simultaneous pubn of the 2 edns. Let’s hope reviewers are enthusiastic. Just been asked for permission to have my "Fox Visits the New China" read by an actor at Matchlight Poetry ("Black Bull" ,Fulham Rd.) on this coming Thursday. Eileen Warren,who runs this venture,saw xxthe poem in NEW POETRY. I’ve been to one Matchlight evening and it had a packed house. She runs it in a different way xxx from most poetry readings — actors mainly do the reading and she has a duplicated programme. Text