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Andrew Motion and Alan Hollinghurst: Essex Clay

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I Think It's a Breath Driven Thing, Perhaps?

You've evolved a new way of writing, which i'm sure must take some of its cues from american writers thom you've been yrye doing. There are british writers as well whoe exerted a strong influence on it. I was conscious when i finished writing it that david jones in parenthesis is probably in in the mix in summer. In fact, i really think of this poem is a sort of breath thing, perhaps. And so i took all the ation, now, except full stops. It seems to me that he's gong abon to something there, which i don't think that book quite manages to get hold of,. But i felt

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