Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Great Regulars: [Nick] Gammage recently elected to share

those illuminating memories of the poet by making available his letters which, says he, display the true character and personality of a generous human being with a "brilliant sense of humour and a twinkle in his eye" rather than that "dour private Yorkshireman" persona he'd adopted for the prying--and often hostile--eyes of the public.

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: News of Hughes

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