36 Holland Park Mews, W.11.
4th Jan ‘74
My dear Derek,
Many thanks for yrs of 3rd.
Quite agree with yr assessment of Ewart. He really excels in sexy satirical-fantasy. A nice lad, too. And a kind of Hon. Ulsterman (Honest of otherwise) .
My friend in S.F. has sent me a big biography of Malcolm Lowry. What a boy! He out-Dylans D.T. in some ways: drink, violence, scrapes with the police. But it was all dispersed over several countries. Lowry seemed to be proving that anything a Celt could do an Englishman also could.
Glad you found the new Fox intriguing. The Captain is a dark horse indeed. Now since I last wrote I had a letter from one Peter Fallon who runs the Gallery Press in Dublin. I’d read about their books of poetry in the IRISH TIMES. I sent him 12 Fox poems plus about 20 others (almost all written in the last 2 or 3 yrs). Back they all came with expression of deep regret, partly because of commitments and
