letters

The letter from Prynne, which I received 8 years ago now, was prompted by the question of what is order. Looking back and thinking about some recent poems by Sheppard in ‘litter’, I would think that it is exactly what the poet needed to know, to write the poem, and it’s exactly an expansion of that – into science etc. – which Prynne added to the art, which is by necessity an authentic expression of the poet, thereby vitalising language. This is the shadowy order or aura to collections like the white stones. I’m currently studying at the OU, writing about the science of natural beauty, but have no poems to add.