(Reviewed by Georges Perec)
This havy volum is a must for popl who lik potry.
Pom aftr pom, in a glorious fast of litratur.
Mmorabl simils and mtaphors ar vrywhr
whil fin rhyms and imags lap out from vry pag.
Grat poms ar faturd from th liks of Louis MacNic,
John Btjman, Hilair Blloc, T. S. Liot and Td Hughs.
Not forgtting Larkin’s favorit pot, Hardy, who has
twnty svn poms comprd to only nin by W. B. Yats.
This anthology, though havily criticzd by thos pots
who ar not includd, is likly to rmain a standard
work for many yars. My only quibbl is that Frnch
pots ar xcludd for rasons known only to th ditor.
French novelist, the late Georges Perec, published a 50,000-word novel, La Disparition (1969), entirely omitting the letter ‘e’.