HW: Michael Moorcock (was The Quest for Levitation)

[J Strobridge]

Allan T Grohe Jr writes:

> > check...) I'd like to hear those cause the stuff he wrote for BOC are among
> > my favorite BOC tunes... and he's a damn good lyricist !
>
> The funny thing is, he doesn't consider himself a good poet:  he ranks
> lyrics and his various Wheldrake short poems as fakes--not real poems.
> I think some are rather good, though much of the printed poems are better
> than the material he did for HW and BOC.
>
> Hadn't we talked about doing an MM poetry book at some point (Jill??)?
>

Yes - I think we did!   The question I suspect was how much we could
disentangle as being definitely Moorcock from contamination by others.
And is some of his stuff still only on tapes - or are all his Hawkwind
contributions now officially issued?    Curse of Man is his isn't it?

Maybe we should just ask him direct.....

jill


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