Poets in Versi

Mr Patrick Sammut (The Sunday Times, May 1) took me to task about a snide remark I made in my review of Versi, which was not aimed at him. I know very well that in Versi he has to relate poets with the selected theme but, strangely enough, whatever the theme, what matters is how this influences the same handful of poets!

And this is what makes these poets 'privileged', to the detriment of so many other worthy poets who have been, and still are, deliberately or otherwise, ignored in curricular poetry text-books (not in Versi!).

Mr Sammut also concluded (quite rashly) that I was annoyed by the fact that my name did not feature among the 'privileged'. Why should I be? As he very rightly stated, whenever possible he gave me my due, for which I renew my heartfelt thanks, although I never really cared into which category I fell.

But Mr Sammut will surely agree with me that there are 'privileged' and 'unprivileged' poets. He knows very well how the 'privileged' ones hold the Ghaqda Poeti Maltin in the highest esteem, not to mention their almost awesome reverence towards Versi!

This is understandable; Versi never lets them down!