Igenlode Wordsmith’s Reviews > Housman Country: Into the Heart of England > Status Update

"I thought his poems would be drivel about babies and flowers, but it's really good stuff about suicide" - a Morrissey fan :-p

"Two of the stanzas I do not say which, came into my head just as they are printed ... A third stanza came with a little coaxing after tea. One more was needed, but it did not come: I had to turn to and compose it myself, and that was a laborious business."