The evidence of Souster's spontaneous writing method is on every page of [The Colour of the Times]. In fact it goes a good deal further than that. Poets who refuse to revise their work, on the ground that revision always sullies the spotlessness of the original poetic impulse, are common nowadays, but most are willing to correct errors in grammar or slips of the pen; at least they are in those cases where the errors are simply stupid and meaningless. Not Souster. Either he is not willing, or he refuses, for whatever reason, to look at the printer's proofs. How else can you account for the poem in which he speaks of the 'socketless eyes' of dead people when what he means is 'eyeless sockets'? In a poem called 'The Lovers' he mixes up the cases of his pronouns; in another poem he says 'sever' where he means...