SOURCE: Faherty, Michael. “Knowing Your Katholou from Your Hekasta: The Practical Poetics of Allen Curnow and Ezra Pound.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 31, no. 3 (July 2000): 53-74.

In the following essay, Faherty explores Ezra Pound's influence on Curnow, focusing on philosophical and poetic affinities between Pound's The Pisan Cantos and Curnow's “Do Not Touch the Exhibits” and “A Fellow Being.”

Even though Ezra Pound spent a dozen or so of the most energetic years of his life in London trying to slap some sense, and the occasional bit of nonsense, into English poetry, he left Britain almost as if he had never been there. This is not to say that he did not leave behind a disciple or two, but they remained as alien to the literary establishment in London and Oxbridge as Pound himself had been. There was, of course, Basil Bunting, Pound's handpicked successor, who...