Typed letter signed : Dublin, to Mr. Woods, 1957 June 1.

Concerning the recipient's proposal to publish a literary periodical and his request that Davie commit as a contributor; pledging to contribute to Woods's new magazine as long as he fulfills his promise to publish it regularly, as "magazines that appear 'occasionally' are just a waste of the contributors' time. Nine, Mandrake and Listen are just not in being as magazines ... I feel particularly sore about Listen, which I supported for as long as I could"; offering his observations on the state of contemporary poetry, stating that he no longer thinks of the future "in movement' names at all ... I can't see that Larkin can do more in the future than just repeat himself. (McCaig is a good honest poet, but a painfully ugly one) ... the poetry you should look for is a poetry that takes far more from the revolutionary generation than the Movement ever did"; mentioning Charles Tomlinson as "the only English poet to fulfill" the conditions he lays out for modern poetry, and recommending Marvin Mudrick as a literary critic, and concluding "No harm to have an American connection, all but indispensable for an English magazine nowadays."