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| | BLAND, Peter |
 | | BLAND, Peter (1934–), poet and actor, was in the 1950s–60s associated with James K. Baxter and Louis Johnson as ‘the Wellington Group’, together editing |
 | | Bland’s acute actor’s ear for timing, inflection and the accents of everyday life, brought into his verse the rhythms and diction of the country’s elusive vernacular, in counterpoint with the robust resonance of his native Yorkshire (‘For the rest of your life / there’ll be two sets of voices …’). |
 | | Bland’s clarity of meaning and realism of reference have always been subverted by his quirky obliqueness of viewpoint, his aphoristic, self-mocking wit and his taste for the surreal, as in several successful poems about children (‘House with Cat or Sun’, ‘Happy Army’). |
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