I was taken aback when my suggestion that netsuke (miniature sculpture) has therapeutic properties was challenged by a counter-suggestion that poetry was the thing I most needed (Letters, May 1).
Still, I learned at my mother's knee (and sometimes across it) how perilous it is to disregard a determined woman's recommendations.
Consequently, I took the first available opportunity to visit Lidgett Grove School and buy myself a copy of John Nursey's Week-end In The Village.
The book is quite as delightful as Dorothy Marshall promised, and better than promised too, since the verse is illustrated a la Stevie Smith.
All is compressed into a mere 40 pages; a feat of craftsmanship which would surely have appealed to the netsuke masters themselves.
Poetry and sculpture; each has its place. I hope that those who set a good example in buying the one will not neglect to visit the other. After all, netsuke is the least one can do.
William Dixon Smith,
Welland Rise,
York.
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