Of necessity, Hamilton became one of literature’s great hustlers, jingling with money knowhow… When the poet Craig Raine worked as books editor on Fridays, he once met a bailiff on the stairs who asked him if he was Ian Hamilton. Raine took him upstairs to the office and asked Ian Hamilton if he’d seen Ian Hamilton. “No,” Ian Hamilton said, “You just missed him.
Morten Høi Jensen, from his tribute to Ian Hamilton and The New Review.

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